O uso de CMSs na construção de MVPs

Abstract

Early-stage startups need to collect costumer opinions about the offered solution in a short time stamp, so they can adapt to the high competitiveness of the market. In that context, Minimum Valuable Products (MVP’s) are created to present the proposed solution and collect opinions from the consumer market in a practical way. This article proposes the use of CMS‘s (Content Management Systems) to build software MVP’s. As a case-of-study, the Directus, an open-source CMS, was picked as the tool to build an application that automates database backups. Over the development phase, it is demonstrated how the tool was adapted in order to build the application, taking advantage of the high level of customization from CMS’s. As a discussion, the work suggests the use of these tools only for data-driven applications, focused on analysis and management of data and events, citing the impossibility of using CMSs in the construction of game or streaming applications, for example. Then, this work concludes that CMS’s can be considered options to facilitate the software development process.