Hey Darko - I'm working on a project in the same space (www.tribefive.me for reference). It's cool to see you've put so much thought into it! We should chat more offline and find ways to help each other out.
How close are you to launch? The reason I ask is because I think you should launch ASAP and start getting real world feedback.
I bet you'll be surprised about what your customers care about, and what they are confused by, etc.
(I say that as someone going through the same phase of the entrepreneurial journey.)
For instance, I thought Tribe of Five would be a very utilitarian app where you go in each day, check in really quickly, and get out. That's how I intended to use it.
But OVERWHELMINGLY, when early beta testers shared feedback, they wanted ways to engage with the people in their "tribe".
Right away, this helped me shift my roadmap so that I built out a light-weight comment system to see if that increases engagement in the app.
Good luck with LifeHQ, and email me if you ever want to shoot the shit on productivity stuff!
That seems like an absolutely massive amount of functionality. Like... the scope is huge.
How much customer development have you done during the development process over the last (2 years was it)?
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Well so far I've been using Evernote to accomplish these things more or less. And I think many others have done the same. So now I'm building a system that has modules specific for these sections.
I am building this with myself as the ideal customer, then I'll just have to find people similar to me for customers. :)
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I'm building a habit tracker (habit.fm) and so I was looking at the habits section. I pretty much started building for me personal use cases but have been engaging people along the way to find out how they do things. I've been pretty surprised at times at what people do and don't care about. Even though habit.fm is still a long way off what a mass-appeal habit tracker needs it's been really good talking to people about now they do things because it's helping me figure out what to focus on as I iterate and keep testing.
It's pretty challenging to get even one product right to the point where it's not only broadly appealing, but actually useful and even sticky. You definitely need to do a lot of customer development to build an accurate picture if reality.
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I share the same feelings. I am also using evernote but it doesn't feel that handy at times. Dropped a note on your email do discuss further on this.
Are you building it all alone or have you setup a team for it ?
Hey Darko - I'm working on a project in the same space (www.tribefive.me for reference). It's cool to see you've put so much thought into it! We should chat more offline and find ways to help each other out.
How close are you to launch? The reason I ask is because I think you should launch ASAP and start getting real world feedback.
I bet you'll be surprised about what your customers care about, and what they are confused by, etc.
(I say that as someone going through the same phase of the entrepreneurial journey.)
For instance, I thought Tribe of Five would be a very utilitarian app where you go in each day, check in really quickly, and get out. That's how I intended to use it.
But OVERWHELMINGLY, when early beta testers shared feedback, they wanted ways to engage with the people in their "tribe".
Right away, this helped me shift my roadmap so that I built out a light-weight comment system to see if that increases engagement in the app.
Good luck with LifeHQ, and email me if you ever want to shoot the shit on productivity stuff!
-Jonathan (jonathan@tribefive.me)
Yes definitely. Email is on its way :)
Tribefive looks great btw
That seems like an absolutely massive amount of functionality. Like... the scope is huge.
How much customer development have you done during the development process over the last (2 years was it)?
Well so far I've been using Evernote to accomplish these things more or less. And I think many others have done the same. So now I'm building a system that has modules specific for these sections.
I am building this with myself as the ideal customer, then I'll just have to find people similar to me for customers. :)
I'm building a habit tracker (habit.fm) and so I was looking at the habits section. I pretty much started building for me personal use cases but have been engaging people along the way to find out how they do things. I've been pretty surprised at times at what people do and don't care about. Even though habit.fm is still a long way off what a mass-appeal habit tracker needs it's been really good talking to people about now they do things because it's helping me figure out what to focus on as I iterate and keep testing.
It's pretty challenging to get even one product right to the point where it's not only broadly appealing, but actually useful and even sticky. You definitely need to do a lot of customer development to build an accurate picture if reality.
I share the same feelings. I am also using evernote but it doesn't feel that handy at times. Dropped a note on your email do discuss further on this.
Are you building it all alone or have you setup a team for it ?