The Startup Playbook: Insights from Y Combinator
Episode 2: How to Build Products Users Love?
- Building products that users love starts with a deep understanding of your usersโ needs.
- Conduct user research early and consistently to ensure you
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1. Live in the future โ Think ahead of your time
2. Find whatโs missing in the world
3. Write it do
There are basically two ways to build great products.
Identify a problem.
Build a pitch deck.
Start pitching to the investors.
Hire a bunch of professionals.
Launch the best product in 6 months.
Run full-blown paid campaigns and acquire users.
Only
Here are 5 ways to quickly validate your startup idea ๐ก:
๐ Start a Discussion - Pose your concept on relevant forums to gauge interest and feedback. Pay attention to questions asked to refine your value proposition.
๐ Targeted Surveys - Poll y
No one needs innovation that is not useful.
Innovation is seen as building it inside-out like an artist, but building outside-in is much more optimized way how most of the great products have built in the past.
Naval's quote of building it right an