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What was your motivation for creating your product?

Hey IH, just a little curios about what was the motivation for you to create your product.

Was it a personal problem that you were trying to solve?
Something you saw on your daily life?
A school project that became bigger and bigger?

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    Hola Víctor!

    In my case, I was working for a huge website, with many editors and thousands of visits per day. I was super into the analytics trying to understand the performance of each type of content and getting insights from it. I then realised not all the team had the same passion and motivation to do the same analysis so… I decided to send them an overview with the main metrics to their inbox.

    A few weeks later that email became the first thing they saw every morning and many times they started a thread from that email discussing about the team strategy or cheering up the author of the most visited article of the day. I then thought I should share this with other teams.

    What about you? Very interesting question by the way. I’d love to read some stories here.

    Cheers!

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      Wooow!, such a cool story!, I think in the "hacking growth" book says that for validating an idea you only need the power of mailing, congrats for your product.

      The reason I created my product is more about "solving a personal problem", I'm a developer, but the company that I worked for needed me to help them managing some teams/clients, and it was very hard to save all links and url for related to the projects. I tried Toby and other bookmarks managers, but I wasn't convinced, so I decided to create my own, it only has a few users, but I'm on the way to share it with more and more people/places

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