From product-skills
Prepares interview guides and conducts user interviews for customer discovery using The Mom Test and YC's Five Questions to surface real problems.
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Run user interviews that surface real problems, not polite lies. Most interviews fail because the interviewer pitches their idea and asks "would you use this?" The Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick) fixes this: talk about their life, not your idea.
Provides question bank, synthesis templates, and anti-patterns for customer interviews in product discovery. Useful for planning interviews or synthesizing insights from user research.
Provides frameworks for discovery, validation, usability, and generative user interviews with question scripts, techniques, and analysis for product research.
Generates structured user discovery interview guides with screener questions, discussion guides, and synthesis frameworks for user interviews, customer discovery, JTBD research, or problem validation.
Share bugs, ideas, or general feedback.
Run user interviews that surface real problems, not polite lies. Most interviews fail because the interviewer pitches their idea and asks "would you use this?" The Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick) fixes this: talk about their life, not your idea.
Use these as the backbone of every interview. They work in order — each question digs deeper.
What's the hardest part about [doing the thing you're exploring]? Opens with their pain, not your solution.
Tell me about the last time you encountered that problem. Forces specifics. Past behavior > hypothetical opinions.
Why was that hard? Uncovers root cause. Their first answer is usually surface-level.
What, if anything, have you done to try to solve this? Existing workarounds = real pain. No workarounds = not painful enough.
What don't you love about the solutions you've tried? Reveals gaps in existing alternatives. This is your opportunity space.
These rules override all default interviewing instincts:
After the Five Questions, probe for signal strength:
references/interview-guide-template.md for the full question template when building an interview guide.Built on The Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick), YC's Five Questions (Eric Migicovsky), and Gustaf Alstromer's follow-up framework. Skills from productskills.