The most important lesson I’ve learned for developing new products:
You don’t have to be the first person to come up with a product idea.
In fact, that will rarely be the case.
But you can almost always make an existing idea better.... See more
Jeff Morris Jr.twitter.comThe most important lesson I’ve learned for developing new products: You don’t have to be the first person to come up with a product idea. In fact, that will rarely be the case. But you can almost always make an existing idea better. And that’s when you get the big wins.
I used to think startups need innovation to succeed. But take a product everyone dislikes today and transform it for tomorrow's users.
Few examples:
- Email → @Superhuman / @resend / @loops
- Issue tracking → @linear
- Startup banking → @mercury / @brexHQ
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Thomas Paul Mannx.com
It's easier to innovate when you're the original of something. People copying you can only copy a snapshot of your current state. They don't know which aspects of the snapshot are essential and which are random things you'd been about to change anyway.
Paul Grahamx.com