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Ask HN: What do you do to receive honest feedback for your products?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you do to receive honest feedback for your products?

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Not trying to clever here but you’re missing a letter in the most interesting word. Is what you run an invester’s club, or an inventor’s club?

Inventors'! https://www.kingstoninvents.com/

Sweet! And thank you for the syntax correction

Re: Ask HN: What do you do to receive honest feedback for your products?

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I’ve noticed that asking leading _negative_ questions opens up people a lot. Me: “The lights are too bright, right?” (Hardware product) User: “No they are fine but I wish the display was larger.” I think questioning like this makes user comfortable criticising you.

It’s interesting that you picked up on this. I tweeted about it https://twitter.com/chamILYAn/status/1379140215407747073

Re: Ask HN: What do you do to receive honest feedback for your products?

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I’ve noticed that asking leading _negative_ questions opens up people a lot. Me: “The lights are too bright, right?” (Hardware product) User: “No they are fine but I wish the display was larger.” I think questioning like this makes user comfortable criticising you.

That's a brilliant tactic! May I ask where/how you learned it?

I’m very disagreeable and judging in my temperament by nature so it’s natural for me.

Unfortunately it also means I can seldom enjoy anything and other people find me annoying. :/

Re: Ask HN: What do you do to receive honest feedback for your products?

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I’ve noticed that asking leading _negative_ questions opens up people a lot. Me: “The lights are too bright, right?” (Hardware product) User: “No they are fine but I wish the display was larger.” I think questioning like this makes user comfortable criticising you.

I've been doing this for a while now. Good thing is, my audience is developers, so the feedback is detailed whenever I point something out to start a conversation. The next step is to just differentiate between actual feedback and opinions that are intertwined in so much of the information the user could pass to you haha.

I remedy this by quantity; I say the same thing to multiple users and listen attentively to the feedback. If enough people say the same thing (usually >2) then I know it’s something there that needs fixing.
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