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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Operations Eat the Frog |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | When many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 15-90 min daily | 1-5 Tage | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1 | Nutzertraffic | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Priority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |