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The Lean Startup MVP Checklist That Lives In Your Co-Founder WhatsApp

Drop one link in the founding team chat — the lean startup MVP checklist covers problem interviews, the smoke test, the MVP build, launch day, and the first 10 paying customers. One wapin, no SaaS subscription.

Every first-time founder hears the same advice: 'just follow the lean startup playbook.' The trouble is the playbook lives in a $40 book, the tracker lives in a Notion paywall, and the co-founder updates live in 200-message WhatsApp threads nobody can search. This lean startup MVP checklist combo wapin replaces all three. Your lean startup MVP checklist is one shareable WhatsApp link with the full Eric-Ries-style sequence pre-filled: 20 problem interviews using the Mom Test, the smoke-test landing page, the build–measure–learn MVP, launch day, and the first 10 paying customers tracked by name. The countdown block puts a date on launch so it stops slipping. The scoreboard tracks every customer who pays. The poll runs the weekly pivot-or-persevere vote so the founding team decides with data, not feelings. The split-money block tracks the burn — every founder logs every dollar the same day. As a lean startup MVP checklist it survives in WhatsApp the way a Notion doc never does, because every co-founder is already in the chat. Run the lean startup MVP checklist once and the next idea will start the same way, because the lean startup MVP checklist is the only template that holds the whole company on a single link.

Sample Lean Startup MVP Checklist

5 apps · all in one link
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Lean startup MVP checklist — full sequence
Checklist
Phase 1 — write the 1-sentence problem statement
Phase 1 — list 20 people in the target segment to interview
Phase 1 — run interview #1 (Mom Test: ask about past behavior, never future)
Phase 1 — complete 20 interviews, log notes on the lean startup MVP checklist
Phase 2 — build the smoke-test landing page (1 hero, 1 CTA, 1 reserve button)
Phase 2 — run $200 of paid traffic for 7 days, measure CTR + reserve rate
Phase 2 — interview every reservation lead (5+ confirms 'real signal')
Phase 3 — scope MVP to ONE core action the user will pay for
Phase 3 — write the 1-page MVP spec (in scope / out of scope)
Phase 3 — set the 30-day MVP build deadline on the countdown
Phase 4 — launch private beta to 10 reservation leads
Phase 4 — close 5 of them as paying customers in week 1
Phase 5 — weekly pivot-or-persevere call on the lean startup MVP checklist
Phase 5 — track first 10 customers by name on the scoreboard
Phase 5 — log founder burn-rate in the split-money block every Friday
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MVP launch day on the lean startup MVP checklist
Countdown
Countdown
104Days
17Hours
28Min
08Sec
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First 10 paying customers — lean startup MVP checklist
Scoreboard
Scoreboard🏆
Highest first
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Customer 1 — closed
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Customer 2 — closed
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1
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Customer 3 — closed
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1
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#4
Customer 4 — open
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0
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#5
Customer 5 — open
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0
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#6
Customer 6 — open
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0
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#7
Customer 7 — open
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0
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#8
Customer 8 — open
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0
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#9
Customer 9 — open
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#10
Customer 10 — open
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Weekly pivot-or-persevere vote on the lean startup MVP checklist
Poll
Poll31 votes
Persevere — keep building, signal is strong12 (39%)
EmmaLiamSofia+9
Pivot the customer segment — same problem, new audience8 (26%)
NoahAva+5
Pivot the product — same audience, new solution5 (16%)
JamesMiaOliver+2
Zoom in — one feature is the whole product3 (10%)
Zoom out — the feature is too small, expand scope2 (6%)
Kill — signal is dead, return the funds1 (3%)
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Founder burn-rate — lean startup MVP checklist
Split money
Split Money$920.00
Participants
Founder 1Founder 2Founder 3
Domain + Vercel + email (12 months)$240.00
Paid by Founder 1 · Split evenly
Smoke-test paid traffic (Google + Meta)$200.00
Paid by Founder 2 · Split evenly
Stripe + accounting + legal templates$480.00
Paid by Founder 1 · Split evenly
Summary
Founder 1$720.00
Founder 2$200.00
Founder 3$0.00
PaidFair share
Settle up (2 payments)
Founder 3Founder 1
$306.67
Send via WhatsApp
Founder 2Founder 1
$106.67
Send via WhatsApp

How it works

Step 1

Create

Go to wapins.com and create your lean startup mvp checklist. It takes 5 seconds — no signup, no email.

Step 2

Pin

Copy the short link and paste it in a WhatsApp chat with yourself. Pin that chat. Done.

Step 3

Use

Tap the link anytime to view or edit. Check off items, add notes — it all stays synced.

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