Kevin Lu

Hi PHers, what is your most precious learning or insight during startup?

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David J. Kim
The real user test? Try selling it to someone. You'll learn fast whether you really have something viable.
Kevin Lu
@between_team Truly! Your heart follows where your gold is! XDXD
Keep learning new things and staying calm, not letting market noise distract you.
Kevin Lu
@ming_xu1 I can feel you! The AI thing is quite distracting to me but I learn to focus on my users, and making something people want, the product grows better!
@dot_brand totally agree 🙌
Dr. Viktor
the launch requires deep preparation in advance, this applies to both the product itself and the audience.
Kevin Lu
@viktor_shpudeiko Truly! Saw your product, just clicked "Notify me"!! God Speed!!!!!
Charlie Kor
How to sell is as important as what is selling.
Kevin Lu
@charlie_lee1 Indeed! Just clicked "Notify Me"! Keep me updated, and God Speed!!!!!
Charlie Kor
@dot_brand Thanks Kevein for good discussion. I just followed you on PH, Twitter too :)
Marlene Koh
Most people don't give a shit. That's ok. Find the ones that do.
Kevin Lu
@mkoh I love it! XDXD
Kim HM
Have a strong belief in your ideas, understand customer needs, build a complementary team, be flexible and adaptable, manage resources effectively, build good relationships, learn from failure, and continuously learn and improve. That's what I learned recently.
Kathan Desai
Keep It Simple and Stupid!
Kevin Lu
@kathan_desai1 I think laser focus and do the fundamental works are the keys!
Hello_Joy
🤔From MVP to launch, building relationships with our target audience is crucial. Through the process, we can receive a lot of meaningful feedback from followers. For example, our team created 'hummin' (Next week, launching soon😎)! In fact, hummin came about as a result of the careful consideration and effort put into building an audience and sustaining engagement on Twitter. ⭐️If you guys are active users on and would like to be one of them, 'hummin' would be a very useful tool for you to enhance your productivity. 😆
Kevin Lu
@joy_eom Just Followed your product! God Speed!!!!!
Felix
My personal favorite advice is: Don't look too much at other creators or start-ups. They might have more success now, but if your idea is good and you are dedicated to it: Keep working on it and making it better, stay in it at all costs. You will be rewarded eventually!
Clement Eleh
@felix_digistash Great thought.
Kevin Lu
@felix_digistash Well said! Focus on your Ideal Customers, satisfy them, keep iterating the product!
Anton Zorin
Launch as early as you can. We had the most valuable launch on Product Hunt when we posted on Hacker News and somebody hunted our product. We knew about the launch 3 days later. 😅
Kevin Lu
@tonyzorin Wow congrats, Anton! I followed your product!! God speed on your launch!!
Anton Zorin
@dot_brand Kevin, thank you!
Aviv Icel
We work to get the job done. Titles don't matter. Seniority doesn't matter. If you see something that should be done, take ownership over it (it doesn't necessarily means you'll be the one ending up doing it). No task is beneath you, or outside of your responsibilities.
Kevin Lu
@aviv_m_icel Truly! I recently felt that CEO is more like a servant to everyone in the company/shareholders.
Aviv Icel
@dot_brand People thought me that as a manager, you 1) should surround yourselves with people smarter than you, and 2) stay out of their way.
Bjarn Bronsveld
Accept the fact that failure is part of the journey and without failure there's no growth.
Kevin Lu
@bjarnbronsveld ITERATION, ITERATION, ITERATION! I just followed your product and you! XD God speed, Bjarn!
Bjarn Bronsveld
@dot_brand Exactly! And awesome, thanks a lot :)
Ceyda Güzelsevdi
You CANNOT motivate people. Motivation is intrinsic, and comes within 🌞🎬
Ceyda Güzelsevdi
@dot_brand Also you learn what "long-term" planning really means if you were not used to it before, or thought you could.. Being flexible, patient, adaptable to change.. other important ones I can think of
Kevin Lu
@ceyguz Wow! Thanks for the sharing!
Vlad Zivkovic
Take a risks with investors money, not with your own 😁
Hugo DEVEZE 🏴‍☠️
My most precious learning for the moment is : never wait to speak to potential users and test your idea first.
Kevin Lu
@devezehugo Cannot agree more!!
Doğukan Tezcan
Keep going and stay focused
Kevin Lu
@dogukan_tezcan FOCUS is the key!
Pranab Buragohain
@dot_brand That one needs to be flexible, open to constant iterations, and open to ideas. The best advise can come from the most unexpected source. Oh, and that Distribution > Product.
Kevin Lu
@pranabgohain Agree with you! btw, I just clicked "Notify Me", looking forward to see your product launch!
Pranab Buragohain
@dot_brand Woohoo thanks, Kevin. You're really kind!
Soumen Majumdar
Launch your idea/product before Google does!
Kevin Lu
@soumen_majumdar Interesting! Can you elaborate more on that?
Soumen Majumdar
@dot_brand Remember Orkut? ... It was bought by Google. Now chatGPT... surely Google will come up with similar kind of product and then we will forget chatGPT. Also, Yahoo mail....Gmail just overtook Yahoo mail....
Aida Zu
Lear to build ownerships! It's sooo important to build up processes in such way, so every teammate can work and do things autonomously. In start-ups it's possible. (Big corporate companies are so much stupidly complicated, take this as an advantage!) Tip for managers: create a roadmap for your team, where every team member takes an ownership of a particular things. It will save you 100 hours of 'getting since with', 'reviewing' and so on.
Kevin Lu
@aidai_zu GREAT reminders, Aida! Thanks abundant!
Matei Culcer
The first time we launched ProdCamp on PH we had no payment system... We got hundreds of signups. But nothing to prove the feedback we were receiving was coming from the audience we were looking to listen. When we made Prodcamp a paid subscription and promoted it again we got much more qualitative feedback. Only today after two years of development we are ready to relaunch a free plan ! But lesson learned! Make sure you listen to people that are ready to pay for your product if you want to use feedback to drive your roadmap.
Kevin Lu
@matei_culcer This is golden advice, Matei!!!! Launch the product and get paid asap: the best way to test the market!
Kevin Lu
@matei_culcer Just clicked "Notify Me", and followed you! God speed!