Topics tagged product

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Dropping Per-Seat Pricing after 14 Years, Creating a Customer-First Usage-Based Model, and Reckoning with an AI-Catalyzed Innovator’s Dilemma with Help Scout’s Nick Francis Heuristics and Hunches customer-centricity , ai , pricing , product , pmf	0	24	April 18, 2025
Building an AI-Native CRM, Designing Human-in-The-Loop Workflows, and How "Customers Vote with Their Wallets" on Pricing Models with folk's Simo Lemhandez Heuristics and Hunches ai , product , pmf	0	24	April 12, 2025
AI-Native PMF #2: Differentiating Against Generic AI Tools, Lessons on Value and Margins from Three Pricing Model Evolutions, and Strong Hunches on AI-Native Building with Sudowrite’s Amit Gupta Heuristics and Hunches ai-native , product , pmf	0	91	April 7, 2025
"I Psyoped Sam Parr" - BTS Notes on Winning Big Logos Early, Building in an Era When "SaaS Has Been Picked Over," and Why Community Is the Growth Channel of the Future with River's Co-Founder, Rae Lambert Heuristics and Hunches ai , operating-principles , product , pmf	0	65	March 7, 2025
AI-Native PMF #1: Question Base — AI's “Very Real” Cold Start Problem, Managing High-Stakes Hallucinations, and Balancing Adoption and Costs with a Freemium Strategy Heuristics and Hunches pricing , product , pmf , ai-native	0	275	February 7, 2025
“The State of the Market Matters More Than Its Size” and Other Notes From Building for an Always-Under-Pressure ICP with Goldcast’s Co-Founder, Palash Soni Heuristics and Hunches positioning , niches , product , pmf	3	130	October 7, 2024
Niching as a Learning Tool, Prioritizing Teams over Users, and Building at The Intersection of Technology and Culture with Flat’s Co-Founder, Seth Purcell Heuristics and Hunches niches , design , product , pmf	1	88	October 5, 2024
“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	1	611	May 13, 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	554	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	610	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	922	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	1594	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	993	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	527	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	605	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	709	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	742	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	552	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	888	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	858	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	912	March 7, 2023
PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap - what Data Driven Product Development actually looks like What Am I Missing product , operating-principles	3	811	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	1158	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	1018	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	851	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	965	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	1614	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	1677	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	1800	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	20146	May 26, 2022