E116: A Mobile App’s Journey: From Spark to Market Fit with Om Suthar

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Om Suthar has designed products, apps, and services internationally, as well as published 10+ patents. He’s now working to help others build their physical, financial, and emotional well-being with his app, Sqrl.

Join us as we chat about building a product and how he’s finding product/market fit in a world that could use more good habits.

Episode highlights:

• What do you do when the product isn’t ready? Learn how Om got scrappy in testing.
• Learn Om’s process of building, testing, and adjusting.
• Learn the different mindsets of goals vs. values. (Which works for you – east or west coast?)
• Learn why Om didn’t build this product for traditional VCs.
• Find out how Om saw an opportunity in the small business world.
• Run time: 36:33
• Best advice ever received: Don’t be anyone else
• Habit that contributes to success: Gratitude expressed every morning

• Recommended book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Recommended tools: Notion

Links:

• Sqrl.me – can get the app from here
• Blog.sqrl.me
• Twitter – astr0mnaut
• [email protected]
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Notion

Quotes:

• “You start making happiness your way of being.”
• “Maybe I can figure out this product/market fit thing.”
• “I started with the problem.”
• “I just wanted to get to the core of it.”
• “People are good enough at shaming themselves.”
• “Technology shames us into this corner and we just expect it.”
• “It’s a gateway into wellbeing.”
• “Our problems don’t respect industry silos. We’re very fluid people.”
• “They will think of themselves as the market.”

Takeaways:

• Take the time to validate your product.
• Take time to test – even if you need to improvise the process!