0-to-1 at a startup

Slack — Mine user chats

No formal research budget yet, so the support and sales channels become the research pool — real complaints in real customers' own words.

→ weekly

Claude — Synthesize the week(animated)

A prompt clusters the week's recurring asks out of the raw chat dump — one person doing the job of a synthesis team on no headcount.

v0 + Figma — Prototype in a day(animated)

A prompt generates a clickable shell in minutes, then gets pulled into Figma for the polish that actually matters before showing anyone.

→ same week

Linear — Cut scope, ship

Ruthless scope-cutting to the smallest version that tests the idea — the goal is shipping this week, not shipping everything.

Amplitude — Watch one metric

One number, watched closely for a week — with no team to build a dashboard, everyone just agrees in advance on what counts as working.