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Qudsia Ali

What are some challenges you faced when you started working on your product?

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Working on a new product can take an immense amount of planning and dealing with challenges before you even get started designing! What are the one or two most significant challenges you faced when putting your product together? Was it finding suitable funding? Deciding who you would work with or anything else.
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Ferenc Forgacs
The hardest thing for me was to say no to another "great feature" I wanted to add to the mvp. This killed many of my ideas even before I showed it to anyone.
Johan Steneros
@feriforgacs Totally agree with this. Momentum is very important you just need to release it and take it from there.
Fares
Make the business plan, budget the feasibility study, find a good business model
Auri
Zefi.ai
Choosing between innovation and reducing adoption friction!
Dylan Merideth
Marketing. We are both technical founders so we had to split up and one had to learn how to market a product, while one focused on building
Johan Steneros
@dylan_merideth I'm working on improving my marketinng skills as well. I must say it has not been easy so far.
Micky Nguyen
- Get to make sure a product market fit - On behalf of choosing what to do for products, choosing what to not do is important. - It is scalable? => I am a non-technical person so I tend to focus on the market, users/customers and strategies.
My main challenge has always been that I'm a non-technical founder!
Aleks Dahlberg
Sahha
Things take a lot longer than you expect, getting funding/investment often increases this as at that point you'd likely be looking at moving away from MVP or first versions of things and into more robust builds of your project. Finding the right people! I've been blessed with my team, but I often hear horror stories of teams not working well together. Spend time finding good people, that work well together. This can make product development super fast, and easy. I'd take a lower skilled team-player over a highly skilled but arrogant person any day of the week.
Denis Pimenov
Before you start planning, you must clearly understand what goals you want to achieve, what and who you need for this, and how much time it can take to implement. If you have an idea about this, you can roughly estimate how much funding is needed. And already based on this, you can understand where or from whom you can find financial support.
Denis Pimenov
@qudsia_ali Exactly.
Yesser Falk
Choosing the right web design tool :D
Luis Hernandez Peña
@yesser_falk LOL our project is a web design (and programming) tool :)
Pritam Nanda
Building a product is hard. I still remember in the initial days when we were building Findz ( https://www.producthunt.com/upco... ), we were literally knocking our heads off to decide the features we want on the app and the ones we don't. We are finally ready with our releases and looking forward to launching Findz this month. I will really appreciate if you can take a moment to check out the app. Are you working on something? I would love to know more about it.
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