How to build great products (2013)
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How to build great products (2013)
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Re: How to build great products (2013)
#2Whatever you do, make sure to get the basics right:
- Good UI - Fast UI - Good performance and if this is not possible, keep the UI responsive and give Feedback to the user
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#3Community is also key. it will either make it or break it.
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#4Community is also key. it will either make it or break it.
Thousands of successful commercial products have no communities to speak of.
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#5- First figure out if the market needs it. This is the biggest reason why products fail https://www.getautopsy.com/
- Asset economic viability i.e. you must be able to recover the cost.
- Ability to build and nurture a solid team that can deliver a product of reasonable quality and robustness.
- Find who your end-customer and paying customer is and whether this problem is light or hard in their head. Accordingly curate the right messaging for the product for marketing purpose.
- Ensure that there are no legal challenges.
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#6Community is also key. it will either make it or break it.
Thousands of successful commercial products have no communities to speak of.
Yea, community is relatively new phenomenon in software at least the way it is down now. Traditionally its something curated and orchestrated via sales and product managers, events,seminars, 1:1 meetings or sometimes small coherts of similar clients. There is still value in this versus newer forms of community.
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#7The iPhone example is frankly laughable. Try selling a smartphone without copy/paste and with subpar vocal quality if you're not Apple. People will throw it in your face.
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#8Building a great product should almost never be the goal, people don't buy a product because it is great, people don't use a product because it is great.
People buy a product because they are forced to buy it and people use a product because they love it.
This is the biggest mistake people make in product management, is to forget the customer
> it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great product
this is so wrong
edit : funny that the guy behind the article created only one company (rethinkdb) which failed because they didn't find a business model
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#9Building a great product should almost never be the goal, people don't buy a product because it is great, people don't use a product because it is great. People buy a product because they are forced to buy it and people use a product because they love it. This is the biggest mistake people make in product management, is to forget the customer > it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great produc…
to put in different words, we all start using a product because we need it, and we are willing to put up with not great design and lack of features.
Usually is that product that does one thing that you need, later on you might fall in love with it.
I agree is not the other way around where you try to make something people will fall in love, that's why I think "scratch you own itch" is such a great advice.
Re: How to build great products (2013)
#10Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6457801