How do you plan new features to develop for your product?

Deniz Sutaş
20 replies
I find customer interviews most helpful when it comes to this. Whatever active users might need is likely to improve our platform as a whole. What are your alternate methods of identifying new features to add on your products?

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Anton Zorin
Are you asking about feature prioritization or writing feature descriptions for developers?
Deniz Sutaş
@tonyzorin hi Anton thank you for your response, I'm talking about deciding which features to develop before those stages.
Anton Zorin
@deniz_sutas Ahh, okay. In this case, it boils down to research. Define ICP (ideal customer profile), and research the problem and the market. Customer feedback is a crucial part of it.
Katherine Connor
Conduct market research and analyze customer feedback to identify pain points and areas for improvement.
Taylah Drury
Continuously gather and incorporate feedback from customers and stakeholders to ensure that new features meet their needs and expectations.
Anton Zorin
@taylah_drury I'll be non-promoting myself :)
anna_ch_anna
I also think user interviews are effective. However, I think we need to interview a large number of users to collect reliable data. And we need to focus on common opinions.
Deniz Sutaş
@anna_choi definitely, the more the better. Still, a few consistent anecdotes from a handful of loyal users would be valuable I think.
Zane Maum
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Create user stories and prototypes to test and validate new features before implementation.
Deniz Sutaş
@prathamnandha thank you! Could you elaborate please? I would love to hear what you are doing in this regard.
Well, we like to throw darts at a whiteboard full of potential features and see what sticks. Just kidding, we also listen to customer feedback and conduct extensive research on industry trends. But the dart idea is still on the table... 😂✋🚀
@deniz_sutas Nothing seems fun for devs, you guys are too serious ahahhahahahah
Deniz Sutaş
@realvladgolub sounds fun, probably not as much for the developers though :D
Margen Stepa
Small Design Tools
Small Design Tools
1. Users feedback 2. Competitors research 3. ChatGPT for a bit of creativeness 😄
Deniz Sutaş
@otto8_ wow, I should definitely ask ChatGPT about this! Eventually I would have to run it through existing users to validate the idea though right?