"Part of the job of a developer isn’t just building new software, it’s finding new and better ways to build that software. As a result, developers spend a good chunk of time simply looking stuff up. Stack Overflow’s Q&A format is particularly useful because you can surface highly specific answers to the urgent questions that are holding up your project. I built an API in response to a question that someone asked on Stack Overflow, and months later, I noticed that I was getting millions of requests a day. I’ve now quit my job and built my business around that API, and, along the way, found one of the most effective ways to market to developers: answer their burning questions."
"Part of the job of a developer isn’t just building new software, it’s finding new and better ways to build that software. As a result, developers spend a good chunk of time simply looking stuff up. Stack Overflow’s Q&A format is particularly useful because you can surface highly specific answers to the urgent questions that are holding up your project. I built an API in response to a question that someone asked on Stack Overflow, and months later, I noticed that I was getting millions of requests a day. I’ve now quit my job and built my business around that API, and, along the way, found one of the most effective ways to market to developers: answer their burning questions."
Product Market Fit is one of four fits needed to grow a product to $100M+ in a venture-backed time frame (more on the other fits later in this essay series). Brian Balfour talks about the 5 elements of Product Market Fit that he thinks are widely misunderstood and overlooked: - The wrong way to search for Product Market Fit. - Why we should be thinking about it as Market Product Fit. - How Brian's team defined our market and product hypotheses for early versions of HubSpot Sales. - What the search for market product fit looks like in reality, not just in theory. - Qualitative, Quantitative, and Intuitive signals of market product fit.
<p>Product/market fit is the foundation of growth and product/market fit is achieved by building a product that solves a need for people. Some of the most impressive growth stories have come from the result of companies who create growth through their product. These are the best articles on product-driven growth and detail how marketers and growth teams can use their products to create growth. From viral and social integrations, to product optimization, user onboarding and more, this section explores how growth is driven by products and product teams.</p>
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