Product
About this category
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.
Product-market fit
Podcast
How to build minimum lovable products and grow as a PM
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 2, 2023
Product-market fit
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Management
6
Do five things excellently beats fifteen things adequately — always
Airbnb Plus failed because inspections never had workable unit economics
Treat trust as a bank account: deposit before you push for change
Product-market fit
YouTube
Five principles for building software products customers pay for
Dan Martell
June 19, 2023
Product-market fit
9
Roadmapping
8
Without a written product vision, teams pull in opposite directions.
Cross-functional pods let companies ship hundreds of times per day.
Ignore the HIPPO — customer data beats the highest-paid opinion.
Customer discovery
YouTube
Seven high-potential app ideas for developers seeking wealth
Rob Walling
June 18, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Niche selection
7
A Stripe-like fix for broken bank-connectivity APIs could be enormous
Real operators waste hundreds of hours yearly on problems no software solves
AI makes several of these ideas buildable now — but validation comes first
Customer discovery
Podcast
How to find your best-fit SaaS customers using customer-led growth
Startups For the Rest of Us
June 13, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Growth hacking
6
Retention & loyalty
5
Funnels tell you what happened — customer interviews reveal why.
Start with happily paying customers; churn interviews come later.
Customer job statements align your whole team around a shared understanding.
Customer discovery
YouTube
How to pre-sell an online course and generate $200K with no audience
Sunny Lenarduzzi
June 6, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
MVP & prototyping
7
33 clients enrolled before the course was built
A 61-person list beat mass audiences — relationship beats reach
Price on outcome value, not time or content volume
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
10 things to know before creating an online course that sells
Sunny Lenarduzzi
May 23, 2023
MVP & prototyping
9
Growth hacking
7
Testimonials & social proof
6
Validate and pre-sell before building a single lesson.
Social proof scales a course faster than any marketing spend.
Paid ads won't fix an offer that can't sell organically.
Customer discovery
Podcast
Scott Belsky on product sense, AI, and building through the messy middle
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
May 18, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Resilience & grit
7
Founder interviews
6
Why the first 30 seconds of any product define everything
Kill features ruthlessly — Behance grew every time it removed something
Use conviction, not calendar, to decide when to quit
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to productize a service: five steps from idea to first sale
Layla at ProcessDriven
May 12, 2023
MVP & prototyping
9
Closing techniques
7
Sell the result, not the hours — buyers want outcomes, not time.
Validate demand before building landing pages, logos, or systems.
Start pricing at mid-market; raise it as delivery earns confidence.
Customer discovery
YouTube
What founders learn by genuinely caring about their customers
Y Combinator
April 28, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Case studies
6
Caring about customers unlocks insights no survey or report can
Airbnb's notebook goldmine came from accepting a coffee invitation
Twitch's pivot began with the CEO calling streamers one by one
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to build a SaaS product without coding skills
Dan Martell
April 24, 2023
MVP & prototyping
9
Customer discovery
7
Bootstrapping
5
Get customers to pay before writing a single line of code
Never let developers design your product screens or flows
Ignore feedback from users who signed up but never engaged
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to build and ship fast as a technical founder
Y Combinator
April 21, 2023
MVP & prototyping
10
Product-market fit
8
Pivoting
5
Ship a working prototype in days, not weeks — demos beat explanations.
The 90/10 solution: restrict scope ruthlessly, launch fast, rewrite later.
Your coding time drops below 50% once the team hits five engineers.
How Miro builds product: Lessons on competition and moving fast
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
April 20, 2023
Roadmapping
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Competitive analysis
6
Every product release gains or loses ground; competing on chess moves clarifies what to prioritize.
Cross-functional teams with embedded product marketing resist siloing and commodity traps.
Speed to learn beats perfection; unblock teams to hit the brick wall first.
MVP & prototyping
Podcast
Concierge onboarding, brand naming, cold outreach, and product prioritisation for early SaaS
Startups For the Rest of Us
April 18, 2023
MVP & prototyping
8
Customer experience
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Low churn means nothing if users never reach value — invest human hours.
Memorable brand names beat keyword-stuffed ones, especially in visual niches.
Validate by marketing first; manual onboarding lets you skip fixing bugs early.
Customer discovery
YouTube
Four steps to validate an online course idea before building it
Sunny Lenarduzzi
April 18, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Market research
8
Niche selection
6
Build last: validate with real humans before writing a single lesson.
Your unique life experience creates a blue ocean — competition becomes irrelevant.
50 client interviews surface exact pain points and pre-sell your course.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Eight things new SaaS developers need to know before building
Rob Walling
April 16, 2023
MVP & prototyping
8
Business models
7
Content marketing
5
SaaS data models need one-to-many flexibility built in from day one.
Most developers underestimate marketing — it matters more than features.
Boring tech stacks ship faster and validate products more reliably.