Listen, Prioritize and Scale to Build a Winning Product with HockeyStack’s Arda Bulut

From the idea stage to the product-market fit, building a winning product is no easy feat. That’s why we asked Arda Bulut, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at HockeyStack, to share his tips, tricks and insights.  

Arda explains how responding to customer feedback, prioritizing the right things and keeping customer ease of use front of mind allowed him to build a successful SaaS analytics and attribution platform.  

Plus, he highlights how he dealt with early setbacks and tells us one piece of advice he’d give his former self. 

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Key moments: 

• HockeyStack’s journey to product-market fit 
• How HockeyStack are able to iterate, build and deliver new features fast 
• What Arda learned while building HockeyStack 
• The benefits of listening to customer feedback 
• How to prioritize additions to your platform 
• What encouraged Arda to keep building HockeyStack despite setbacks 
• Why you should invest less in your product 
• One piece of advice Arda would give to his former self 

Key links: 

• Arda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardabulut-627211/  
• HockeyStack: https://hockeystack.com/  
• HatchWorks: https://hatchworks.com/  
• The Built Right podcast: https://hatchworks.com/built-right-a-podcast-about-building-the-right-digital-product/  

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