6 post ideas to try
- 1Describe the false positive that made you think you had product-market fit when you didn't.
- 2Share the exact customer conversation or data point that told you you'd finally found PMF.
- 3Write about the feature you were sure would create PMF and the one that actually did, and why they were different.
- 4Tell the story of the pivot that led to product-market fit and the signal that told you to make it.
- 5Share what your metrics looked like before and after product-market fit, the contrast is the lesson.
- 6Describe how long finding PMF actually took and what you did to survive while searching.
Example hooks to grab attention
“For 14 months, I was convinced we had product-market fit. We had traction, revenue, happy users. We didn't have PMF.”
“You know you have product-market fit when customers start telling you what to build next. Here's when that happened to us.”
Tips for writing about this topic
- •Define what PMF looked like for your specific business, it's different for every company and that nuance is the value.
- •Share the metrics frankly. Before-and-after numbers tell the story better than any narrative.
- •Distinguish between traction and fit. Lots of startups have growth without PMF, this distinction is what makes your post useful.
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