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“My product went viral but it may not be offering the value I think it does so I blame the users for it”
by dogma1138 2y ago
“My product went viral but it may not be offering the value I think it does so I blame the users for it”
- esafak 2y agoYou don't know that. There is such a thing as an unqualified lead.
- PaulHoule 2y agoAlso the phenomenon that the first people who get on board are better (smarter, whatever) than the later people who get on board. See also: Product Hunt
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoWe would know if we had a link. Otherwise it’s fiction and I believe it’s yet another lame web site created by an ideas guy.
- layer8 2y agoThat’s not what the article says.
- Y444 2y agoI believe it does: "Turns out your product wasn’t ready for all the international users. Or the power users. Or the teens. They want to use your product in all the wrong ways, posting bad and weird things." It is basically in line with the infamous "You're holding it wrong".
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- layer8 2y agoThe article’s conclusion is that businesses shouldn’t chase big app launches or “going viral”, because that tends to not be valuable for the business, and that instead they should go for gradual, slow growth. In other words, the article doesn’t blame the users, it blames businesses using the wrong strategy.
- Y444 2y agoFor me personally this conclusion doesn't mean much, as the author bases it on his single experience with his app that by his own wasn't really ready for real world.
- layer8 2y agoI don’t necessarily agree with the article’s conclusion. I’m saying that the article’s point isn’t to blame users, it’s to give advice to businesses about how to avoid that failure mode.
- dogma1138 2y agoThat’s not the articles conclusion, it’s the excuse. Yes slow steady growth is a generic “good advice” but overall if the product was ready and provided value to the users they would have used the product. A conclusion would be don’t ship a half baked product… And definitely don’t blame users for not liking your product, not understanding it, not being open to it at the time etc… The users are always right and even if they are technically wrong it is still the fault of the product designer for not accounting for that in the first place. “We do not blame users, ever.” is about as close to a prime directive as you can get regardless of what product or service you deliver.
- Pooge 2y agoTiming is one of the most important part of the market. You could make a truly great product far too early and nobody would use it and you would get bankrupt. Then someone else would come with something, perhaps even worse, at the right time and cash out.