Two product ideas need one clear job

Two product ideas need one clear job

Source-backed profiles and agent-managed discovery sound related, but they don’t define the same job for a user. In my ProfileScribe postmortem, that combination is part of why I decided to abandon the automated professional network idea: the scope was broad, and I couldn’t make a compelling case for switching from established tools.

The practical lesson for me is to name the narrow job first. Without that, adding a second promising idea can make a product harder to explain rather than more useful.