sorry, I found your definition of product/market fit to be basically ridiculous.
>Very often product/market fit becomes "We've solved all these peoples' problems and they pay us money." The problem? The problems and the people are all different.
Sorry for the tone, but to continue - "We don't have product-market fit! All we have is a bunch of people who consider us the solution to their problems and pay us a bunch of money! But where's the market? What are we even doing?"
I mean take an iconic, successful product. the iPhone. What's an iPhone?
I mean, sure, Apple sold 50 million of them last quarter but really it's just "we've built this thing all these different people want and they all pay us money". But the reasons people want one are all different! Or take the app store - what a disaster. What problem does it solve? It's just this place for a bunch of developers to do a bunch of different things! To hear you tell it, Apple needs to kill the app store -- despite taking a $6B cut in 2015 -- yes, this means $6,000,000,000 in revenue, and actually find some product/market fit, not a hodge-podge of random stuff people buy and developers are happy to give a cut of.
I mean why would anyone choose a $6 billion cut over actual PRODUCT-MARKET FIT? Would you rather wake up with $6 billion tomorrow or with a product that actually has "product-market fit".
I know which one I'd wake up with tomorrow. Sorry that I'm not able to be more eloquent but I find it so hard to wrap my head around what you'er trying to say.
What even is your idea of a product that has product-market fit?
You don't give any examples. Try to express what you mean using some concrete examples, if you still maintain your (extreme) position. So far you don't seem to include any positive examples of what you have in mind.
>Very often product/market fit becomes "We've solved all these peoples' problems and they pay us money." The problem? The problems and the people are all different.
Sorry for the tone, but to continue - "We don't have product-market fit! All we have is a bunch of people who consider us the solution to their problems and pay us a bunch of money! But where's the market? What are we even doing?"
I mean take an iconic, successful product. the iPhone. What's an iPhone?
I mean, sure, Apple sold 50 million of them last quarter but really it's just "we've built this thing all these different people want and they all pay us money". But the reasons people want one are all different! Or take the app store - what a disaster. What problem does it solve? It's just this place for a bunch of developers to do a bunch of different things! To hear you tell it, Apple needs to kill the app store -- despite taking a $6B cut in 2015 -- yes, this means $6,000,000,000 in revenue, and actually find some product/market fit, not a hodge-podge of random stuff people buy and developers are happy to give a cut of.
I mean why would anyone choose a $6 billion cut over actual PRODUCT-MARKET FIT? Would you rather wake up with $6 billion tomorrow or with a product that actually has "product-market fit".
I know which one I'd wake up with tomorrow. Sorry that I'm not able to be more eloquent but I find it so hard to wrap my head around what you'er trying to say.
What even is your idea of a product that has product-market fit?
You don't give any examples. Try to express what you mean using some concrete examples, if you still maintain your (extreme) position. So far you don't seem to include any positive examples of what you have in mind.