Topics tagged product

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
“I Don’t Think You Can Have a Great Product Unless It’s Freemium” and Other Notes on Growing in an Established SaaS Category with Loops’ Co-Founder, Chris Frantz Heuristics and Hunches crowded-markets , freemium , product	0	98	April 19, 2024
The Power of Intuitive Tech, “Juicing It” as a Usage (and Joy) Driver, and Other Notes on Shaping a Disciplined-Yet-Freeing Product Path with Arcade’s Co-Founder, Caroline Clark Heuristics and Hunches freemium , goal-setting , founders-self , product	2	242	April 18, 2024
“Sharing Our Experiences, Wins, and Lessons is Also Humbling. It Keeps Us Honest,” and Other Notes on Building a Customer-First, Bootstrapped Business with Canny’s Co-Founder, Sarah Hum Heuristics and Hunches culture , bootstrapping , product , operating-principles , pmf	0	376	February 9, 2024
Why the Lean Startup Approach Doesn't Work (as Often), Why PMF Surveys (Alone) Aren’t That Helpful, and Other Notes on Building Opinionated Software with June’s Co-Founder, Enzo Avigo Heuristics and Hunches product-led-growth , positioning , customer-research , product , pmf	2	651	January 26, 2024
“How Moving Away from Per-User Pricing Helped us 4X our Growth, Why We Were Moving Back, and Why We Won’t (For Now)” with Tability’s Co-Founder, Sten Pittet Heuristics and Hunches product , categories , pricing	12	1388	January 11, 2024
How Atlassian Began in a Niche, Laddering to Scale, and Lessons from 2 Decades of Building for Development Teams with Released’s Co-Founder, Jens Schumacher Heuristics and Hunches dev-tools , product , niches	2	737	October 25, 2023
The Necessity and (Unceasing) Magic of Doing Thousands of User Onboarding Calls with Vimcal’s Co-Founder, John Li Heuristics and Hunches user-onboarding , freemium , product , retention	0	375	October 6, 2023
The Trouble with Building too Close to User Love, Why PLG Requires Balancing 4 Different Roadmaps, and Other Earnest Notes from Winding Down a Startup with Kairn’s Co-Founder, Patricia Bernasconi Heuristics and Hunches pivots , product-led-growth , pmf , founders-self , product	1	390	October 3, 2023
How Early Adopters Don’t Have to be Ideal Customers, Founder-Done Customer Support as a Growth Strategy, and Other Notes on Building with Reasonable Ambition with Missive’s Co-Founder, Philippe-Antoine Lehoux Heuristics and Hunches early-stage-growth , founders-self , bootstrapping , product	2	478	September 28, 2023
“It’s Tempting to Start Selling Something We’d Build 6 Months Down the Line” and Other Notes on Early Validation with Alphadoc’s Co-Founder, Job Rietbergen Heuristics and Hunches product-led-growth , customer-research , product , idea-validation	2	513	September 25, 2023
Prioritizing Engineering Momentum over Accurate Timelines and Building on the Merits of a Car When Users Might Want Faster Horses with Compose’s Co-Founder, Rami Kalai Heuristics and Hunches competitive-markets , metrics , operating-principles , pmf , product	2	427	July 4, 2023
Why “Move Fast and Break Things” is Outdated Advice, Prioritizing Quality and Speed, and Crossing 15K Users with Jam’s Co-Founder, Dani Grant Heuristics and Hunches pmf , product , operating-principles	2	739	April 28, 2023
“It Takes a Lot of Listening Up-Front” and Other Must-Dos of Placing Community at the Core of Building and Selling with Harlow’s Co-Founder, Samantha Anderl Heuristics and Hunches community , customer-feedback , product , operating-principles	2	796	April 11, 2023
“In B2B, Don’t Just Know Your TAM, Ask How Many Users Will Likely Become Experts” and Other Essential Reminders with Dragonboat’s Founder, Becky Flint Heuristics and Hunches product , pmf , operating-principles	1	816	March 7, 2023
PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap - what Data Driven Product Development actually looks like What Am I Missing product , operating-principles	3	693	February 14, 2023
The Mechanics of Commercializing and Scaling an AI-First, B2B Startup with Thematic’s Co-Founder, Alyona Medelyan Heuristics and Hunches ai , mvp , product , pmf , capital-efficiency	2	985	November 21, 2022
Evolving the Many-Sided Levers of Positioning and Expansion with Slite’s Co-Founder, Christophe Pasquier Heuristics and Hunches product-led-growth , positioning , product , competitive-markets	2	937	November 7, 2022
Aiming for a "Won-and-Done" Category, Acquiring a Newsletter before Making the Product Public, and The Merits of Being Async-First with Loops’ Co-Founder, Chris Frantz Heuristics and Hunches crowded-markets , product , operating-principles , async , working-remotely	2	780	October 19, 2022
Why You Shouldn’t Build for an Obviously Large Market, and Other Notes on Creating a “Default Possible” Startup with Pulley’s Co-Founder, Yin Wu Heuristics and Hunches product , hiring , gtm , fundraising	1	844	September 23, 2022
The Why Behind 78 Pre-Product User Interviews, The Difference Between Pitching and Research, and Why MVPs Don’t Work Anymore with Cord’s Co-Founder, Nimrod Priell Heuristics and Hunches customer-research , product , mvp	2	1457	September 11, 2022
(Calmly) Competing Against HubSpot and Mailchimp as a One-Person Team with Bento’s Founder, Jesse Hanley Heuristics and Hunches product , operating-principles , bootstrapping , founders-self	4	1577	June 27, 2022
“How We Deleted a 1/3rd of Our Product and Made it 10x Better” with Arrows’ co-founder, Daniel Zarick Heuristics and Hunches product , operating-principles , customer-centricity	4	1717	June 22, 2022
Why You Don’t Need to be “Enterprise-Ready” or “Scalable” as Yet and Other Notes on Crafting B2B Software with Contenda’s Founder, Lilly Chen Heuristics and Hunches engineering , product , scaling , culture , enterprise	3	19879	May 26, 2022
Setting Up Engineering for Growth: The Workflows and Culture That Drove 1500% YoY Growth with Tara AI’s Co-Founder, Iba Masood Heuristics and Hunches operating-principles , product , growth , engineering	3	2801	April 27, 2022
Reexamining the Revered Superhuman Onboarding, and Other Product-First Lessons in Scaling SaaS with Sunsama’s Founder, Ashutosh Priyadarshy Heuristics and Hunches operating-principles , product , pricing , founders-self	2	1716	April 25, 2022
Choosing the Kano Model over the RICE Framework and Other Discoveries in “Building for User Love” with Scribe’s Co-Founder, Jennifer Smith Heuristics and Hunches operating-principles , product , customer-centricity	2	827	April 11, 2022
“Think of Bootstrapping as a Tool, Not as a Way of Life” and Other Perceptive Observations On Transitioning to the VC Path with MagicBell’s Co-Founder, Hana Mohan Heuristics and Hunches growth , product , bootstrapping , fundraising , founders-self	3	2127	April 7, 2022
The Cadence 🥁: Finding Focus, Priority, and Rhythm on the Road to PMF with folk’s Co-Founder, Simo Lemhandez Heuristics and Hunches pmf , operating-principles , product	2	1006	April 5, 2022
I’m Rich Waldron, Founder and CEO of Tray.io. AMA! AMAs past-guests , founders-self , operating-principles , product , mid-market , expansion	25	2858	March 2, 2022
I'm Hubert Palan, Co-founder and CEO of Productboard. AMA! 👋 AMAs past-guests , pmf , customer-centricity , product , fundraising , founders-self	25	5347	September 16, 2021