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Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front

Name: Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front
Uploaded: 2019-07-22T21:48:06.817Z
Duration: 48 min 24 s
Description: Mathilde Collin describes Front as a shared inbox with collaboration features, initially built as a lightweight support tool with a bad MVP. She prioritizes features using a 1–3 scale balancing user impact and build complexity, and grew early customers through content writing and manual onboarding.

From Y Combinator · Published Jul 22, 2019 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

Mathilde Collin describes Front as a shared inbox with collaboration features, initially built as a lightweight support tool with a bad MVP. She prioritizes features using a 1–3 scale balancing user impact and build complexity, and grew early customers through content writing and manual onboarding.

Key insights

The most painful product decisions (e.g., reversing conversation order, new Front version) led to the biggest positive changes in user behavior.
Early customer acquisition strategy: write content on Medium/Hacker News, manually onboard each user, learn from drop-offs, then iterate features one at a time.
Having “no insight” into email as a first-time founder can be an advantage—a fresh perspective on a legacy protocol.

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