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Jason Leow
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@cat Thanks for the mention!! ๐
@jasonleow You're welcome! ๐ป I'm on a not-so-secret mission to get all active WIP members and my own community members to join.
Oh WOW ๐คฉ You're the best, Cat! Can't thank you enough for that ๐ Let's go! What can I do to help with that?
Affiliate programme?
Oh dear, so sorry to hear this Luke!! That sucks
I think @marc had done this with some success before, for Betalist
I use Substack for personal. I think Beehiiv is a good option. For business, marketing email, I heard many good things about Convertkit.
Hey @cat , I got a Carrd plugin here that's a standalone code snippet for a button that sprays confetti. Can imagine you can just copy-paste the code into a code embed element in Squarespace
I made this free typerwriter effect plugin for Carrd sites, but could probably work for yours too as it's a standalone code snippet, with just html and css, no javascript. Any web builder platform that supports a code emded would work.
I kinda lead this double life too, one as a consultant for corporates, and the other, as indie solopreneur. I just use my real name, and focus on different platforms for different work. LinkedIn for corporate consulting, Twitter for indie. There's little confusion because the audience on each platform are different
I see. So more generative research than evaluative research. That's great! I think it's good to do more generative research at the beginning especially, when still looking for product-market fit. Some questions could be:
- how do you do X now? What are your current workflows and work-around, what current apps do you use (not your app)?
- how much time do you usually spend on these workflows?
- where are the bottlenecks and painpoints based on your experience?
- where are the points where it's easy and fast?
- were there situations in the past when a painpoint for the workflow got so frustrating you decided to pay for a solution? Tell me more...
- how much did you pay for the tools/apps?
- how did you go about comparing between competing apps? (to find out their mental models rer: pricing)
- in a perfect world, what would an ideal app for this workflow do?
Remember to ask for their direct experiences, not opinions.
Thanks @jasonleow , these questions are gold!
We will make sure of asking them on the interviews ๐
Maybe firstly could be to try to define your objectives for the interviews, as time with them is pretty short. To test the UI for usability issues? Or to understand their broader needs/painpoints to find opportunities for features? Because the questions and activities are different
Hey @jasonleow, thanks for that one. I think the main objective for now would be the second one, "to understand their broader needs/painpoints to find opportunities for features".
For now we ask something like "How would you achieve X" and see how they use the platform and work on top of that.
However, there are probably better questions to ask and flows ๐ค
Could you suggest me some? ๐
I see. So more generative research than evaluative research. That's great! I think it's good to do more generative research at the beginning especially, when still looking for product-market fit. Some questions could be:
- how do you do X now? What are your current workflows and work-around, what current apps do you use (not your app)?
- how much time do you usually spend on these workflows?
- where are the bottlenecks and painpoints based on your experience?
- where are the points where it's easy and fast?
- were there situations in the past when a painpoint for the workflow got so frustrating you decided to pay for a solution? Tell me more...
- how much did you pay for the tools/apps?
- how did you go about comparing between competing apps? (to find out their mental models rer: pricing)
- in a perfect world, what would an ideal app for this workflow do?
Remember to ask for their direct experiences, not opinions.
Thanks @jasonleow , these questions are gold!
We will make sure of asking them on the interviews ๐
A simpler version could be simply being able to toggle public vs private to-dos. Public view setting by default, but if someone wants to hide specific to-dos, they can. No 100% private to-dos since that defeats the purpose of being in WIP.
An expansion could be the same settings but for entire projects (great if a project is still in early days stealth)
Oh WOW ๐คฉ You're the best, Cat! Can't thank you enough for that ๐ Let's go! What can I do to help with that?
Affiliate programme?
An affiliate program would be amazing if it's not too much effort on your part! ๐ป
Oh, thats a great idea!
Will do! Will prioritize!