Book · 250 pages

Time to Listen

Indi Young · indiyoung.com Paid Advanced

Young pushes past surface level feedback into a customer's actual reasoning and guiding principles, which matters once you are past launch and the easy problems are already fixed. It is a heavier read than a quick interview script, so pick it up once you want to understand why users behave the way they do, not just what they say they want. Best for a founder who has already run a few dozen calls and wants to go deeper.

  • Listen for a person's underlying thinking and principles, not just their stated request.
  • Group customers by how they think, not by demographics or plan tier.
  • Deeper listening finds opportunities that a simple feature request never surfaces.

The question it answers

  1. How do I keep learning from customers after launch instead of only doing research once at the start?

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