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Paul Graham

Product lessons from the essays: the problem, the core, users and redesign.

10 principles

01

Solve the right problem

02

Make simplicity structural

03

Give users building blocks

04

Make redesign cheap

05

Copy the reason, not the look

06

Ship a useful core

07

Watch users, not wishes

08

Handcraft the first mile

09

Show value immediately

10

Notice what chafes