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The next product

Jason Fried · Oct 13, 2025

<div class="trix-content"> <div>New products don’t need to be revolutionary, life-changing, or disruptive breakthroughs to succeed.<br><br>Entire categories can roll downhill, gathering complexity as they go. Each product one-upping the next until more becomes too much. The cycle feeds itself, never satiated. Competitors locked in a loop of mutual destruction through perpetual over-improvement.<br><br>When that happens, the door cracks open for something new.<br><br>The newcomer doesn’t have to meet the others where they are. It just has to feel right — like someone opened the curtains and let the sun back in. The type of product that lets people exhale and say, “finally!”<br><br>Not groundbreaking. Just grounded. Standing where everyone else forgot to.<br><br></div><div>-Jason</div> </div>

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