If you can't explain your app in fewer than 5 words, do you think your users will ever bother telling anyone about the app?
Before you have product-market fit, product development is not about "adding features"—but distilling a product to a simple marketable sentence. Adding… Show more
If you can't explain your app in fewer than 5 words, do you think your users will ever bother telling anyone about the app? Before you have product-market fit, product development is not about "adding features"—but distilling a product to a simple marketable sentence. Adding… Show more
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
Britt Gage added
The hard part is not deciding which features to add; it’s deciding which to leave out. Focus on what’s important and truly useful, and keep things simple and accessible for all.
Debra Kaye • Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation
The most important features for a product are usually the ones that were built first. Once you get past a certain level of functionality, a lot of the new functionality on the roadmap often targets just a subset of users (e.g. power users) or supports use cases that are adjacent to the core use cases. So it’s a safer bet that you’ll drive more busi... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
sari and added
We have a core feature offering that is very strong. A small feature idea comes up that serves a subset of the market, but it isn’t too hard to do and it isn’t a bad thing, so we indulge. Repeat that thought process a hundred times and you have a cluttered UI, a large team, a slow product, and no obvious path forward.
Andrew Bosworth • Focus
Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Impact over refinement
When building something, focus on truly creating an impact before releasing and refining it.
Then, consider focusing on other impactful work before refining your prior releases.
Here is a simple test to see if you're building something impactful: Can you write a blog post about what you're releasing and how it will change your ... See more
When building something, focus on truly creating an impact before releasing and refining it.
Then, consider focusing on other impactful work before refining your prior releases.
Here is a simple test to see if you're building something impactful: Can you write a blog post about what you're releasing and how it will change your ... See more
Impact manifesto
sari added
You don’t need a better performing product to gain market share. Focus on improving a few features and start catering to an early niche. Iterate and improve as you grow.
Imad El Fay • You don’t need a better product to succeed in D2C
sari added
- Since it’s hard to choose, many entrepreneurs try to please everyone. This is the best way to please no one. If you want to make a strong impact on someone, build a product that solves their exact problem, not “everyone’s problem”.
Medium • How to build a Community that loves you
Jordan Bester added