Summary: In this episode, we reveal All Turtles’ highly scientific approach to classifying early-stage products: the Flying-shoe, the Costner, and the Play-doh. We also examine the most common reasons for failure -- and success -- of these products. Along the way, we describe being insulted by chatbots and how to improve Netflix recommendations. Show Notes Welcome (0:13) Everyday encounters with artificial intelligence (3:03) Phil: Making an online restaurant reservation (3:52) Resy app - “The conversation has ended.” Jessica: Text messaging with a political action program that uses a bot (8:30) Blaise: Netflix recommendations (13:51) How to create separate Netflix profiles for more accurate suggestions The All Turtles taxonomy for early-stage products and their potential failure points (15:20) The Blockchain - it’s not solving a real problem (18:38) Flying Shoe - Whoa, is it possible?! (19:27) Failure modalities: DaVinci - Can be imagined, but it can't be built (21:06) Jetpack - Doesn't deliver on its promise (22:10) H.W. Bush - Already exists and we just didn't know about it (22:43) Costner - Totally possible! But if you build it, will they come? (24:27) Failure modalities: Waterworld - Too long to get to market and costs too much money (25:00) Golf - Boring and we don't care (e.g. ad tech use case) (25:27) New Coke - There's already a better version of this (26:40) Timeshare - No plausible exit or sustainable financial path forward (27:24) Segway - People don't actually want it (28:30) Play-Doh - What is it? How will it work? What's the experience like? (30:04) Failure modalities: No particular failure modalities, but the product idea must become a Flying Shoe or a Costner to continue (31:19) Spot: record and report workplace harassment (32:30) Listener questions (35:42) What does the crew find most useful in building a customer base as a product is introduced and gains traction? (35:55) In mystical episode 23, you mentioned you’re hiring. As a developer myself, finding awesome people to hire is always a challenge. Can you talk a bit about your hiring process? How do you interview technical people? (39:07) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.
