The answer is somewhere in the middle. If you aren’t the end user, asking them these questions doesn’t help. Simply because you aren’t the end user. You thin

The answer is somewhere in the middle. If you aren’t the end user, asking them these questions doesn’t help. Simply because you aren’t the end user. You thinking that you know what the end user wants is the same as the founder not talking to end users. In that case, you aren’t helping one bit. It is the same as a bunch of founders sitting around judging each other’s product. How does that help? These questions need to be asked by the end user. They are the people ultimately using the product. Only they can say whether it is something they want to use.