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What's a problem you think people tolerate simply because they've gotten used to it?
โThat's just how we do itโ is an interesting sentence.
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One of the best ways to understand a market is to look at what people are already paying for.
Not what they say they might pay for.
What they actually spend money on.
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Building teaches you to become comfortable with unfinished things.
The product is unfinished.
The strategy is unfinished.
You are definitely unfinished.
Ship anyway.
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What's one feature you think deserves to be much simpler than it currently is?
There are probably a lot of good answers to this one.
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The easiest customer to understand isn't always the loudest one.
Sometimes the useful signal is the quiet pattern appearing across several customers.
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A product doesn't have to eliminate all friction.
Some friction is necessary.
The trick is knowing which friction protects the experience and which friction is just leftover baggage.
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What's something you only started appreciating after you had to build it yourself?
Being on the other side of the product changes how you see a lot of things.
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There's a strange point in building where fixing one problem creates three smaller ones.
That's not necessarily a sign you're going backwards.
Sometimes it means you're finally working on something real.
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A good onboarding flow doesn't teach users everything.
It gets them to the first useful moment quickly.
The rest can come later.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
What's a problem you think people tolerate simply because they've gotten used to it?
โThat's just how we do itโ is an interesting sentence.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
One thing I've stopped worrying about as much:
Whether every decision looks impressive from the outside.
The customer doesn't care how impressive the decision was. They care whether the result helps.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Sometimes the best product insight comes from watching someone use your product completely differently than you expected.
You built the workflow.
They built their own.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
There's a big difference between making a feature possible and making it discoverable.
If users don't know something exists, technically having it doesn't help much.
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What's a product you would genuinely miss if it disappeared tomorrow?
Not your favorite product.
The one that would actually create a problem for you.
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Hasham Shafiq retweeted
I've become much more interested in boring improvements.
Saving 30 seconds isn't exciting.
Saving 30 seconds every day for two years is a different story.
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A founder's assumptions are often invisible until something contradicts them.
That's why real users are so useful.
They don't know what you assumed. They just behave.
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