Building What Customers Need, Not Just What They Ask For
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The article discusses the importance of building products that meet customers' underlying needs, rather than just their explicit requests, and the HN community briefly engages with the topic.
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sema4hacker
4 months ago
I've found it's also important to build ONLY what customers need, and not get carried away spending time on features and problems that may be fascinating and fun to solve from an engineering point of view but that delay implementing what's really needed.
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