Product Features
topic on 4 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Lenny's Podcast
the Official SaaStr Podcast
20VC
9 statements about Product Features, every show
Pincus: Novel features drive initial trial but not user retention
“New is like the novel idea that will get someone interested in your product... It might get someone to try our product, but that feature might die. The feature might actually get trial. It's like, they call it the back of the box. Like what got you to buy the …”
Pincus: Extracting buried, proven features from existing products is gold
“When we can see something that is proven already in someone else's product, but they have, you know, the wrong idea around it, that's gold.”
Product features that fail at infinite scale should never be built
“If something doesn't work at an infinite scale, it doesn't work. You never put it in there for the first place.”
Misra: Users forgive missing baseline features if a product offers novel capabilities
“If you did something unique that nobody else has done, you can go and show that to people and people will come to your app just for that. And even if your app doesn't have a lot of the obvious stuff, maybe it doesn't have justify alignment, right? People will …”
Sharma: Treat pricing as an evolving feature, not a static decision
“First off, I want to try and make you reset your mind about what pricing is. I call it, it's another product feature. And just like other product features, it changes what your customer's behavior is. And so you should think about it the same way and use it in…”
Hudack: Unship product features that lack statistically significant impact
“The answer might be that there's no statistically significant impact, in which case you should, like, unship the thing, you know, or maybe there's something wrong with it.”
Rathi: Onboarding and Copy Drive Product Success More Than Core Features
“The way you write your copy, the way you build your onboarding, the way you do your first warm welcome, it's going to make the biggest amount of change in terms of your product success than your core product features that you're going to build for your loyal c…”
Crowley: Individual Features Do Not Require Dedicated Product Strategy Documents
“Typically speaking, when you're doing a strategy, you're doing it at a higher level. So I don't think, like, every product needs a strategy. Like, every feature doesn't need a strategy, for example. Like, you don't need to do this if you're, like, working on a…”