Hey Product makers!🎄 What's the hardest part of your job?🤯

That's a tough question. I guess it's explaining why we're leaving out some features and not implementing them. One tries to maintain a certain approach to design while maintaining good relationships with customers. As developers and designers, we make decisions for the users. These decisions greatly influence what the app will be. We think about problems and how to solve them so that the solution is not only functional, but also easy to use. We emphasize simplification. Sometimes the problem needs to be investigated further because it may be elsewhere than it appears. People are usually not aware of where the problem is. I myself have a difficulty figuring out where the heart of the matter is, even though it is an important part of my job. Sometimes a feature just doesn't fit our vision. Other times, we feel like it wouldn't make sense at the time. But what happens is that we change our minds and a few weeks later we come up with a solution that fits into the existing system. Then we get back to those people that we've solved their problem. We welcome feedback. It makes us look at problems from a different angle. And other times we wouldn't even know there was a problem. This results in a way better solution for everybody.

1. Conveying your new idea exactly to your team the way it is in your mind. Without the wireframes and designs. 2. Aligning designers, developers, and marketing teams.

Finding new clients. Any tips you can share?

Probably working on holidays

Getting motivated and sit down to do the work... When you're your own boss, there's no one to tell you what to do, give you deadlines. I find it difficult to get as much done on my own projects as otherwise would be a piece of cake when working on other projects as a freelancer.

Planning a Sprint and reduce the backlogs

Believing in myself maybe :)

Prioritising!

Getting the first paid customer is always the hardest!

Hey Alexey, for me I think its the motivation of being able to get up and do what needs to be done. Without a boss/colleague deadlines.

Making product decisions - so many things we want to build and not enough time!

Hey Alexey and fellow product builders! Let me give you my version based on the current hardships. So here I'm with a few friends trying to build something that would actually matter! There's always excitement and so much brainstorming happening. But the main issue that we found was execution. We keep making our Scrums and adding so many tasks to it, but the funny thing in building a product is that you might complete a few tasks every now and then but that is overcompensated by the addition of multiple more tasks. We sat down and discussed what made us lag in the execution and came to the conclusion that we needed more hands-on deck. Now being bootstrapped as we are at a very nascent stage in our product life cycle, we obviously had to think hard if we could afford to make a few hires or not. A week after running through numbers we finally did decided to go ahead and build the squad, right! Until now I was under the impression that execution was the hardest part of my job. I thought that the solution was hiring a few more people to work with us. Little did I realise at that time that the solution would evolve into becoming harder than the initial hardest part of my job :) Now I spend most of my time screening through applications and getting on calls with these potential hires, which kind of makes my scrum board look stagnant; and the irony is that when I do finally find somebody that's a good fit, they never show up when its the day of joining. It's funny how after reading through the comments of others I find my hardest part of the job to be the easiest. Cheers guys!

Marketing our product and finding new users.

The most difficult thing is the monotony of work

One problem that I am baffled with (at the moment) is this: How can I get early adopters for my SaaS product?

Having to keep a 9 to 5 job in the early stages. Also, sales! Finding the first few users that will kick-start the iteration process

Sales :( And, I hate when I don't know what to do next... since I have no one telling me what to do, I have moments where I simply just don't know what to do next to move my business forward... I hope my answer makes sense and is helpful towards whatever reason you are asking Alexey.