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 features more often impairs growth.
Nikita Biertwitter.comIf 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 features more often impairs growth.
If your product is not quite selling, there are 2 ways you can go: make it more comprehensive (add features to complete the value prop) or make it sharper (focus on a single feature that provides a wedge into the market). Either can work; sharp strategies tend to be under-rated.
David Sacksx.comAs you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success
What's the right approach to new products? Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else.