Did you find your market fit before launching?

Sometimes in a Feedback and Adapt mode. Sometimes confident. Sometimes both. Sometimes none. However, doing market fit research and adapting before building is a must.

Hi Olaf, I feel like my product is finally ready to be in public. It's a website editor, and there are around 20 live commercial websites built using it so it's pretty stable (BTW check it out: https://www.producthunt.com/post...) We've been preparing this for two years. We found our market fit pretty easily: we were building sites for a decade now and realised there's no such tool that covers professional studios, where designers and developers can collaborate in a single environment. Albeit a really ambitious idea for such a small team (3 devs and 1 designer), it's a good fit for us - we knew we were experienced enough to be able to navigate when productising and designing such a complex product.

Nope! Flying by the seat of my pants and will iterate as I go along. I trust that if I find my product highly useful, others will, too. So far response has been slow, but the people who are using my product LOVE it.

I think a digital product is never finished and it always swivels left and right to try and feel comfortable within it's niche. I am confident about our product, I do believe we have a good product-market fit, but our numbers in the year will show if this hypothesis is correct. From past experience initial product market fit does not necessarily yield long term need.