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
Six micro-SaaS ideas sourced from real user pain points
Rob Walling
January 21, 2024
Customer discovery
8
Business models
7
Niche selection
6
Real complaints in public forums are the best micro-SaaS prospecting tool.
Six specific gaps: from hierarchical knowledge bases to Salesforce onboarding.
Deprecated features and platform blind spots signal low-competition opportunities.
Product-market fit
Podcast
Product-market fit, introvert sales, and hiring at Signwell
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 16, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Resilience & grit
6
Product-market fit resets for every new segment and use case you enter.
Introverts can close big deals — reframe sales as a puzzle, not a chore.
Being picky enough to reach candidate 15 is a real hiring differentiator.
Product-market fit
YouTube
Building a profitable online course around a core transformation
Sunny Lenarduzzi
January 9, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Content marketing
8
Niche selection
7
Googleable courses fail — urgency and specificity determine price
Start with the outcome, reverse-engineer your ideal client
Application-only sales filters out wrong-fit clients before they damage your brand
Product-market fit
YouTube
Key metrics for consumer startups: growth, retention, and NPS
Y Combinator
January 6, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Retention & loyalty
8
Unit economics
7
Organic growth via viral loops compounds forever; paid ads stop working instantly
Negative unit economics at scale burns capital fast — fix before scaling
NPS below +50 means your product needs rethinking before you grow
Customer discovery
YouTube
Seven SaaS ideas worth building before they go mainstream
Rob Walling
December 24, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Niche selection
7
Client portals and support tools inside existing platforms are underserved markets
No-code ecosystems still lack version control and automated testing
Feature request boards are a repeatable source of validated SaaS ideas
Customer discovery
Podcast
How great product managers earn trust and build things people love
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 21, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Delegation
8
Product-market fit
6
Why most PM hatred is really a competence problem, not a culture one
Reference customers are the fastest path to product-market fit
Promote people by letting them practice the role before they hold the title
Customer discovery
Podcast
Five SaaS lessons: onboarding, free users, pricing, research, and rules
Startups For the Rest of Us
December 19, 2023
Customer discovery
8
Pricing strategy
8
Business models
6
Free users prove nothing — a paying customer is the only real signal.
Mirror research: assuming your preferences match your customers' is a costly trap.
Learn SaaS rules of thumb before deciding which ones to break.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How Figma's CPO thinks about product, design, and building things people love
EO
December 15, 2023
Product-market fit
9
Vision & mission
7
Communication
5
A PM's core job is storytelling, not shipping features
Ask 'why' five times before building what users request
The best products come from teams proud of their work, not metrics
Iteration & feedback loops
Podcast
What product leaders and founders learn from their biggest failures
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 13, 2023
Iteration & feedback loops
9
Post-mortems
8
Management
6
Trust must be earned before driving change — not assumed from authority.
Excess funding can trigger irrational arms races that destroy companies.
Inconclusive experiments that can't be killed waste years of team effort.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to pre-sell an online course before building it
Sunny Lenarduzzi
December 12, 2023
MVP & prototyping
9
Closing techniques
8
Sell your course first — building blind wastes years of effort
Client interviews hand-deliver the curriculum you should build
25 conversations at 20% conversion rate nets your first $5,000
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to start a SaaS business with under $5K using no-code tools
Brett Malinowski
December 11, 2023
MVP & prototyping
9
No-code & low-code
8
Business models
7
Validate with a Figma prototype before writing a single line of code
Digital dropshipping: rebrand existing templates and sell with zero engineering
Raising VC too late locks you into a losing position with golden handcuffs
Product-market fit
YouTube
Why launching many SaaS products hoping one sticks is a mistake
Rob Walling
December 10, 2023
Product-market fit
9
Resilience & grit
7
Launching many products for luck skips the learning that builds real skill.
Most products need 6–24 months of post-launch iteration to reach product-market fit.
Grinding through uncertainty is what turns founders into repeatable operators.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How to build a profitable micro SaaS product from scratch
TK Kader
December 10, 2023
Product-market fit
9
Niche selection
8
Growth hacking
6
Why launching a full SaaS platform from day one almost always fails
$30/month is the minimum price that proves you've solved a real problem
Organic leads plus an upsell tier create a self-funding growth loop
The full-stack PM: frameworks for product strategy and leadership
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 7, 2023
Roadmapping
9
Business models
8
Management
7
New users are lazy, vain, and selfish — design onboarding accordingly
Write three divergent PR FAQs before committing to any direction
The 4BB framework turns resource allocation into a strategy conversation
How to build and communicate a compelling product vision
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 3, 2023
Roadmapping
9
Customer discovery
7
Culture building
6
Most PMs skip vision entirely — here's the full framework.
Clarity on the problem beats any roadmap or strategy deck.
Evangelise in three circles: team, stakeholders, then leadership.