How To Create Early Access Surveys For a New Product Or Feature
When you want to create a new product or feature that people love, your goal should be to learn as much as you can before you’ve launched it. Before you’ve even written a single line of code or designed a single pixel. This tactic is called early access, and it’ll help you learn the most painful problems people have before you invest your resources in creating the product or new feature.
Hiten Shah of Product Habits shares the types of questions to include in your survey. Plus, examples of the best survey questions to include based on 100s of early access surveys that we’ve helped create.
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