{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bootstrapper's Paradise","title":"New Feature or New Product","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":183,"description":"Is that new idea of yours better served as a feature in your current product or a new product altogether?\nLet's discuss the pros and cons here and allow me to recommend an approach for figuring this out.\nFree product-market fit email course - https://nxtstep.io/fit\nEpisode Transcript\nHey folks, Sean here and today what I wanna talk to you about is how to determine whether or not that next feature idea of yours should actually be a product of its own. Now, I've been talking about this in regards to what I'm considering to be micro sass, and it's also referred to as low-touch products.\nThose are SaaS applications that don't require a lot of intervention from you in order to get your users onboarded to the platform to start receiving. In fact, in most cases, applications like these that I'm typically working on in a B2B area, selling business to business, they can be the full experience.\nYour user can get the full experience without much training or intervention whatsoever on your behalf. Now, because of that, And because the more complicated those applications get, I have a tendency to wanna keep the experience as simple as possible, to make sure that it's as easy as possible for your users and customers to understand and know what to do, and then to be able to get value out of it themselves.\nYou know, onboard themselves, handle all of the steps and components themselves without getting lost. And the more complicated your product is, the harder it is to be to do that. Now when you're entertaining whether or not perhaps a new request or a new idea probably coming from you is, uh, something to extend based on the capability of your current.\nApplication or whether or not that should be a product of its own. And that's kind of where I'm at at the moment. I've got my podcasting B2B SaaS application in a good spot at the moment, feature wise, until I get a new wave of feedback. But I've got ways to potentially extend that capability and I can add that on to the current...","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}