We have close to zero users. We want to find product-market fit asap. (Before summer?). I propose a new process that runs in parallel with our current workflow.

I am constantly sharing Seed with communities, family, and friends, and the failure rate is close to 100%. They want the idea behind the tool, but they don't understand how to engage with it. Our software development flow is too slow and too expensive for this stage. That has changed: we can now build new prototyped functionality in less than an hour.

These prototypes will not be perfectly designed, and they may not reflect our usual level of software and design craftsmanship. But they are good enough for experiments.

Goal: Achieve user success by augmenting knowledge networks to help people build a common understanding.

Process:

Identify a Real Community Organizer. A Person.
Ideation.
Planning and Vibe Coding.
Release the branch to an experimental community.
Observe real usage and collect feedback through intimate conversations.
Keep, improve, or discard the experiment.
Promote successful experiments into the main product workflow.

Principle:

We are not lowering our standards for the product. We are creating a faster path for learning. The purpose of these experiments is not to ship polished software. The purpose is to discover what people actually need, as quickly and directly as possible.

Technical Requirements

Push Branch to GitHub.
Generate an Image.
Run the self-host Script from a server. I will use Digital Ocean for now.