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If you’re building a similar type of product, Ofstad’s advice is to keep the feedback loop extremely tight and loosen your expectations around what your MVP “should” look like. “We'd sit down with our customers to see what they were using the product for. With horizontal products, you build this very generic thing and the cool part is seeing how... See more
First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
How Product Market Fit evolves in horizontal products
Wordle’s virality is engineered:
First, the app doesn’t have any barrier to entry. You simply go to the web page and can immediately play. No need to sign-up.
Second, the game is easy to pick up. It has a minimal set of rules.
Third, users get a quick feedback loop. You try one word and immediately know if you’re on or off track. The whole game might... See more
First, the app doesn’t have any barrier to entry. You simply go to the web page and can immediately play. No need to sign-up.
Second, the game is easy to pick up. It has a minimal set of rules.
Third, users get a quick feedback loop. You try one word and immediately know if you’re on or off track. The whole game might... See more
A framework for usage based pricing
When your back is against the wall, galvanise the team with an super goal
Streak Wager A/B Test
Our team wanted to make the streak even more motivating. We hypothesized that getting learners to explicitly challenge themselves to maintain a streak would make them more likely to work toward one. We ran an A/B test where we surfaced a “Streak Wager” store item at the end of a lesson and asked learners if they wanted to spend... See more
Our team wanted to make the streak even more motivating. We hypothesized that getting learners to explicitly challenge themselves to maintain a streak would make them more likely to work toward one. We ran an A/B test where we surfaced a “Streak Wager” store item at the end of a lesson and asked learners if they wanted to spend... See more
How Streaks keep Duolingo learners committed to their language goals
Duolingo
I’m not sure I could advise an early-stage company to hire a full-stack, multiperson content marketing team in 2024. I might advise them to hire an editorial team or a multimedia team, but not a team to solely focus on SEO content.
Kevan Lee • 517. Do people still SEO? 🐸
The 7 (+2) sections of the perfect SaaS homepage (incl. template)
Alexander Estner • The Perfect Homepage for Early-stage SaaS companies: Free Template + Examples + Tips
Back in the day, we at Airtable were kind of roasted on Twitter for our billboards, which weren't super specific about a particular problem; they were just there. Everyone was questioning the sense in it, wondering why we would do this if it wasn't clear. However, those billboards were actually super effective for us, but for a different reason
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