Great read! With Generative Apps, what do you test for to identify a product as a "product" vs a "feature"? For example, some of the autocomplete tasks are awesome, but unlikely to be a full-blown product in itself right?
Great point Aqil. Agreed that there will be plenty of generative apps that look more like features than a product in itself (or taking it to the next step, a viable company based around that product). One litmus test is to see how users interact with that app - are they getting enough use out of it that they are willing to replace their current tools with it, and possibly even pay for it? Does it have enough of a competitive moat where larger companies with distribution couldn't necessarily just copy it and release it to their own audience? For example we are seeing large existing companies like Notion and Coda start to integrate generative text into their own products, and it will be interesting to see how that stacks up with a "pure play" generative app.
Great read! With Generative Apps, what do you test for to identify a product as a "product" vs a "feature"? For example, some of the autocomplete tasks are awesome, but unlikely to be a full-blown product in itself right?
Great point Aqil. Agreed that there will be plenty of generative apps that look more like features than a product in itself (or taking it to the next step, a viable company based around that product). One litmus test is to see how users interact with that app - are they getting enough use out of it that they are willing to replace their current tools with it, and possibly even pay for it? Does it have enough of a competitive moat where larger companies with distribution couldn't necessarily just copy it and release it to their own audience? For example we are seeing large existing companies like Notion and Coda start to integrate generative text into their own products, and it will be interesting to see how that stacks up with a "pure play" generative app.