The Full-Stack Researcher
Guides, Case Studies, & Actionable Advice for Mixed-Methods User Research
Shreyas Doshi's Guide to Validating & Prioritising Ideas
Shreyas Doshi named Customer Problem Stack Ranking at Stripe. It asks customers to rank your problem against every other problem they have. We ran it on ourselves and our own problem statement came 45th out of 45.
What Is Stack Ranking: Meaning, Examples, Templates, Advice
This guide covers everything you need to know about stack ranking — from its meaning and examples of stack ranking used in real life, to some simple templates and actionable advice to consider.
Pairwise Comparison (Definition, Methods, Examples, Tools)
The Ultimate Guide. What is pairwise comparison? What are the best pairwise comparison methods? Best pairwise comparison tools? Examples of pairwise ranking surveys? …
Web3 Won’t Save Us: How product analytics contaminates decentralized movements
There’s a fatal flaw in the foundations that web3 is being built on. Unless we correct it soon, no amount of decentralization, DAOs or composability will be able to save it.
The Autonomy Gap: The Secret Ingredient for Community-Led Growth
The secret ingredient powering Community-Led Growth for the world's best tech startups.
How to calculate Impact for RICE Scoring
RICE asks you to score each feature's Impact, and most PMs just guess. Here's how to fill that number with real customer voting data in eight steps.
Does every startup need to solve a problem?
The three traits of a problem worth building a startup on: painful, frequent, and replicable.
How to find free participants for your survey
No budget for buying participants? Three free ways to find people to take your survey: your community, public promotion, and personal direct outreach.
The Innovation Fallacy: Understanding When Startups Shouldn't Innovate.
Innovating on everything wastes time and confuses users. Innovate only on your point of differentiation and copy the well-worn path for the rest.
Customer Problem Stack Ranking: How Stripe Validates New Product Ideas
Shreyas Doshi named Customer Problem Stack Ranking at Stripe in May 2020. It ranks your idea against every other problem your customers face. Seven steps, a worked example, and what happened when we ran it on ourselves.