What product market fit feels like

This is great.

Honestly when you have PMF the users wind up doing a lot of the hard marketing work for you. New users just keep showing up. Old ones continue to preach. The product takes on a life of its own, regardless of your own influence.

Spot on. When you got it, you'll wonder how you lived without it.

I appreciated how this article showed some metrics but also spoke to the actual feeling of have PMF. I think these soft-skills (the ability to sense certain things and use one's intuition) are often overlooked, but they're super important.

And the ten points at the bottom, lol. I hope one day to be so lucky as to experience even one of those situations (well, I could live without having an incompetent sales team or "doing almost everything wrong"), but other than that the feeling must be so exciting.

Nice article 😊

So real 😅

lol great thread

that sums it up perfectly "more like a feeling than a number".

Maybe was easier 40 years ago. I know someone who reduced telephone's cost by 99% for consumers. That's obvious product market fit.

People often mistake high customer acquisition as PMF, but like the author says, it's retention. Don't get me wrong, high acquisition is a good indicator that you're doing something right... but it's not necessarily PMF. Could be... coining a term here... marketing-market-fit? Or brand-market-fit. Yeah that sounds better. 🤪

Beware of BMF! It's a red herring!

Great post. On the WBE Space i am retaining 50% of the users or more but the problem is really getting those users in the first place