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Michael, how do you avoid deluding yourself into thinking that you DO have a market fit when you actually do not?
by ryanmercer 8y ago
Michael, how do you avoid deluding yourself into thinking that you DO have a market fit when you actually do not?
- shawn 8y agoUser count. Put a big LED on your wall right above your monitor with your weekly active users in the last 7 days. Any time it goes up, play a bing noise. Eventually you'll pavlov yourself into liking that sound.
- Zalastax 8y agoChasing those numbers can be a fools game. I've seen money going down the drain because stakeholders wanted to stroke their egos. Instead of staying lean, and since there was money in the company to burn, a big sum was spent on ads to keep new users pouring in. It was a horrible sight.
- nopinsight 8y agoSome combination of retention rate and user count, with a heavier weight on retention, looks more optimal for long-term viability. Daily or weekly meetings on the ‘scores’ sound like a good idea.
- mwseibel 8y agoI tried to help with this question in this blog post: https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-real-product-market-fit/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-real-product-market-fit/