#positioning

5 notes tagged “positioning”.

• Copy or innovate? Differentiating in a "saturated" app categoryJake Castillo's view that saturation means proven demand (win with a novel, easier feature or a hyper-specific niche, and avoid social apps), Gleam's "copy Duolingo's defaults, add a twist", and Nami/Storemaven's warning against copying competitors' pricing and paywalls without knowing why.
• Credibility vs relatability — matching creator, hook and buyerDawson Gibbs's framework — considered purchases (flights, buying a business) need credible creators ("I'm an ex-flight attendant"), impulse products need relatable ones ("I'm broke like you") — and how a wrong creator ICP brought 45% churn at SMB Market until older creators and borrowed credibility fixed it.
• Identity and desire angles — selling who the buyer becomesAngles that sell through the buyer's self-image rather than product features — mirror not product, bigger scarier problem, lived experience, sell the dream, remove blame, plus five imagination methods (flip the status, hijack the myth, hidden door, ritual, superpower).
• Name a problem mechanism and a solution mechanismWhy sales copy should name how the problem arises and how your product uniquely solves it (Purple's GelFlex Grid, Scrub Daddy's FlexTexture), a 10-word test to check you have one, and how demonstrations prove it.
• Organic content that converts vs content that only gets viewsWhy a 41M-view Coconote video earned nothing, and the patterns that do convert — product framed as a solution or identity (not a toy), talking-to-camera formats over looping text, subtle-but-unmissable integrations, and judging creators on paying, retained users.