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September 2020 Archives

How to understand your product and your market September 30, 2020
A customer development question you can ask to find out who your product is best for and why they’ll love it.

Developer Experience Principle 2: Easy to Use September 28, 2020
Making it Easy to Use means letting the developer do everything without involving you.

Developer Experience Principle 1: Easy to Understand September 25, 2020
To create a great developer experience, you must strive for a product that is Easy to Understand. Reduce the amount of thinking that someone needs to do. Make their first encounter with your product clear and easy.

The Components of A Developer Experience September 19, 2020
Making your API a well-rounded product will help developers decide if your API is right for them and help grow their usage.

Principles of Developer Experience: An Introduction September 15, 2020
You can create a great developer experience for everything you build. Introducing the six principles of developer experience.

The KPI that measures Product-Market Fit September 9, 2020
If you ask this question to a different small group of your users every week, you can measure trends over time to determine if you’re moving toward product-market fit.

Don't use NPS to measure user happiness for enterprise software September 7, 2020
Measuring the satisfaction and enjoyment of end users is a key to unlocking product-led growth. Net Promoter Score is the wrong tool for this.

Ask One Question To Help You Reach Product-Market Fit September 3, 2020
Learn what adjacent problems you need to solve to become twice as valuable to your customers.