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Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit
I am building a product for improving developer efficiency and I am 2 months into it and have a working prototype, how do I get feedback from the right users who are in need of such a tool? What are your suggestions?
- akarshhegde18 4mo agoSuggestions of any subreddit communities where I can spend time on?
- posterity 4mo ago[dead]
- akarshhegde18 4mo agoThis is really cool, did you get to know about this conversation from your tool?
- posterity 4mo agoI did find this thread from the tool yeah
- vedant_getbags 4mo agowhat was this?? can you share please??
- akarshhegde18 4mo agoThis is the repo: https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie
- akarshhegde18 4mo agoI will try this out, thanks! Starring the repo
- akerl_ 4mo agoHow did you decide what to build without knowing who you’d be building it for?
- akarshhegde18 4mo agoI started off by solving the issue that I was facing as a tech lead working with 15 people in my team, not everyone was performing at their best and thought this could solve the issue. Now I want to get similar developers who are facing this issue. I know the problem is real but the right people need to know that this product exists
- mmarian 4mo agoIn that case the answer lies within you (such a movie quote!). More seriously, did you apply the solution to your job? Did it work? Did you look for solutions when you had the problem? Where did you look? Where do you usually spend time online or IRL? etc etc
- akarshhegde18 4mo agoThat’s a good point. I did deploy an early version for my team of developers, and it helped me understand what each one was working on without constant status updates. It also surfaced context that was usually lost across Slack and meetings. The challenge now is that I’m only one data point. I’m trying to figure out whether this pain is common enough outside my own team, and if so, who feels it the most—engineering managers, tech leads, or someone even outside tech (like finance or something). When I had this problem, I mostly looked for better engineering analytics and developer productivity tools, but nothing really gave me how work was actually happening. That’s the hypothesis I’m trying to validate now. Let me know if you know of ways to reach these kind of audience that might potentially use this product
- akerl_ 4mo agoIt seems impossible that you know the problem is real but don’t know who the right people are to tell about it.
- tommypham 4mo ago[flagged]
- lemonademan 4mo agoYou could try ProductHunt, or you could show the Hacker News for feedback.
- rishabhpoddar 4mo agoFor most people, they never get any feedback from these platforms anymore.. there are just SO MANY PH and HN launches everyday.. that unless you pay some big PH hunter, or are a part of YC (for HN launch help), your post will just get ignored.
- sepehramirkiaee 4mo ago[flagged]
- JimsonYang 4mo agoDo you happen to be in SF? If you are-I bet you can stand on the streets of SOMA with a sign asking for feedback
- akarshhegde18 4mo agoNot in SF, so no SOMA sign for me. I'll just keep yelling into Reddit and hope the algorithm mistakes it for foot traffic.