Re:Ask HN: How do you decide features set of your product?
by mindcrime on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @03:21PM
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My advice: Read The Four Steps to the Epiphany or The Startup Owner's Manual. @sgblank talk about this in detail.
At the risk of sounding flippant, you can basically reduce it to "talk to customers". Note however, that @sgblank does NOT advocate collecting the union of all requested features and implement all of them! The idea is to identify the most requested features, or, to really be more specific, the features that somebody is willing to pay for.
The principle behind this is easy to understand, although the actual process of doing this isn't necessarily easy as it takes a lot of work to go out, find potential customers, interview them, etc.
At the risk of sounding flippant, you can basically reduce it to "talk to customers". Note however, that @sgblank does NOT advocate collecting the union of all requested features and implement all of them! The idea is to identify the most requested features, or, to really be more specific, the features that somebody is willing to pay for.
The principle behind this is easy to understand, although the actual process of doing this isn't necessarily easy as it takes a lot of work to go out, find potential customers, interview them, etc.