[stefanlindbohm]

Building is a very expensive way of finding user needs, especially since you might rely on luck to start out even in the right ballpark.

I think of innovative products as the combination of a user need insight and an innovative solution. I think there’s a lot of time wasted when teams focus too much on iterating on one without the other.

If you’re a technologist who sees the potential in a particular technology, you need to start by thinking about how to navigate towards applying it to a real user need. The flipside happens too, where a team sees a need and gets stuck in circles because they lack the tech expertise to build a solution that delivers & is competitive (but surely less commonly in the HN crowd).

Someone good at one of these things but less interested in the other should find a co-founder who’s good at the other perspective.