1. Talk to people until you find a problem with a solution that you can build that people will pay you for.
2. Build the smallest unit of product that can solve that problem. It doesn’t have to be scalable, it doesn’t have to be perfect or complete, but it needs to solve the problem.
3. Sell it to one or more customers who have the problem you can solve. Don’t build more until you have a sale, and ideally you should have one or more pre-sales.
4. Talk to your customers for feedback. Figure out which suggests are general and which are customer-specific. Build the general suggestions first if necessary. Otherwise, sell more.
5. Rinse and repeat.
If you are solo, expect to spend the vast majority of your time talking to customers and making sales. Product is not the time sink.
1. Talk to people until you find a problem with a solution that you can build that people will pay you for.
2. Build the smallest unit of product that can solve that problem. It doesn’t have to be scalable, it doesn’t have to be perfect or complete, but it needs to solve the problem.
3. Sell it to one or more customers who have the problem you can solve. Don’t build more until you have a sale, and ideally you should have one or more pre-sales.
4. Talk to your customers for feedback. Figure out which suggests are general and which are customer-specific. Build the general suggestions first if necessary. Otherwise, sell more.
5. Rinse and repeat.
If you are solo, expect to spend the vast majority of your time talking to customers and making sales. Product is not the time sink.