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… Show more
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… Show more
People look at great product teams and assume they win because they are faster at shipping, but the reality is that they are just ruthless about cutting scope especially in the early days.
You don't have to be an amazing engineer to cut scope by half and go twice as fast.
As 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: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Forcing yourself to have a “one feature in, one feature out” guideline will help you develop your product with a bias toward simplicity. While simplicity benefits your newest customers and the majority of your current customers, it also benefits your own process to grow your product and solve problems as they arise.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
Instead, teams are often better to focus on basics, like figuring out the right target market, and creating the initial product features. You need to nail the killer product, and prove that you can gain an atomic network, before reaching for the financial lever.