{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bootstrapper's Paradise","title":"A Feature as a Product","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":186,"description":"Historically you may have received feedback about your idea that goes something like this - 'that's not a product, that's probably just a feature'.  This is often given as feedback to mean you aren't ready to create your product yet because maybe it doesn't do enough.\nI want to challenge this narrative and share examples of how some product companies have been wildly successful build entire products around a single feature or idea.\nFree product-market fit email course - https://nxtstep.io/fit\nEpisode Transcript\n Hey folks, Sean here today. What I wanna talk to you about is the whole concept of feedback previously where people might say that your idea isn't a product, it's more likely a feature. Now, traditionally, this has been shared in the context of something somewhat negative or maybe feedback to the extent of you, just you're not quite there yet in terms of ready to move forward in building a product.\nYou don't almost have enough substance or value to offer someone in order to turn it into a product experience that people are going to pay for. I want to challenge that narrative, and I wanna challenge that because of the rise of this concept and the success of other products like it that I'm referring to as micro SaaS or touch, and in my world, particularly B2B SaaS products or applications, because in the studying that I've.\nThe more complicated your software product is, the harder it is to do just about everything. Build it, sell it, market it, gain traction, find product, market fit, whatever, right? All of those things are significantly more difficult, and I believe become exponentially more difficult, the more complicated your software product becomes.\nNow, can that product do more? Yes. More often than not, that's the case. However, do most of your users want that product to do? That answer is a little bit harder to kind of figure out, and it takes a lot longer in order to determine. So long story short, here, what I'm trying to communicate is that if...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/B0rBF_s0upJdRqXoy4_4rHlfSlZONOaHnrUmmpOi708/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYmIx/MTMxNTExY2VjZjIz/NjEzNWFhNmI4OGZl/ZDliMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}