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What are some challenges you faced when you started working on your product?

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What are some challenges you faced when you started working on your product?

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Working on a new product can take an immense amount of planning and dealing with challenges before you even get started designing! What are the one or two most significant challenges you faced when putting your product together? Was it finding suitable funding? Deciding who you would work with or anything else.

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E-commerce specialist

Make the business plan, budget the feasibility study, find a good business model

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

@fares_aktouf All of these are of enormous importance, and I know you must have put a lot of effort into them. If you would like to share which product you are working on.

Nebuly founding team 🚀 accelerating AI

Choosing between innovation and reducing adoption friction!

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

@auri_mgg It's tough, and what is the toughest is to convince others.

marketingbaba.in

Assembling a good team. Hiring is not easy.

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

@marketing_baba I agree. In fact, it is one of the most challenging things, especially at an early stage.

Digital tinkerer 👨‍💻

The hardest thing for me was to say no to another "great feature" I wanted to add to the mvp. This killed many of my ideas even before I showed it to anyone.

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

@feriforgacs I know it's hard to hold on to yourself when you want to add so many features to your product, but you have to choose only a few for your MVP

Building ideaisland.io - immunologist

Marketing. We are both technical founders so we had to split up and one had to learn how to market a product, while one focused on building

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

@dylan_merideth I can feel it because I, too, had to opt to learn at least some essential marketing.

I study languages: En, Ge, Ro.

Before you start planning, you must clearly understand what goals you want to achieve, what and who you need for this, and how much time it can take to implement. If you have an idea about this, you can roughly estimate how much funding is needed. And already based on this, you can understand where or from whom you can find financial support.

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

are@new_user_11620223ff4de5436 From what I got, planning and having a complete understanding of your industry is of utmost importance, and it can be a challenge at the start.

Building BirdMojo

My main challenge has always been that I'm a non-technical founder!

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

@maxwellcdavis Yes, this might have been a great challenge for you, but you must have been able to contribute a lot in the non-technical domains like marketing and planning, etc.

Medical Doctor / Machine learning

Choosing the right web design tool :D

I am the Product Owner @ BRAVO!

Growth @ Findz | Launching Soon 🚀

Building a product is hard. I still remember in the initial days when we were building Findz ( https://www.producthunt.com/upco... ), we were literally knocking our heads off to decide the features we want on the app and the ones we don't.

We are finally ready with our releases and looking forward to launching Findz this month. I will really appreciate if you can take a moment to check out the app. Are you working on something? I would love to know more about it.

yolo | CTO @ Sahha.ai

Things take a lot longer than you expect, getting funding/investment often increases this as at that point you'd likely be looking at moving away from MVP or first versions of things and into more robust builds of your project.

Finding the right people! I've been blessed with my team, but I often hear horror stories of teams not working well together. Spend time finding good people, that work well together. This can make product development super fast, and easy. I'd take a lower skilled team-player over a highly skilled but arrogant person any day of the week.

oVice - Metaverse for Business

There were a lot of them and some are ongoing. Taking a walk down the memory lane I'd mention: 1. Launching the product soon after the COVID pandemic broke. There was still a lot of confusion and fear so encouraging the team to be productive took our founder extra work. 2. Educating prospects on why they need our product: the benefit behind our solution (a virtual office) isn't immediately obvious to everyone so we had to find ways to explain how the platform benefits teams. 3. Working as an international team - getting used to time zone differences and language barriers took some time. 4. Hiring: we had to scale fast so the pace of looking for and onboarding new talent was (and still is) crazy.

Software developer at heart

If you are making an innovative product, it will take longer than planned. It's always a challenge on how to proceed when it happens.

Co-founder @ Peerlist.io

I had a lot of struggles with discipline and prioritization in the beginning. Which used to make me feel that the startup has a lot of chaos. Now, the chaos is still there, it's just I learned how to deal with that! 😃

Building bridges between cultures

To keep going. That's why I have joined a community of like-minded people at the Wannabe Entrepreneur Space: https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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