521 sats \ 6 replies \ @art 26 Jan \ on: AMA with PlebLab's Top Builder teams! AMA
From the point of view of product building, how are you embedding rapid iteration and user testing to validate ideas prior to release?
This probably depends on the product.
I needed Branta, so I was the first customer.
There was a total void of Antivirus-esq products focused on guarding my stack. Custodying Bitcoin on a consumer computer/laptop is risky. Moreso if you are building software on Bitcoin Core, playing with TOR, configs, etc. From there, I wanted my family to have Branta. And my friends, and so on.
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Good question! I've spent the last 2 years building the education app I wish I had when I was being orange-pilled back in 2020. Now that Jippi has a prototype MVP on TestFlight, we're opening up a waitlist to get our beta app in front of users. We'll then test our assumptions/hypothesis to see what works and doesn't work, then we'll iterate quickly on features until we get the engagement we want. Lots of analytics and speaking to users!
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It's such an interesting paradox.
The profession (product/ UX) screams "YOU ARE NOT YOUR USER. SPEAK TO USERS."
And then some of the best products out there are because the builder solved a problem that they most needed to see solved. Though many would argue that it's more the builder has deep empathy for the needs of others, recursively though solving their own problems - like Steve Jobs.
Anyway - how big's the team? What's your North Star metric at this beta phase?
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Exactly, two opposing frameworks that produce varying degrees of great results.
I've always been more into the Steve Jobs/Henry Ford model of "customers don't know what they want until you show them".
At the moment we're a team of two, myself (software engineer & product), then my co-founder (operations). We're looking to find a third (software engineer), so if you know of anyone, do let us know! We'll be building a team next and going for funding.