Tweet by jeff_weinstein

May 27, 2026

This came up twice today, so figured I'd tweet it. People, internally and externally, talk [read: complain] to me that their product isn't growing, or isn't growing enough. 100% of the time they are missing at least one of the following minimum requirements for success: (A) A *burning* user problem [not a "it'd be nice if" problem] (B) Users with that problem, each in a [Slack] room [I'll accept WhatsApp or iMessage, but it can't be email] (C) Narrow the problem such that you can build a 10X better solution than the current alternatives [you are very likely biting off too much to early and then you can't quick make a wow-better solution] (D) A chart with _daily_ counts of users using the product [do not kid yourself into measuring weekly or monthly] (E) At least 2 people, but probably under 5, working on it full-time, that like each other and meet at least once per day [new things are just more fun together than solo] In terms of order of operation: it's first (E), then (A) which begets (B), then you just have to daily iterate back and forth between (C) and (D) unless it's growing faster again.

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jeff_weinstein
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May 27, 2026
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