I am working on a project for my GA product management class & wanted to post here and ask for feedback. Thanks in advance!
Who is your customer?
• People with side project ideas who are looking for others to collaborate with in an area of shared interest
• Professionals who have free time outside of their full-time jobs and are interested in spending some of it collaborating on side projects they feel passionate about with others.
• Also, current undergrad/grad students or recent alums who are looking to gain experience while they are either studying or job hunting.
What is the problem you are solving?
• People are not always 100% fulfilled in their current jobs and would be interested in working on something outside of them.
• People would like to hone existing skills, develop new skills and have impact in an area they are interested in on the side.
• People with side projects don’t have resources/desire to hire full-time team for the side projects (or some aspects of them) and would be interested in driving the project to completion with part-time collaborators.
What are your assumptions?
• Working professionals have enough entrepreneurial/tinkering drive to want to spend some of their free time on side projects
• If there was a platform to facilitate matching between side project ideators/PM’s and professionals with skills to contribute, both sides would use it
• Solutions currently on the market don’t address all potential demand – github libraries, stackoverflow, co-founder dating sites, etc.
• Both sides would be comfortable with pro-bono nature (in some cases equity) of side projects instead deriving satisfaction primarily from shared interest in/passion for idea/vertical/problem
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• People with ideas for side projects post side projects, problems they solve and skills required for collaborators
• People with skills to contribute browse by projects, problems or skills and reach out to authors of ideas they find compelling enough
I am working on a project for my GA product management class & wanted to post here and ask for feedback. Thanks in advance!
Who is your customer? • People with side project ideas who are looking for others to collaborate with in an area of shared interest • Professionals who have free time outside of their full-time jobs and are interested in spending some of it collaborating on side projects they feel passionate about with others. • Also, current undergrad/grad students or recent alums who are looking to gain experience while they are either studying or job hunting.
What is the problem you are solving? • People are not always 100% fulfilled in their current jobs and would be interested in working on something outside of them. • People would like to hone existing skills, develop new skills and have impact in an area they are interested in on the side. • People with side projects don’t have resources/desire to hire full-time team for the side projects (or some aspects of them) and would be interested in driving the project to completion with part-time collaborators.
What are your assumptions? • Working professionals have enough entrepreneurial/tinkering drive to want to spend some of their free time on side projects • If there was a platform to facilitate matching between side project ideators/PM’s and professionals with skills to contribute, both sides would use it • Solutions currently on the market don’t address all potential demand – github libraries, stackoverflow, co-founder dating sites, etc. • Both sides would be comfortable with pro-bono nature (in some cases equity) of side projects instead deriving satisfaction primarily from shared interest in/passion for idea/vertical/problem
UI • People with ideas for side projects post side projects, problems they solve and skills required for collaborators • People with skills to contribute browse by projects, problems or skills and reach out to authors of ideas they find compelling enough