2 resources from UserOnboard we point founders to, and the questions each answers.
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Hulick pulls apart the first run experience of well known apps screen by screen, showing what each step costs and what it earns. Reading a few teardowns trains your eye to spot the dead steps in your own flow. It is the fastest way to learn what a lean first session actually looks like.
Samuel Hulick tears down real onboarding flows slide by slide, and the Slack one shows how a product teaches itself inside the app instead of piling on tutorial screens. Reading a concrete teardown trains your eye to spot which steps carry value and which are just friction. Start here, then browse his full teardown list for other flows close to yours.