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How to build great products | defmacroYou need to know exactly who your user is, what their problems are, how they perceive your product, and who helps them make buying decisions.
How to build great products | defmacrolearn about the history of the space, the state of the technology, the opinions of potential users, and the direction of your competition
How to build great products | defmacroIf a gamechanging feature doesn’t absolutely blow people away, it’s not much of a gamechanger — it’s just a distraction. In this category you can’t go half way.
How to build great products | defmacroModeling product management in terms of the three categories is extremely valuable because it allows you to treat product management as a resource allocation problem.
How to build great products | defmacrowrite down a product mission. Think of it as a function that accepts a given feature as an argument, and returns one of the three categories above. A good function definition is concise, understandable, and repeatable. Ideally after reading it, most people on your team will be able to categorize features themselves in the same way you would. Here is a humorous product mission we came up with for RethinkDB that worked surprisingly well: Database tools should be indistinguishable from magic Surprise and amaze people with developer tools for building real-time, data-driven web applications they c…
How to build great products | defmacroThe best way to get a sense of taste in a given space is to inject yourself into the industry and talk to as many people as you can.
How to build great products | defmacroThe best way to build this intuition is to talk to a lot of people.
How to build great products | defmacroEmpirically, few disruptive products are good at a dozen things. Shipping gamechanging features is hard. Three is probably the most you can get away with, and even that is a stretch.
How to build great products | defmacro