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Jobs to be done 0:32

A 32-second explainer of Jobs to be done, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.

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Jobs to be done is the idea that people don't want your product, they want the progress it gives them - they "hire" it to do a job. Focus on the job, not the feature or the demographic, and you design for what people are actually trying to achieve.

"A faster horse" became "get there sooner"; "a drill" became "a hole in the wall". Once you see the job behind the request, the solution space opens up - and you stop building features nobody actually hired you for.

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