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The product loop

Ship, watch, measure, fix: run the loop real product teams live in, on your product, today.

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9:15
start
45m
duration
2
exercises
3
things you leave with
Welcome

Every app on your phone is a loop, not a line: ship, watch users, measure, fix, ship again. Today you run that loop for real. Your gauntlet logs and homework observations go in, a ranked fix list comes out, and you make the call every founder faces: persevere, zoom, or pivot.

You walk out with
✓A ranked fix list
✓An explicit, defended decision
✓Analytics on your live product
Why this session exists

You will want to persevere out of attachment, not evidence. Saying the decision out loud with the evidence line that earns it forces the honest read.

The arc, minute by minute
9:15
The three loops: build, product, growth; today is the product loop
9:22
Famous loops: Instagram was Burbn, YouTube was a dating site
9:32
Watch what they do: gauntlet logs + home logs become a ranked fix list
9:42
Persevere, zoom, or pivot: the call, with evidence; opinions lie, a counter never does
9:55
Start the fix list; the 10:00 studio finishes it, the 10:35 block builds it
Exercises
01
Fix-list synthesis
Gauntlet log + homework observations into Claude: cluster, rank by user pain, cap at five.
02
The decision
One sentence, one evidence line, said to the room.
prompt · give this to the room verbatim
Here are observation notes from users trying my product. Cluster the confusions into patterns, rank them by how much they block the core action, and give me a fix list of at most 5 items. Then tell me: does this evidence say persevere, zoom in on one feature, or pivot?
Tools in play
ClaudeKimi Code
Materials to prep
Evidence memosYesterday's fix lists
The checkpoint · nothing counts unless it is live
Decision + fix list on the wall before break.
The handoff · what the next session assumes
Leave withA ranked fix list, five items max, by user pain
DecidedPersevere, zoom or pivot: said aloud, with evidence, survived the room
Bring nextThe afternoon builds only what survived the call
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