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🧱 Build Like The Best

šŸ‘‰ I’ve been thinking a lot about focus, momentum, and not building the wrong things.

šŸ‘‹ Hey — Egemen here.

I’ve been writing this newsletter for about 1.5 years now every week, and this was one of the topics I first wrote about.

Now, this organically happened to me on a product I have been working on, so it’s a ā€œeverything coming full circleā€ moment for me.

When I first started, I thought growth was the hardest part (it still is hard).

But the thing I struggle the most with is staying focused.

You really don’t need 100 things done the first week.

Here we go:

šŸ’” Spotlight: Build Like The Best

🧠 Deep-Dive: Staying Focused

šŸ—ŗļø Method: Customer Health Scoring Model

āš¾ļø Catch: Sora 2

ā˜ļø Scaled This Past Week: Supernova

šŸ’” Spotlight

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Explore any topic across Zendesk, reviews, NPS, and social; quantify how many users are affected and why; and package insights with verbatim quotes stakeholders remember.

Product teams at companies like Canva, Notion and Perplexity use Enterpret to manage spikes, stack-rank work, and track sentiment after launches—so you can show impact, not just ship lists.

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🧠 Deep-Dive: Staying Focused

When I first got into startups, I thought momentum came from doing more.

Well, honestly, it doesn’t.

It comes from doing the one thing that actually moves the needle. I’ve seen teams (including mine) get stuck building features no one asked for. Busy, not growing.

I cannot believe some ā€œgospel adviceā€ from the likes of YC actually turns out to be true after all this time: Ship fast, learn faster.

Make something a small group really loves, not something a big group kind of likes. Let them pull you forward. Sell before you build. Cut the fluff, focus is your friend.

I remember watching teams chase features. They’d build, tweak, build again, always busy, never growing.
+ trust me, as great as some AI tools are these days, this still applies.

You don’t need to please everyone. Find that one core group of users, delight them, and let them pull you forward. Build what people actually want. Iterate small, learn fast.

šŸ‘‰ The tough thing is staying focused, knowing what to say no to (to yourself first).

šŸ—ŗļø Method: Customer Health Scoring Model

Here’s a little template I developed so you can track your customer health.

It quantifies a customer's overall relationship health by analyzing factors like product usage and satisfaction to predict future behavior, such as churn risk or opportunities for upselling.

āš¾ļø Catch: Sora 2

ā˜ļø Scaled This Past Week: Supernova

Supernova just raised $9.2M – it’s the scale of the week!

Supernova is a ā€œvibe-codingā€ product platform that unifies design, code, and product management so workflows aren’t all over the place (much needed btw).

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