Great stuff here…

Once you start cutting features, development gets even more fun.  What’s left is a much better (and easier to articulate) product that often ends up being superior to the one you originally wanted to build if you had all the resources in the world.

tedr:

caterpillarcowboy:

1. “If Apple can launch a smartphone without Find or Cut-and-Paste, what can you cut out of your product requirements?” – Sramana Mitra
2. USV-backed foursquare uses Google Docs to collect customer feedback. No code, no maintenance.
3. Fliggo sells it before they build it.
4. Grockit puts up a notify-me-when-you-release form on steroids.
5. Auto e-commerce site uses manualation and flintstoning for their backend.
6. Semiconductor company uses 5 people and FPGAs to build a $100M semiconductor product line.
7. Consumer company uses fake screenshots to sell their product.
8. Allicator uses Facebook ads: “Ditch Digger? Feeling spread thin? Click here to complete a survey and tell us about it.”
9. ManyWheels uses Microsoft Visio to build clickable web demos for prospective customers.
10. Cloudfire uses a classic customer development problem presentation.

RockYou uses clickable PDF to do usability testing on products they are considering releasing.