How to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Why HN readers recommended it

HN founders recommend it as a must-watch on recognizing real product-market fit and avoiding solutions in search of problems.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stanford Online

Topic

product-market fit

Format

lecture

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• You and your team should watch this 3 times right now: [VIDEO] It’s about finding product market fit after a few different products. It talks about how their new successful product (150 staff) is a small feature from one of their other products and how …

• Having followed this exact playbook to validate several products I can confidently say this will give you false positives and the only reliable way to determine when you have PMF is: accidentally get PMF on something so that you know what it feels like (it’s …

• Jason Lemkin recommends giving it 24 months to start a B2B SaaS. B2B SaaS is a long road despite the big splashes sometimes seen like Slack or Intercom. [LINK] Also watch the CEO of Segment talk about their journey to product market fit. [VIDEO]