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A LessWrong post argues that products succeed when they make an existing activity less painful, because people are bad at knowing what they want.

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“If you want to build a product that people will use, find something that people already do and make it less painful. People are notoriously bad at knowing what they want.”
LessWrong, 28 Oct 2026, 03:38.

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