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In the creativity bucket, there's also a fair amount of inspiration from: 1. Studying other products and reasoning about them. 2. Conceptually dissecting mult
by dpandey 10y ago
In the creativity bucket, there's also a fair amount of inspiration from:
1. Studying other products and reasoning about them.
2. Conceptually dissecting multiple existing products and looking at different combinations of some subset of their components.
Any thoughts?
PS: Loved your essay
- mwseibel 10y agoYes, one of our YC partner Dalton Caldwell hammered this idea in my mind. He told me that when he sees a founder trying to attack a product that other have either failed or succeeded at - he looks for what they've learned from those folks. If the founder dismisses previous attempts to solve this problem or similar ones - that is a very bad sign.
- dpandey 10y agoReally enjoyed your piece on product dev cycle fundamentals: http://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/product-development-cycle-fundamentals http://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/product-development-cycle-... Just curious growth wise, did Socialcam have a lot of word of mouth, or was some growth hacking involved as well. 16 million downloads in 3 months is incredible.
- davnn 10y agoThinking from first principles. Sometimes starting the other way around might be helpful - not seeking inspiration but defining the essence of your value proposition and starting from there. We often tend to develop horseless carriages.