AI Product Research
AI Product Research and Validation Guides and Resources
Evaluate AI products through interviews, competitor analysis, App/Web choices, and observed product experiences.
Translate feature highlights into the work users need to complete. Competitive analysis, AI interviews, application insights, subscription reports, and browser or search-tool evaluations support that process. Define the user task, alternatives, access points, iteration needs, and retention conditions. A striking demo or a funding announcement does not establish validated demand.
Articles and supporting resources
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- Article Atlas Is Going Away, but OpenAI Should Not Push People Out of the Browser Atlas may be discontinued, but its deeper lesson is about keeping people and agents together in the same browser workspace.
- Article Perplexity: The AI Company That Has Become Essential as Air Perplexity stands out in the AI wave by offering a minimalist search experience that filters noise, becoming an indispensable starting point for power users.
- Article Your User Research Is Outdated: Anthropic's AI Interviewed 1,250 People and Uncovered Data's 'Subconscious' Anthropic used AI to conduct deep interviews with 1,250 professionals, revealing hidden workplace AI behaviors and creative workers' anxieties, signaling the future of qualitative research at scale.
- Article How to Analyze AI Product Competitors the Right Way By Mr. Guo Let’s talk about something politically incorrect: **copying**. In AI, the iteration cycle is counted in months. You spot an AI agent or PPT tool...
- Article The Right Way to Do AI Competitive Analysis: Dao, Fa, Qi, Shu Master competitive analysis in the AI era with the Dao-Fa-Qi-Shu framework — shift from static imitation to dynamic insight, discover market gaps, and find your winning battlefield.
- Article OpenAI's Atlas Browser: Really Just a 'Chrome Shell'? A Jianghu-Style Deep Dive! OpenAI's Atlas browser isn't a Chrome shell — it's a completely new OWL architecture execution platform built for AI Agents, achieving 'sword-wielder separation' for efficiency and security.
- Article AI Snake Oil Exposed (Part 1): Why I Call This $500K-Funded AI Product a Scam Exposing how YC star AI product Waldium wraps a basic CMS in 'GEO' hype — stay alert to AI gold rush scams.
- Article App or Web? The Ultimate Soul Question for Indie Developers Going Global (Decision Matrix Included) How should indie developers choose between App and Web when going global? This article provides a decision matrix to help evaluate acquisition, iteration, and monetization.
- Article The Indie Dev 'Three Kingdoms': Frontend, Backend, or PM—Who Has Better Odds? Decoding the indie dev 'Three Kingdoms': which background—frontend, backend, or PM—has better odds, and how to choose your optimal path in the AI era.