Product Quality vs Marketing

The cluster debates the primacy of building a great, valuable product that people want to buy over relying on marketing, sales, or other strategies, with most arguing that product excellence is essential for success.

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Sample Comments

scarface_74 β€’ Jul 28, 2023 β€’ View on HN

If you can’t make a product that convinces enough people to give you money, that seems like a you problem

beat β€’ Jan 15, 2016 β€’ View on HN

Or "If you don't build a great product, nothing else you do matters".

JSDevOps β€’ Jul 11, 2024 β€’ View on HN

How about just make a good product? That tends to work.

kreid1 β€’ Sep 17, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Make a product people want to use.

andix β€’ Jul 22, 2022 β€’ View on HN

Only very few companies can build a working business model without a good product.

latchkey β€’ Jan 7, 2023 β€’ View on HN

Build a product your customers want.

tsunamifury β€’ May 17, 2016 β€’ View on HN

Have a good product people want, the rest is mostly sub-optimization.

geometricstripe β€’ Nov 2, 2019 β€’ View on HN

Forget marketing and just make a great product.

mritchie712 β€’ Mar 30, 2023 β€’ View on HN

building a valuable product doesn't make you successful in 2023? Please, elaborate.

onion2k β€’ Nov 5, 2013 β€’ View on HN

"...we haven't perfected out product yet."You're aware that that won't ever happen, right? Focus on making it useful, then focus on selling it to people.