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.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to launch an online coaching business from zero in 90 days
Sunny Lenarduzzi
January 13, 2026
MVP & prototyping
9
Content marketing
8
Niche selection
6
Run research interviews before building anything — the program sells itself.
Three AI tools compress weeks of positioning and curriculum work into minutes.
Tiny audiences beat big ones: 96 subscribers became $100k/month.
AI as a design material: building intelligent product experiences
Lean Startup Co.
January 6, 2026
Design thinking
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Culture building
5
Fast and cheap are now commodities — only product quality differentiates.
LLMs excel at driving experience layers, not delivering facts.
Sentient design embeds intent-aware intelligence directly into interfaces.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to start a one-person AI business without code
Dan Martell
January 3, 2026
MVP & prototyping
10
AI tools & automation
9
Prospecting & outreach
6
Pre-sell a prototype before writing a single line of code
No-code AI tools can build a working MVP in days
Growth hacks: distribution partners, pixel swaps, marketplace integrations
Product-market fit
YouTube
How to build a profitable AI startup from scratch in 2026
Silicon Valley Girl
December 29, 2025
Product-market fit
10
Niche selection
9
Pricing strategy
8
Engineer the outcome manually before building any product at all.
Avoid prompt wrappers — own the end-to-end vertical workflow instead.
Boring niche plus existing human services equals the 2026 opportunity.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How to Build a $100k Online Course Business From Scratch
Sunny Lenarduzzi
December 16, 2025
Product-market fit
9
Customer discovery
8
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Teaching everything you know guarantees your course fails and earns nothing.
Validate with 50 real interviews before building a single lesson.
Pre-sell a live eight-week prototype to get paid while refining your curriculum.
Product-market fit
YouTube
Building products in uncertainty: solution and outcome hypotheses
Lean Startup Co.
December 16, 2025
Product-market fit
8
Business operating systems
7
Management
5
Two nested hypotheses replace the single build-to-outcome assumption.
Observable change links team learning to leadership investment decisions.
Culture compensating for delivery, not learning, kills adoption.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
$10K/month from 28 apps: a portfolio betting strategy for indie devs
Starter Story
December 11, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Growth hacking
8
Automation & tools
6
Ship dozens of single-feature apps fast; let the market pick winners.
Target App Store keywords with 20% popularity, 60–70% difficulty, verified competitor revenue.
Reuse 90% of code across apps; total infra costs under $300/month.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
He shipped AudioPen in 12 hours — now earns $15K/month
Starter Story
December 9, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Case studies
8
Growth hacking
6
Louis Pereira built AudioPen's MVP in a 12-hour hackathon with no coding skills
Beta testers paid without being asked — before the product was even finished
After 15+ failed products, shipping fast and building in public unlocked product-market fit
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to build and run an online education business using Google Docs
Sunny Lenarduzzi
December 2, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Business models
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Fancy slide decks slow you down — Google Docs lets you iterate instantly
Sell before you build: run a live cohort to validate before recording anything
Perfectionism is procrastination; real feedback makes your offer stronger
Customer discovery
YouTube
Blending design strategy, lean thinking, and AI in enterprise innovation
Lean Startup Co.
November 25, 2025
Customer discovery
8
Pivoting
6
Slower upfront research produces stronger hypotheses and faster validation overall
In B2B niches, relationship-based qualitative research beats landing-page A/B tests
AI enters the solution only after the problem is rigorously framed first
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Six reasons your SaaS MVP failed (and how to fix each)
Rob Walling
November 23, 2025
MVP & prototyping
10
Customer discovery
8
Niche selection
6
Solving a mildly annoying problem — not a desperate one — kills traction
Shipping without a distribution plan guarantees a silent launch
Over-promising in copy creates disappointment, refunds, and churn
Feature prioritisation
Podcast
Stewart Butterfield on building products people love
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 20, 2025
Feature prioritisation
9
Pivoting
7
Management
5
Reducing friction is wrong — the real challenge is always comprehension.
Hyper-realistic work-like activities silently consume most of a scaling org.
Long-run success is measured solely by value created for customers.
MVP & prototyping
Podcast
How Elan Lee built Exploding Kittens into a 100-game empire
How I Work
November 19, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Niche selection
5
Deliberate errors on a preview page turned observers into launch-day advocates.
Rejecting 'yes, and' improv: kill ideas fast, generate thousands instead.
One question decides if a game ships: 'Do you want to play again?'
Product-market fit
YouTube
How two college students rebuilt their app to reach $30K MRR
Starter Story
November 18, 2025
Product-market fit
10
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Case studies
6
Good distribution can't save a product users don't stay for.
Shutting down marketing to rebuild from scratch unlocked 50% paid conversion.
One viral influencer video took ARR from $8K to $38K in three days.
Iteration & feedback loops
YouTube
How to build high-converting paywalls for no-code apps
Superwall
November 16, 2025
Iteration & feedback loops
9
Pricing strategy
8
Conversion rate optimisation
7
Fixing paywall conversion beats spending more on user acquisition
Multi-step paywalls with trial framing drive 20–40% uplift
Transaction abandonment and placement coverage are non-negotiable foundations