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Jake Counsell
Jake Counsell

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The way vibe coders are building is broken and not aligned with how successful startups and product teams build.

Every successful startup does market research, competitive analysis, ICP substitute behavior mapping, and customer complaint / delight sentiment analysis; then based off that data they find a competitive feature wedge for their ICP. After they’ve found their wedge they create an MVP, rarely have they talked to a single customer at this point. Once their MVP is finished they start talking to customers, synthesize the feedback and then iterate or pivot their MVP.

Meanwhile, you started vibing based off an idea, did zero real world research, asked a few mutuals “would you pay for this bro”. Then once your product is done you complain about distribution being your problem and go weeks without iterating the product.

LaunchChair gives you the structure of a product team and holds your hand through the research, helps you rapidly create your MVP with an auto-generated PRD / spec / MVP blueprint, then based off that PRD and spec helps you actually build the MVP with feature by feature prompts that save on token usage and force your LLM to write better code and solid structure for scale.

Building is fun. But building for actual user pain is smart! Validate your ideas now for free, no credit card needed! https://www.launchchair.io

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