Josh O.

a guy that cares | building @getrensa ♻️ p2p resale marketplace. | co-founder @afriskaut ⚽️

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

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[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@eldivine Half of a yellow sun.

[Naval @naval]

Good Products are Opinionated.

“Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things.

Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do.

If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features.

@Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity.

You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google.

Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do.

You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it.

ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer.
It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer.

So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough.

To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting.

In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make.

In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@OoTheNigerian Hello OO, whats the best way to connect with you?

[Chris Frantz @frantzfries]

small quality of life increase

groups can now be toggled open/closed

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@margentambi Hello @margentambi sent you a DM.

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@0xhillman Check out @getRensa if you based in Lagos.

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@YongDim_ @YoriOlajide @BigBadReni @getRensa is currently doing its monthly auction for some pre-owned items.

Bid & win. All purchases are covered by Buyer Protection.

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[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@0xhillman @YoriOlajide If you based in Lagos, list on @getRensa .. it s secure secondhand marketplace for people moving or relocating. DM if you need any help.

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@Yoroomie @eoghan @marketplacevc Cool. Thanks for the quick response and for sharing this.

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@Yoroomie @eoghan @marketplacevc Hi @Yoroomie do you focus on US markets alone or anywhere?

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@oviosu 😅 am sorry just had to laugh... a friend of mine who's a Chelsea fan cried too knowing this. It is well.

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

💯

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

The only unbreakable moat is a founder who literally cannot imagine doing anything else.

Competitors can copy your features and VCs can fund your rivals, but they can't replicate the stubborn refusal to let a specific future die.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

The only unbreakable moat is a founder who literally cannot imagine doing anything else.

Competitors can copy your features and VCs can fund your rivals, but they can't replicate the stubborn refusal to let a specific future die.

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

"A great reason for failing won't preserve one dollar for your investors, won't save one employee's job, or get you one new customer"

Great story and advice

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@frantzfries One minor feedback, i think theres a better way the campaign or workflow list can be grouped or sorted. Especially Campaigns.

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@Dgeologist1 @leyeConnect I agree Microsoft has strong network effects. I just hope they give younger generation to switch. Cos Google has us hooked from our emails unlike older generations that started the internet era with yahoo, Hotmail etc.

[Josh O. @ChiefThrifter]

@Dgeologist1 @leyeConnect Why's that?

[Rensa Marketplace @getRensa]

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