Comments on: Thoughts on Product-Market Fit

By: Targeting Matters! — giffconstable.com

Targeting Matters! — giffconstable.com — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:23:46 +0000

[...] step. Still, I need to bang on a few points. I touched on this the other day with my thoughts on product-market fit, and find myself hung up on the line “it probably doesn’t [...]

By: ericamzalag

ericamzalag — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:57:25 +0000

Sorry if my question was unclear. You actually addressed it pretty well, so
thank you. It is easier to visualize MVPing a social network once you gave
me that starting point. I guess the network could be broken down piece by
piece to Wall (public or private), Profile (what qualities to be
displayed/not displayed) Event/group/fan pages, etc etc.

By: Eric Amzalag

Eric Amzalag — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000

Sorry if my question was unclear. You actually addressed it pretty well, sornthank you. It is easier to visualize MVPing a social network once you gavernme that starting point. I guess the network could be broken down piece byrnpiece to Wall (public or private), Profile (what qualities to berndisplayed/not displayed) Event/group/fan pages, etc etc.

By: giffc

giffc — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:07:51 +0000

Hi there, not sure I totally understand the question. You could definitely MVP portions of a social networking application — for example, take the Wall. Are (target demographic) interested in having a public or private (there's a test right there) profile with a wall others can see, and want to post on other people's walls? You don't need huge numbers of people, just an interconnected group, to see if people find it fun or useful.

By: ericamzalag

ericamzalag — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:26:35 +0000

Customer Development definitely seems like the proper choice when your prepping a product for market. It almost seems 100% intuitive if statistics didn't prove otherwise…
Just a thought in passing, but how do you think the customer development process would work for social networks?
In my opinion, it would be difficult to bring up a Minimum Viable Product standing in as a social network because it would risk halting any momentum that may have been created. What do you think?