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Lenny Rachitsky on X: "My biggest takeaways from @mschoening: 1. Great products have one tiny core that is exceptionally good. iPhone is multitouch. GitHub is the pull request. Figma is real-time collaboration. Dropbox was a menu bar sync icon. Notion is blocks and slash commands. Max’s failed startup" / X

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Premium Profile More Post Malik Piara @casapiara Post See new posts Conversation Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan My biggest takeaways from @mschoening : 1. Great products have one tiny core that is exceptionally good. iPhone is multitouch. GitHub is the pull request. Figma is real-time collaboration. Dropbox was a menu bar sync icon. Notion is blocks and slash commands. Max’s failed startup in 2014 spent years polishing the editing experience, and it never worked. Meanwhile, Notion's first editor was terrible. But it didn't matter because the core was right. The biggest pitfall is thinking "if I just add one more feature, it'll finally be great." That never works. 2. Taste is a virtual machine in your head that predicts how your target audience will react. To build taste, you need reps. For designers specifically, the ones with the highest taste both build

My biggest takeaways from @mschoening : 1. Great products have one tiny core that is exceptionally good. iPhone is multitouch. GitHub is the pull request. Figma is real-time collaboration. Dropbox was a menu bar sync icon. Notion is blocks and slash commands. Max’s failed startup in 2014 spent years polishing the editing experience, and it never worked. Meanwhile, Notion's first editor was terrible. But it didn't matter because the core was right. The biggest pitfall is thinking "if I just add one more feature, it'll finally be great." That never works. 2. Taste is a virtual machine in…

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