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Free templates from The Code Was Never the Hard Part
The four tools from the book, in the order you use them: choose a problem, talk to the people who have it, fit the idea on one page, and decide what launch success means before you ship. Print them, or type straight into them.
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Chapter 2
The five-question filter
Five questions to run any problem through before you build. They tell you if it's worth your time.
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Chapter 4
The conversation guide
Five interview questions about what people have already done, and a scale for scoring what you heard.
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Chapter 5
The one-page concept
Nine lines that fit your whole idea on one page: who it's for, what it does, why it wins, and how the money works.
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Chapter 5
Launch thresholds
The numbers that decide whether your product earned more of your time, written before you launch.
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