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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 28/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 74 - It's time to be bolder with our positioning.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 24/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 72 - It was too spooky to do a real build in public so I talked about fog.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 22/02/2025

Lol Eli farming us for content.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 22/02/2025

It's that time again #buildinpublic Link me your project. I'll try it out and give you feedback.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 22/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 72 - LinkedIn will be our main source of leads going forward...but lawdy do I hate the algorithm. #marketing

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 21/02/2025

Chasing that wagon lifestyle

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 20/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 71 - Within a year PMs went from retracting at the mention of AI, to basically requesting it replace them. What changed? #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 19/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 70 - Dont listen to wannabe influencers. You're allowed to raise capital.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 18/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 69 - It took a year, but people aren't comparing us to notion as much now. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 17/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 68 - In most small tech companies, product decisions are made by the CTO. They often don't have product people. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 15/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 68 - The month long outbound experiment comes to a close. Thus starts the next month - SEO

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 12/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 63 - PMs seem quite interested in AI features, but we're not really sure on our end how to add real value with them. Magic RICE scoring? #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 10/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 62 - PMs don't love Gantt charts, they're just expected to use them for everything. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 08/02/2025

What have you got for me this week #buildinpublic? Link me your startup. I'll try it out and give you feedback.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 08/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 61 - "this will make you look good to your boss". Is that the only selling point that really matters?

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 07/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 60 - Is there any data on whether data-driven decisions beat emotion driven ones? #productsky

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 06/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 59 - I don't have a #grindset mindset. Today's focus is on not working.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 05/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 58 - My initial response rate of 30% has dropped to 5. Is outbound worth it?

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 04/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 57 - A few months ago I explored the idea of selling to gamedevs. It wasn't a success...

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 03/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 56 - Lots of people out there will never admit they have any problems. It's true for life, and it's true for discovery interviews. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 02/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 55 - Looking for a good problem to solve? It exists, but you won't find it doomscrolling.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 01/02/2025

Ok #buildinpublic. It's that time again. Link your startup below. I'll give you constructive feedback.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 01/02/2025

#buildinpublic Day 54 - Linear's estimated burndowns are really useful. We want to do something similar for planning. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 30/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 53 - Vitality isn't a growth strategy. Your bottleneck is exposure to opportunity. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 29/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 52 - The number one complaint I hear about product teams is that they are a black box. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 28/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 51 - good positioning makes everything else a little easier. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 27/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 50 - Cold outreach over DMs sucks. I'm trying to find a way to get more value from it. #sales

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 25/01/2025

Happy to dive into this a bit more if you like

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 25/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 49 - Shit happens. You shouldn't feel guilty for changing your roadmap. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 20/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 48 - "Plan like a founder" was a little too aggressive, so I changed it. Also, much love to the sdrs out there. ♥️

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 19/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 47 - Turns out doing a heap of discovery calls is an extremely transferable sales skill.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 18/01/2025

I got stuck on verification. no emails came through unfortunately.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 18/01/2025

I tried to sign up to tinylaunch and got this, so sorry I can't give you an upvote! I'll take a look at the product now.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 18/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 46 - I've moved from Apollo to Sales navigator but I feel like I'm moving at a snails pace. Any tips #sales?

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 15/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 45 - linear is successful because of their positioning, not their features. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 14/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 44 - Does anyone remember a product called Threads? It's gone now, and it looks like Campsite is too. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 13/01/2025

Surely AI will be the death of cold outreach. I was inbox zero for 10 years, but now I can't even be bothered opening 60% of my emails. The spammers have won.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 13/01/2025

Achievement unlocked. This is the first insight I've pulled into rough from bsky @finereli.com

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 13/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 43 - Is UX really that important? I used to think so but now I'm not so sure. #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 12/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 42 - tell me your horror and success stories about interns.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 10/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 40 - How does a feature go from in your head to production at your company? ^ my best discovery question. What's yours? #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 08/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 38 - first attempt at outreach yesterday. Went great!

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 06/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 38 - There is no playbook to starting a successful company. Being passionate is a huge tailwind.

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 05/01/2025

#buildinpublic Day 37 - you can now post insights on behalf of customers and team members. Make your own internal bluesky! #product

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 25/12/2024

#buildinpublic Day 34 - How do you make good #product decisions if you don't understand the problem you're solving?

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Jacob Duval @rough.app · 23/12/2024

#buildinpublic Day 31 - Whiteboards are really important for pitching, but ours felt broken. Now they're much better.

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