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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping | ![]() 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. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | 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 |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1-4 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationDemandMVP | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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