Interviews praise, learn nothing?

Founder interviews collect compliments uselessly. Real pains stay hidden.

1. The problem

Founders run customer interviews collecting polite compliments exclusively. Real pains hide behind kindness. Features get requested misleadingly. Months build unwanted products. The hardest part is truth extraction kindly. A question might lead witness fully. That uncertainty makes it hard to build wanted things.

What people are saying

“Interviews flatter uselessly always. I need jobs-first scripts with trap flags.”

2. What exists

Mom Test, interview guides and recordings coach founders, while compliments persist. Books inform without live help. A recording might review too late. There is little help with jobs-first scripts plus red-flag detectors for founders.

3. The solution

The solution could be a truth-mining engine. It could script jobs-first questions simply. It could flag compliment traps live. Notes could structure automatically. The goal would be pains revealed, products wanted.

FAQ

Common questions from people facing this problem.

How to run customer interviews?

Ask past behaviors specifically.

How to avoid compliment traps?

Never pitch; ask stories.

How to synthesize interview notes?

Cluster pains visibly weekly.

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