Stox: Best product ideas come from internal power users, not customers
Patrick Stox · aHref's Does $1m in Revenue Per Employee, Bootstrapped, Using these 5 Content Strategies you should copy · Jul 11, 2024 · at 5:33
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Patrick Stox of Ahrefs explains why product development should rely on internal power users rather than copying competitor features requested by customers.
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“Users, I don't think, will ever give you the next unicorn idea, the next great product idea. They're always like, this is what the other tools are doing. Give me that, basically. Like, I want this use case. The best ideas, in my opinion, come from your own team, your kind of power users, the ones that are using your product every day.”
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