5 korrents from this recording
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0:47:16 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Whatever people are already doing, making it a little easier makes a much better product.
Their wordswhatever people are doing if you can make that a little bit easier then that's just going to be a much better product that people enjoy more
0:47:22 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthis is just this principle of latent demand which I think is just the single most important principle in product.
0:47:36 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordslatent demand is this idea that if you build a product in a way that can be hacked or can be kind of misused by people in a way it wasn't really designed for to do kind of something that they want to do then this helps you as the product builder learn where to take the product next
0:49:46 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
People jumping through hoops to use a tool for something else is a reason to build them a product.
Their wordsit was just really obvious like people are jumping through hoops to use a terminal to do this thing maybe we should just build a product for them
0:50:36 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo when you see people abusing the product in this way, using it in a way that it wasn't designed in order to do something that is useful for them, it's just such a strong indicator that you should just build a product and people are going to like that.