Product
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Content about building, testing, and iterating on a product or service offering. The primary focus is the *thing being built* — what it is, how to test it, and how to improve it based on what you learn.
Showing 318 articles for Product.
Customer discovery
YouTube
How a disposable camera app hit $20K/month in 83 days
Starter Story
May 10, 2026
Customer discovery
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Resilience & grit
5
Refuse to write code until strangers commit to using your product
A 5-step playbook took Once from zero to $20K in 83 days
AI tools make building too easy — skipping validation is now the real trap
Product-market fit
Podcast
Agency over skills: how AI is reshaping product teams
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
May 3, 2026
Product-market fit
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Business models
6
Agency — not skills — is the real differentiator in the AI era.
Great products have one tiny core superpower; adding more features never works.
The first 10% of any project is now free; the last 10% is still 90% of the work.
How Stripe redesigned its homepage after six years
Y Combinator
April 22, 2026
Design thinking
9
AI tools & automation
6
Why Stripe waited six years — then spent over a year redesigning
Bento layouts beat scrolly sections for lean-back product discovery
AI accelerates exploration but cannot replace craft or taste
Customer discovery
YouTube
The old rules of SaaS still win in the AI era
Rob Walling
April 12, 2026
Customer discovery
9
Retention & loyalty
8
Pivoting
6
AI native SaaS apps average 40% retention vs 90%+ for traditional
Scraping Reddit is homework avoidance, not real customer research
Ideas are now cheap — execution and persistence still win
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How a SaaS founder built and monetised a side project without distraction
TK Kader
April 5, 2026
MVP & prototyping
9
AI tools & automation
7
Business models
6
Strict self-imposed rules kept a side project from killing the main business
Vibe coding with zero founder commits shipped a revenue-generating product
Services businesses can add a software revenue line without hiring or VC
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How Caleb Dean built and sold a fitness app in 26 days of revenue
Superwall
March 9, 2026
MVP & prototyping
9
Niche selection
7
Growth hacking
7
90 people paid $5 for an app that didn't exist yet
App Store pre-orders seeded 3,000 users before a single real launch
26 days of revenue was enough to close a six-figure acquisition
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Three tests to validate an AI-built automation before you build it
Dylan Davis
March 3, 2026
MVP & prototyping
8
AI tools & automation
7
Processes & SOPs
5
AI planning tools make plans that look great but collapse in execution.
Test the hardest AI task manually before building anything else.
Downgrade to a cheaper model early — costs compound at scale.
Iteration & feedback loops
YouTube
How Flame built 50% day-30 retention and 150k users from TikTok
Superwall
February 16, 2026
Iteration & feedback loops
9
Growth hacking
9
Automation & tools
6
Flame's day-30 retention beat TikTok by making partner happiness the habit trigger
The VSC framework: viral content that doesn't convert installs is wasted effort
200 AI-generated videos per day across 30 accounts — volume beats creativity
Iteration & feedback loops
YouTube
Paywall design lessons from 4,500 app experiments
Superwall
February 8, 2026
Iteration & feedback loops
9
Conversion rate optimisation
8
Pricing strategy
6
No single paywall works everywhere — always start with a simple baseline
Design and packaging lift conversions more than price changes ever will
A three-step exit flow extracts more revenue before offering a discount
Product-market fit
Podcast
Diagnosing stalled product growth with five key questions
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 25, 2026
Product-market fit
9
Business models
6
Growth hacking
5
Five diagnostic questions reveal why product growth stalls: churn, pricing, saturation, fit, necessity.
Raising prices signals credibility; most founders never adjust from their initial wrong guess.
Growth isn't about new features—it's about finding untapped channels and winning positioning.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How a solo founder built a $20K/month Christian app in six months
Starter Story
January 18, 2026
MVP & prototyping
9
Growth hacking
9
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Built and shipped a complete app in three days using AI tools
Rebuilding onboarding tripled conversion before spending a dollar on ads
TikTok Spark ads on one UGC creator dropped cost per trial to $3
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Three profitable AI SaaS ideas to build in 2026
TK Kader
January 18, 2026
MVP & prototyping
8
Niche selection
7
Pricing strategy
6
Bad ideas kill AI products, not bad code — the idea is the product.
A Gmail negotiation coach can price at $30–$99/month because it drives commission.
Mid-market ICP builder: turn CRM data into scored leads and shifting trend reports.
Product-market fit
YouTube
Achieving product market fit before scaling your business
Daniel Priestley
January 16, 2026
Product-market fit
10
Customer discovery
9
Growth hacking
6
Scale before product market fit is wasted effort — order matters.
Three surveys reveal exactly who your best customers are and why.
Gold/silver/bronze offer tested on 30 people proves or kills fit.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How to build a product that achieves product-market fit from day one
EO
January 14, 2026
Product-market fit
9
Customer discovery
8
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Granola had PMF on day one — and took six months to notice.
Cut 50% of your product before launch while you still can.
Ignore all positive user feedback; only act on clear problems.
Customer discovery
YouTube
How to find your first users with a minimum evolvable product
Y Combinator
January 14, 2026
Customer discovery
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Product-market fit
7
Finding first users is a search problem, not a persuasion problem
Paying customers give sharper, faster feedback than free users
Early adopters shape your product's entire evolutionary path