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Seems related to the vitamins and painkillers analogy. Is the product a vitamin or painkiller? The latter people have a need and will pay for. The former is nic
by Rastonbury 4y ago
Seems related to the vitamins and painkillers analogy. Is the product a vitamin or painkiller? The latter people have a need and will pay for. The former is nice but not nice enough to pay for. That said that kind of comment seems a bit dismissive. If these are "features", share what you'd envision the full product to be.
Maybe share some things you've shelved, are they tackling thing that are adjacent to core business problems?
- seanhunter 4y agoThat's a manifestly bad analogy and reasoning from it is very unlikely to lead to any sort of helpful conclusions. People very obviously do pay for both vitamins and painkillers.
- whoomp12342 4y agopeople do pay for vitamins, but very few buy a vitamin because they NEED it. They buy it because it sounds like a good idea to get healthy. People buy pain killers because they have a very serious problem to solve directly affecting their QOL.
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- iansanew 4y agovitamins have product market fit with people who are deficient in vitamins or anxious those 2 groups probably 'need' it
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- Rastonbury 4y agoYou need to assess willingness to pay, people will more likely pay for something they need than something they want. You obviously won't market a tech product or SaaS like a vitamin or painkiller, but its much harder trying to convince someone (let alone a company) to buy something they want vs something they need, whether sales led discussion or online conversion