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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth Flywheel |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | GrowthRetentionConversion | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |