Product Hacks — Edition 7We’re back! It’s your favorite product email of the week where we cheer on the product managers or entrepreneurs that are grinding daily to build great products that SELL! Let’s dive in!

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I love feedback! I recently got some good feedback along the lines of “Ben your email is too f*cking long”. So we’re doing things a bit differently today. We’re going light! Like avocado mayo, Coke Zero, or any of those garbage alternatives light. Except they’re not going to suck. They’re going to taste just like the original but even better.

Here are 5 pro tips to not suck as at building products that SELL!

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1. The last 10% of your product development will take 90% of your time in many cases. Plan for this.
2. Always involve your development and design team in the product roadmap creation. It will save you a sh*t ton of time!
3. Ask yourself three questions before starting any product build: “What if we didn’t build this?” “Is this a problem we really need to solve right now?” “How do we actually know anyone really cares about this?”
4. All your customer cares about is that your product solves their problem. Nothing else!
5. Try selling your product before you build anything. This is how you build products that sell.

That’s it! I’m going to stop typing before I can’t help myself. Here’s my favorite design find and I’ll see you all next week!

Design Matters

This week’s design find was actually a new font. Pretty sweet brush script from Emyself Design based out of Indonesia. This is almost as cool as Bali 🏝️ Check it out!

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Check out the project on Behance!

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Me! No cool sponsors this week for the dozens of readers. So you all get our hero, Mr. Elon Musk, because his products go to space and that’s where our logo is from.

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About The Writer:

Ben Sampson is a product nerd and current co-founder at WeHero. He has built 4 companies in the past 10 years, and worked as a consultant for 4 years helping some of the largest companies in the world like Bloomberg, Dun & Bradstreet, etc. make some of the best products in company history.

Yes, I wrote this in 2nd person because it just sounds sooo much cooler! See you all on Twitter or LinkedIn.