Duncan A Forbes

Duncan A Forbes

Founder @ Cheesemix
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Marketplace founders, what's one strategy that convinced providers to list on your marketplace?

Share the approach you took, to developing those early stage relationships with providers (sellers) during the first 12 - 18 months of seeding your marketplace with vendors. How you encouraged them to join the seeding stages, to enable you to have an existing providers database, with items available to purchase before beta stage testing. Don't hesitate to also discuss your failures, and the...
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What is everyone's favourite early-stage pre-design (before prototyping) user interview tactics?

I think it would be great for the Product Hunt community to learn from everyone's different methods of pre-design (before prototyping) user interviews during early-stage primary market research of your projects, and what are the methods you most use. Understandably each project has unique use-cases for different tactics, though think about the methods you use most often, and what has the most...
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Have you used or would you consider using a video commerce platform now or in the near future?

Poll time ⌚: Thought I'd see what video commerce (shoppable video/livestream shopping) platforms people have used and whether you're interested in using one in the near future. Discuss or name the platforms you've used in the comments, and what your experience has been from using such platforms as: - Taobao - Popshop.live - Amazon Live - Instagram Shoppable - Pinduoduo - Shoploop - Grip -...
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What are your deciding factors for purchasing a product?

Product transparency is becoming more critical. From the conditions, our products are manufactured in, the pay of workers in the factories where our products are produced, where the ingredients or materials of our products have been sourced from, to the finer details of what chemicals or dyes have been used during the production process. This is all part of a growing need for companies...