Really nice startup postmortem that gets into specific reasons the founder thinks the product failed:
Most startup/product postmortems I read feel like some variant of "we were just too awesome and the world wasn't ready us", but this feels like a postmortem where the founder is really trying to understand what happened.
@danluu This is great. I want to read through it a few times to really grasp his points.
But at first glance, I found myself saying: this is a postmortem on ... what? The product idea, pitch, goal wasn't obvious to me.
A postmortem may not need that bit but it does speak to a potential problem, right? Clear and simple articulation of what X is and why you're worse off not using X today. Didn't get it here.
Dan Luu
Chris