Monil Shah

Yikes, I got a 0 in Deep work, which unfortunately sounds right ..

Sleep is really important.

Pair of WIRED earphones ($13) from CVS. I love not having to worry about battery..

Thanks for your post, and for being so open to feedback! An initial look at Listolia definitely makes me curious. Here's how my naive mind sees it: 1) A place where influencers (eg: Tim Ferris) could write his top 5 favorite leadership books (for example). 2) A platform for anyone to create an account for making private lists for groceries, etc. Question to think about for both...

Hi Riya! Happy to give you tips/feedback. What are you building? Here's us!

Great question! For us, our first 20 or so customers were all relationships. That said, there is A TON of value in exposing your product to folks who don't know you, because they're more likely to give you blunt feedback. Starting with testing out your app on friends, however, is a great way to make it "market ready". What's your app about? Excited to see it! Here's us BTW :-)!

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing. Good luck on the launch, y'all seem to be doing great :-) If you're looking for a customer journey analytics platform, feel free to give us a shot, we have a free tier too: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/blue-green-analytics

Oooo this is a good question, one, which I don't have a perfect answer to, so here are my two cents: To convert free to paid, we've started doing two things: 1) Answering the question "if our product did not exist, would company A who is using it currently be in trouble"? This is a very hard question to answer, but it encourages us to keep improving our core set of features. 2) Asking...

Those are some awesome examples! I don't think there is a right way to validate it, and it depends (like the examples you posted reflect) on the use case. That said, here's what we do (our product is a customer journey analytics platform): 1) We use it ourselves for client work. For us this is big. If we cannot use it/ hate it that's an indication that something needs to change. 2) However,...

From a business perspective - trying to get more hands on our product. We even introduced a free tier recently to make it more accessible, but I guess we're learning how difficult it's with so much noise that we deal with every day! You can check us out here: https://www.bluegreenanalytics.com/journey-optimization Personally- trying to juggle my masters program with business/work.

Just shipped https://www.bluegreenanalytics.com/journey-optimization to help people visualize customer journeys on their website. Would really appreciate any feedback, especially since we just introduced a free tier to our product for making it more accessible. Any takers? :-)!

Role switching! You are your own engineering/sales/customer service/marketing department! At least for the first few iterations of the product, as a maker, it's so critical to switch roles on a daily basis.

I think the following question is apt, but the answer can be very scary (albeit useful)- "Would your business survive/thrive without product ___"? Most of the time the answer to this question is "yes", but I think the goal is to get as close as possible to "no", wherein the business very clearly sees the value of your product. Good luck! Feel free to check us out here:...

We found our beta testers in friends and family! I think it's the easiest way to get some eyes on the product. That said, putting your product in hands of users who don't personally know you definitely has its own benefits! You should also check out IndieHackers. Most importantly (and we've learned this the hard way)- if feasible, creating an online community of sorts would benefit y'all in...

Our biggest learning has been to create an online community of sorts and invite people to it, along with the usual Product Hunt listing. We lost some folks in that aspect cause we didn't have a community, but we set one up this week and are excited to see what happens! Here's us: https://www.bluegreenanalytics.com/journey-optimization

This is an interesting question and one that my colleagues and I have been debating about for years, at work. The way I've looked at it, with my naive and limited experience is that service and product can act as a very good synergy. In our case, we help our clients create optimized experiences to increase their ROI, and our product is a digitized version of "us". It does what we used to...