Product Development

Product development here is the craft of deciding what to build and testing whether it works, as it appears in saved founder threads:

• Nikita Bier, after ten years of building consumer social apps: “A reproducible testing process is more valuable than any one idea,” and “Nothing slows down teams more than inconclusive tests.” (After 10 Years of Building… (tweet))
• Dylan Field argues Support “isn’t a cost center, but rather a key partner to marketing, product and engineering,” and that new features at Figma start by talking with Support and looking at tickets. ((1-11) Reflecting on Customer Support… (tweet))
• Brenden Mulligan ran a bootstrapped studio that released 10 products, of which one worked well. (I Ran a Bootstrapped Product… (tweet))
• A thread on understanding users, built on The Mom Test, lists ways users “lie to you if you’re not careful.” (✨ Dusting Off My Old… (tweet))

Where this appears

• After 10 Years of Building… (tweet)
• (1-11) Reflecting on Customer Support… (tweet)
• I Ran a Bootstrapped Product… (tweet)
• ✨ Dusting Off My Old… (tweet)
• The Mom Test
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