5harathFounding Growth Lead, Willow Voice

Founder-market fit

2 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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A founder built a rough MVP in a rush based on early feedback, skipping perfectionism. They argue product-market fit depends on real user need, not polish. If people need something badly enough, they'll use it even when it's rough.

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I didn't, I didn't have any time for self-doubt, to be honest. I was just, I was too busy building it. I was too busy being like, hey, this can help a lot of people that I consider to be my friends, obviously based off of all the comments that I got on that initial tweet. Yeah. And so I just built it. It was crap. The first product wasn't good, but I just didn't overthink it. And then they, there's a big saying with product market fit where they say, doesn't really matter what the product looks like. Doesn't really matter even totally how it functions. If people need it bad enough, they're going to use it.