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Interview, Fireside Chat

It only really matters if you can find a handful of users that use your product habitually.

Y Combinator
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  • Founders at the earliest stage should prioritize identifying users who habitually use their product over vanity metrics like total signups or waitlist counts.
  • High-signup numbers are considered secondary and irrelevant unless the product successfully integrates into users' daily workflows.
  • The defining success criterion is the ability to retain a core group of users who return repeatedly to the product.
  • Without evidence of habitual usage and retention, other performance metrics lose significance regardless of their magnitude.