I built a bingo app for a 9-night cruise: 845 squares, 61 bingos. Two weeks later, the same code ran a weekend for another host: 27 squares, no bingos.
The code traveled. The product—prompts, a dinner ritual, a host tuning it live—didn't.
A second customer shows which parts of a v1 were product.
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The Code Wasn’t the Product | Nathan Payne
Same code, second event, different host: 845 marks became 27. The platform generalized; the product—occasion-fit prompts, a group that talked about it at dinner, a host tuning it live—did not.
