When it comes to startup, I always see people run behind unicorn ideas which are many times overhyped or poorly implemented, is it less risky to enter into an already established market rather than creating a new market? Because what I believe is that no product can satisfy 100% of its customers, so there is always room for improvement and customer acquisition? Any thoughts on this?

Hello to all my fellow Makers! As a rookie product manager, I want to start a thread to invite some fellow makers to share insight on one of the most essential aspects of product development, "Where to begin?": Some thought-provoking questions I would love to hear discourse about are: 1) What has worked well for you when beginning product development, including what questions do you ask yourself or your team? And what hasn't? 2) How do you first engage with cross-functional teams when you're just beginning? 3) How do you provide clarity and remove confusion with your team? 4) What's your first step to defining "Product Vision"? The above questions are just a few of the top of my head but I would be glad to hear more!

Studies have found that a company s color influences approximately 80% of a customer s purchasing decision. This means that the right choice of color does not only strengthen the brand association, but it can also affect the total sales. Hunters, what do you think regarding the color psychology? If someone is interested, here are cards with descriptions of the most popular colors: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEoz...

Hi Makers, I've become really interested recently in what makes someone leave a job to pursue a career as a maker. I used to be an Archaeologist (its an unusual change I know). I want to know your stories. What jobs did you give up to pursue your dream? What job are you planning to leave once your Unicorn takes off? Why?

It's not my first time, but I've sometimes the impression that I do the same mistakes again and again without recognizing it.

We are preparing our product launch and I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to building a virtual community. Do you know the problem? A few questions: - Which channels do you use? (Twitter, PH, ...) - How many channels? - How do you attract followers? - Are there cool tricks and methods? - How many followers should you have in the different channels at least? Or if you have different things to say, please tell me.

Full disclosure : my team and I are building an application which will have Stories of/by founders, a Game in which you can play the founder of a startup and run it from idea to IPO, a Chat-bot to interact with, where gurus will suggest learning content curated/created by founders (which helped them understand a certain concept for eg. Negotiation) So I'm taking in more feedback to make final changes to it before going live in various phases starting November. Do let me know your thoughts on the same and thankyou.

I know we are busy, super busy - I get it. We are all hacking away, working on our projects, which is great. The goal is to hit that sweet spot and really ship something that people want. I've been building products and solving problems for years and one thing that is true for almost any product that I use on the daily, is that - it makes me feel something. Relief, Happiness, more efficient, optimized, better organized, etc. I've been asking myself this question lately: Will the thing I'm building, make people feel something? Curious to see if anyone else is doing this? Spotify makes me feel, all the feels - how about you?

When designing a product, should we heavily lean toward user feedback or create products that we truly believe will work? Henry Ford famously once said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". What's your take, makers?

I'm trying to see what clever ways people here have tried to get their first set of users for their product. Immediate network is an obvious choice but beyond that, what creative ways have people found success when getting their first set of power users?

I'm looking for the best software to create a group chat for our beta-testers to communicate with each other? Any suggestions?

My 7 years in the workforce has been as a developer, I recently started my startup journey by building out ditData.com As a developer this isn't too hard, but selling the product is - I don't enjoy it. I am lost on how to get my brain to accept the change. I want to be involved in the sales and talking to users, not just writing codes, but the biggest barrier is psychological - I can't concentrate on anything other than coding. Any tip on how to make this transition?

Motivation or willpower is not an infinite resource. It's much like a muscle that can get tired. How do you recharge yourself in those situations?

We've recently launched our analytics platform. We are trying to figure out whether we should first focus on gaining customers who would use our Templates to get one-click analytics solutions or focus on the community who can build those solutions on the platform. The more Templates we have, the more attractive the product is for the paying customers. But until we have more paying customers, it is not that attractive for the community of builders. In the future, we would like to make it possible for the builders to make money per Template. A model is similar to Salesforce, but for Analytics. Currently, we address our UVP to the paying customer's side, but we also added information that it is possible to build your own Templates. So the pitch for paying customers is: Turn your data into Insights with a single click Pick your Template to get actionable insights instantly, with the use of AI. No code, no data team required. The pitch for builders is: Use Stormly s AI-based building blocks to create custom no- code analytics solutions, or reuse the existing ones in the form of Templates. Do you have any thoughts on this? Or maybe a similar experience and you would like to share your learnings? Which side should we start with?

Hi friends and hunters, Relatively new here, but excited to launch our new product next week. Any tips and tricks you'd recommend for newbies here? What not to do? How to approach hunters in the best way? Thanks, Andrew

Hey, How are you coping with potential new lockdowns? Does it challenge you mentally, throwing your product plans off the track and vice versa does it increase your motivation to build a product that could help communities and businesses during these difficult times?

Inspirations don't come cheap. Where do you guys go to get inspired for new ideas?

Your plan is to make a product in 2 years, a year and 2 months in, Facebook releases the same product... what do you do? Back to drawing board?

When you have a new idea do you buy the domain straight away or wait a while? I tend to get the domain first hence why I have about 10 unused domains right now

This sounds silly but when I launched my first startup 5 years ago, we didn't put in a vesting schedule Wanted to see what others have done but also things we know to avoid in the future!