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Crafting The First Mile Of Product
What founders have a hard time grasping (and Steve himself might have had a hard time grasping) is what insanely great morphs into as you roll the time slider back to the first couple months of a startup's life. It's not the product that should be insanely great, but the experience of being your user. The product is just one component of that. For ... See more
Paul Graham • Do Things that Don't Scale
When you’re an early stage startup, your most important job is to get clarity on what you’re building. When your product is buggy and low quality and the first mile of the product is ignored (the welcome/tour, the onboarding, the explanatory copy, the empty states), you won’t know if the poor retention numbers are due to a bad product or a bad mark... See more
Things I'm thinking about
Underlying all of this is the hard‐learned lessons of product teams that many of the ideas won't work as we hope and those that could work will typically take several iterations to get to the point where they move the needle enough to be considered a business success.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
Tony Fadell • 10 highlights
goodreads.comThe success or failure of a product is less about the technology and more the user’s experience of the technology. Be sure to find, keep, compensate, and celebrate those that are pushing the world of UX/UI forward. In the world of web services, design can no longer be outsourced or relegated to a department. As interfaces become companies, d
... See moreScott Belsky • The Interface Layer: Where Design Commoditizes Tech
More and more, I have lost conviction that “minimum viable products” make sense for product development.
It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it.
Instead, founders should have a fundamental belief about what people want—and they should keep itera... See more