A field guide, not a framework.<div><br></div><div>There’s a particular stage in building products where knowing how to build becomes a liability.</div><div><br></div><div>You have an idea. You can code it. You can probably have a first version running before you've properly figured out whether anyone actually needs it.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s where this guide starts.</div><div><br></div><div>A Beginner’s Roadmap to Product is a 14-page field guide for founders, junior PMs, and developers who can build but want to get better at figuring out what’s worth building in the first place.</div><div><br></div><div>It covers five phases:</div><div><br></div><div>01 — Discovery</div><div>Look at the world before your editor.</div><div><br></div><div>02 — The Problem</div><div>Separate what someone asks for from what's actually broken.</div><div><br></div><div>03 — Research</div><div>Talk to people about what they've actually done, not what they imagine they'll do.</div><div><br></div><div>04 — Hypothesis</div><div>Turn your best guess into something you can prove wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>05 — Execution</div><div>Build the cheapest thing that could give you an honest answer.</div><div><br></div><div>The central idea is simple:</div><div><br></div><div>Earn the right to build.</div><div><br></div><div>The goal isn't to make building harder. It's to make wasted building rarer.</div><div><br></div><div>Read the field guide below.</div>

A field guide for founders, junior PMs, and developers who can build anything and now need to learn what’s worth building.

A Beginner's Roadmap to Product

Worth reading if you're into guides / roadmaps. A field guide for founders, junior PMs, and developers who can build anything and now need to learn what’s worth building. From Chita John (O).

Read it here: https://packed.one/guides/a-beginners-roadmap-to-product