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Welcome to VDPS, the home of Digital Product School's product development insights. Whether you work in a product team or advise one, here you have direct access to the latest methods and insights proven in the field of successful product innovation.
What Is VDPS?
VDPS is a collection of clever AI tools connected to the work and insights generated by hundreds of product teams developing innovative products to solve real-world challenges. It is like your personal assistant with constant access to the latest findings in product development. It gives you peace of mind because you never have to wonder again if your approach is outdated or unlikely to work in your context. Give it a try!
Pain Point Checker
What It Does
Do you think you found a proper pain point during your problem interview? Well, let’s see. With our Pain Point Checker, you can determine if you've already identified a pain point or if you should dig deeper. This assistant does not just rip your supposed pain point. It also provides suggestions on what to ask the user to dig deeper and uncover the core of the problem.
When To Use It
Whenever you think you have come across a pain, but are unsure whether it is the core of the problem. Or, maybe you don’t know how to phrase it or are uncertain if you have enough context to wrap the pain point in.
Assumption Assassin
What It Does
A validation coach that challenges assumptions, uncovers blind spots, and designs experiments to test your ideas before you waste time or money.
When To Use It
Whenever you have an assumption, idea or thought, and you need inspiration for next steps to find out how substantial it is or what else to think of.
Fake Press Release Builder
When To Use It
As soon as you have one or more product ideas. It can be your first check if your idea sings to you, helps you to decide which of your ideas you should try out first, or simply to communicate your idea in the team or towards stakeholders or investors. It will also help you and your team to keep the focus and to fight feature creep.
What It Does
This assistant bothers you with pesky questions about the problem you are solving, your target group, and your solution. It then generates a Fake Press Release, a nice little one-pager that communicates your Problem-Solution Fit in a very handsome way.
Lean DPS Canvas Builder
When To Use It
Whenever you need to understand your current approach and need a handy container to communicate your Problem Solution Fit and its important surroundings, like target group, cost, unique value proposition, etc., you can use the Lean Canvas. The DPS version also contains a section that serves as a checklist for your product's AI potential. It is more detailed than a Fake Press Release.
What It Does
This tool guides you through all the sections of the Lean DPS Canvas by asking questions. If your answers are not concise enough, it digs deeper with follow-up questions. The result will be content you can paste into your Lean DPS Canvas Template. You can skip sections that are not relevant (yet).
URL Association Analyzer
When To Use It
Whenever you discuss potential URLs to purchase or want to learn how users unfamiliar with your website would perceive the URL, it helps you decide which domain to buy and check whether users have associations you might not want to trigger.
What It Does
This simulates an association test for the website name you chose or are considering. You will learn how trustworthy different target groups find your URL, how easy or difficult it is to say and what kind of product or service they assume behind it.
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“I finally stopped second-guessing every article, course or framework. VDPS gives me exactly what I need for my daily job and my career.”
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“We used to rely on gut feelings. Now, we rely on methods that have helped other teams succeed. VDPS saved us months of trial and error regarding the methods so we could focus on trial and error regarding our product.”
Everything in the Founder's Delight Plan, plus the license to use all the tools and contents with your clients including a white label option
“VDPS gives me peace of mind and lets me stay current with the latest product information. I can then forward all the knowledge, tips, and tricks to my clients through an experience I branded as my own.”
A Selection Of Product Teams You Will Learn From
Here, you find a selection of the DPS teams whose experiences have been used to train the VDPS tools.
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