<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></title><description><![CDATA[I write about productivity, product management and story.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!unXJ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8544f392-267b-4bd2-91a6-51b453ef6fcb_1080x1080.png</url><title>Arief Gusti</title><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:41:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.ariefgusti.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[ariefgusti@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[ariefgusti@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[ariefgusti@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[ariefgusti@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Integrate Github Issue with Beads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tried beads but I want to integrate it with github issue. They don't provide it yet, so let's build our own!!!!]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/integrate-github-with-beads</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/integrate-github-with-beads</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:09:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Setelah beberapa waktu, gw akhirnya bisa juga ada waktu untuk explore beads. In simple words, beads ini adalah task management yang bisa kita gunain di dalam repo.</p><p>Nah gw berencana untuk integrasiin pomofly repo dengan beads ini. Mostly utilize github issue dan project dengan beads ini. So, gw coba lihat integrasi apa saja nih yang mereka provide. </p><p>Turns out, mereka sebenarnya sudah ada beberapa integrasi, tapi mostly hanya dengan JIRA dan Linear. Seems a little bit strange since they are focus on git but no integration with github or gitlab issue.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png" width="1428" height="1098" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1098,&quot;width&quot;:1428,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:186351,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ariefgusti.com/i/186264927?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yA6s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F166ac27f-4164-440f-b973-5b93dae2ec31_1428x1098.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Terus gimana dong? As my assistant said above, kita coba manfaatin beads dan github CLI. Let&#8217;s try.</p><p>Let&#8217;s start with simple request and ask for implementation plan.</p><p><code>can we sync the beads with github issue using github cli? please write implementation plan first.</code></p><p>Here is the implementation plan:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jE6T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c8cdd9-85d3-4112-8665-46656bbde995_1770x2352.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jE6T!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c8cdd9-85d3-4112-8665-46656bbde995_1770x2352.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jE6T!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c8cdd9-85d3-4112-8665-46656bbde995_1770x2352.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jE6T!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c8cdd9-85d3-4112-8665-46656bbde995_1770x2352.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jE6T!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c8cdd9-85d3-4112-8665-46656bbde995_1770x2352.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jE6T!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c8cdd9-85d3-4112-8665-46656bbde995_1770x2352.png" width="1456" height="1935" 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Seems good enough. Let&#8217;s start.</p><p>It&#8217;s done.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png" width="1066" height="218" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:218,&quot;width&quot;:1066,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:53769,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ariefgusti.com/i/186264927?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fuum!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d2ea840-160a-4fd5-af5d-b129a9704666_1066x218.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Tapi filename still too long to run. Let&#8217;s short this out.</p><p>Done.!!!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Kbj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142793b3-abf1-49e3-bf1a-824613695932_988x180.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Kbj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142793b3-abf1-49e3-bf1a-824613695932_988x180.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Kbj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142793b3-abf1-49e3-bf1a-824613695932_988x180.png 848w, 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Let&#8217;s try this! </p><p>It works!!!!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png" width="1456" height="739" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aOJn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc675a702-db9a-4078-b40e-1fda1ae0f418_1796x912.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Sekarang kita coba push data ke github issue dari beads.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S1A2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df4320d-945a-42a7-8f18-301267ea6c23_1726x830.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S1A2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5df4320d-945a-42a7-8f18-301267ea6c23_1726x830.png" width="1456" height="700" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Okay. It&#8217;s working!!! Nice!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png" width="1456" height="845" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:845,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:361615,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ariefgusti.com/i/186264927?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVe1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64988db-0c46-4d02-abd1-cde3ea79a54f_2482x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>For the code. You can find it in <a href="https://github.com/Codekarsa/pomofly/tree/main/scripts">https://github.com/Codekarsa/pomofly/tree/main/scripts</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a while.]]></title><description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been a while since the last post.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/its-been-a-while</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/its-been-a-while</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:59:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!unXJ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8544f392-267b-4bd2-91a6-51b453ef6fcb_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So it&#8217;s been a while since the last post. </p><p>2023 - 2025, there are so many things happen during that time.</p><ul><li><p>I have a boy! This is the most precious thing that happen during that time!</p></li><li><p>Ditch corporate life. Literally rejecting the contract extension with a very good salary actually. But, my life plan is going to a different way at that time.</p></li><li><p>Starting codekarsa, working freelance, WLB (Working Literally Burnout!), move to new city&#8230;</p></li><li><p>Move back to be a Developer! yes, after almost 8 years as a PM, now I am back as Developer. Quite happy, but still need to improve my technical skill.</p></li><li><p>Now working remotely with abroad client from Europe mostly, not sure until when but let&#8217;s see..</p></li></ul><p>So, I think that is some life update! Hope I will write as much as before, especially I am now starting to learn AI related things. Like it or not, this is the next big thing and we have to learn and master it.<br><br>So, see you on the next story.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Create Customer-Facing Roadmap]]></title><description><![CDATA[Memulai pembuatan customer-facing roadmap sama pentingnya dengan memetakan rute perjalanan yang belum pernah dilalui sebelumnya.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-create-customer-facing-roadmap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-create-customer-facing-roadmap</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:14:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d76e624b-0120-461a-91ab-811fb8932c56_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ketika saya pertama kali diminta untuk membuat customer-facing roadmap, rasanya seperti diminta untuk memasak rendang tanpa pernah tahu bumbu apa saja yang dibutuhkan. I stared at my laptop screen for what felt like hours, wondering: "How do you even begin to map out something for people you think you understand, but maybe... don't?"</p><p>Ingat waktu dulu main Final Fantasy? Kita selalu excited dengan world map yang slowly terbuka seiring perjalanan kita. Tapi bedanya, di game kita tahu ada treasure chest di ujung sana. Di dunia nyata? Customer needs itu berubah-ubah seperti cuaca di Jakarta&#8212;unpredictable dan sometimes bikin kita basah kuyup.</p><p><strong>The Feedback Jungle</strong></p><p>Langkah pertama yang saya pelajari&#8212;often the hard way&#8212;adalah deep dive ke dalam feedback pelanggan. But here's the thing yang tidak ada yang bilang: it's overwhelming as hell.</p><p>Surveys, interviews, casual conversations, angry tweets, five-star reviews yang bikin kita GR, one-star reviews yang bikin kita pengen nangis. Semua itu menumpuk jadi satu big pile of voices yang kadang saling bertentangan. Ada pelanggan yang bilang "Feature A is amazing!" sementara yang lain komplain "Feature A ruined everything!"</p><p>(Pernah nggak, teman-teman, merasa seperti sedang mendengarkan 100 orang bicara bersamaan di warung kopi yang ramai? Exactly like that.)</p><p>Tapi di situ lah magic-nya. Di dalam chaos itu, ada patterns. Ada recurring themes. Ada pain points yang muncul berulang-ulang sampai kita nggak bisa ignore lagi.</p><p><strong>Priority List: The Art of Saying No (To Almost Everything)</strong></p><p>Setelah berhasil navigate through the feedback jungle, tahap selanjutnya yang equally challenging: menentukan priority list. This is where I learned one of the hardest lessons in product management&#8212;learning to say no.</p><p>Bayangkan kamu di restoran Padang. Ada rendang, gulai, ayam pop, dendeng, sambal hijau, sambal merah. Everything looks amazing. Tapi perut cuma satu, budget terbatas. You have to choose.</p><p>Priority list itu bukan cuma soal what to build&#8212;tapi what NOT to build. Setiap "yes" ke satu feature adalah "no" ke sepuluh features lainnya. Dan kadang, the hardest part adalah explaining kepada stakeholders kenapa feature mereka yang "super important" harus wait.</p><p>(Pro tip yang saya pelajari dari trial and error: Always frame it as "not now" instead of "no." It keeps doors open without making promises you can't keep.)</p><p><strong>From Dreams to Action: The What, When, Who Trinity</strong></p><p>Ini adalah bagian dimana rubber meets the road. Priority list tanpa action plan itu seperti punya wishlist Tokopedia tapi nggak pernah checkout&#8212;nice to look at, but ultimately useless.</p><p>Setiap prioritas needs to be broken down into:</p><ul><li><p><strong>What</strong>: Specifically apa yang mau kita build (bukan sekedar target yang tidak jelas seperti "improve user experience", tapi harus spesifik seperti "reduce checkout time from 5 steps to 3 steps")</p></li><li><p><strong>When</strong>: Timeline yang realistic (keyword: realistic&#8212;bukan timeline yang kita buat karena pressure dari boss hehehe)</p></li><li><p><strong>Who</strong>: Siapa yang accountable (dan ini harus nama orang, bukan team atau department)</p></li></ul><p>Saya ingat waktu pertama kali bikin action plan, I was so optimistic. "Oh, this should take 2 weeks max." Famous last words. Three months later, we were still iterating. Lesson learned: always multiply your initial estimate by 1.5, minimum.</p><p><strong>Keeping It Dynamic: Embracing the Art of Pivoting</strong></p><p>Here's something nobody tells you about roadmaps&#8212;they're meant to be changed. Yang namanya market dan customer needs itu berubah sangat cepat.</p><p>I used to think changing the roadmap meant I failed at planning. Ternyata, the real failure adalah sticking to a plan yang sudah outdated. It's like using Google Maps from 2010 to navigate Jakarta today&#8212;you'll end up in construction sites and dead ends.</p><p>The key adalah building flexibility into your roadmap from day one. Think of it as designing a modular wardrobe&#8212;you can mix and match pieces as trends change, tapi the foundation remains solid.</p><p>(And please, jangan jadikan setiap small feedback sebagai alasan untuk major pivot. There's a difference between being responsive dan being reactive.)</p><p><strong>The Communication Game: Building Bridges, Not Walls</strong></p><p>Last but definitely not least&#8212;komunikasi dengan customers tentang roadmap. This is where things get tricky, because you're walking a tightrope between transparency dan overpromising.</p><p>I learned this the hard way when we announced a feature six months in advance. Market conditions changed, priorities shifted, dan we had to postpone. The backlash was... educational, to put it mildly.</p><p>Now, I communicate roadmaps dengan approach yang berbeda:</p><ul><li><p>Share the why behind decisions, not just the what</p></li><li><p>Be honest about uncertainties and dependencies</p></li><li><p>Celebrate small wins along the way</p></li><li><p>Always, always acknowledge when things don't go as planned</p></li></ul><p>Think of it as maintaining a relationship. You want to be open and honest, tapi you also don't want to promise things you can't deliver. It's about building trust, one conversation at a time.</p><p><strong>The Journey Continues</strong></p><p>Membuat customer-facing roadmap yang benar-benar works isn't a destination&#8212;it's an ongoing journey. Setiap feedback yang masuk, every market shift, each team discussion adds another layer to your understanding.</p><p>Sometimes saya masih merasa overwhelmed. Sometimes I still wonder if we're building the right things for the right people. Tapi that's okay. The uncertainty adalah bagian dari prosesnya.</p><p>Yang terpenting, remember this: behind every data point and priority list, ada real people dengan real problems yang they hope kita bisa solve. When you keep that at the center of everything, the roadmap stops being just a document&#8212;it becomes a promise. A promise to listen, to adapt, dan to keep building something yang truly matters.</p><p>"The best roadmaps aren't perfect&#8212;they're responsive. And the best products aren't built in isolation&#8212;they're built in conversation."</p><p>How's your roadmap conversation going, teman-teman?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Customer Journey Maps Come Alive: Stories from the Trenches]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mari kita menyelam lebih dalam ke dalam contoh-contoh Customer Journey Map untuk memahami bagaimana cara menerapkan dalam berbagai skenario bisnis dan membantu menangkap insight tentang customer experience.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/some-examples-of-customer-journey</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/some-examples-of-customer-journey</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/236000a4-2e25-4f37-9781-08c67177210d_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember sitting in a coffee shop di Kemang, observing orang-orang around me. Ada yang scroll Tokopedia sambil minum kopi, ada yang video call dengan customer service sambil frustrated banget, ada yang excited banget nunjukin foto liburan di Instagram. Dan saat itu I realized: setiap orang punya cerita perjalanan mereka sendiri dengan brands yang mereka encounter setiap hari.</p><p>Let me share beberapa stories yang I've witnessed&#8212;dan sometimes lived through myself.</p><p><strong>The Great E-commerce Adventure (Or: How I Almost Bought the Wrong Size)</strong></p><p>Picture this: jam 2 pagi, saya lagi scroll-scroll nggak jelas, and then I saw it&#8212;sepatu sneakers yang I've been wanting for months, finally on sale. The classic e-commerce journey dimulai.</p><p>Fase pertama: <strong>Discovery</strong>. Adrenaline rush! "OMG, finally!" But then reality kicks in. Research mode activated. Buka tab baru, Google "review sepatu X," baca testimonials di Shopee, Instagram stalking orang-orang yang pernah posting wearing them.</p><p><strong>Touchpoints</strong> scattered everywhere: Instagram ads yang somehow tau persis what I want (creepy much?), YouTube review videos, WhatsApp grup yang I spam dengan "Guys, worth it nggak sih ini?"</p><p><strong>Emotions</strong>? Roller coaster total. Excited &#8594; doubtful &#8594; FOMO &#8594; anxious about size &#8594; "ah whatever, YOLO" &#8594; post-purchase anxiety ("did I just spend money I don't have?").</p><p><strong>Actions</strong> taken: screenshot everything, save to wishlist, abandon cart twice, comeback at 3 AM, finally checkout dengan tangan bergetar.</p><p>Yang I learned from mapping this? That 2 AM emotional purchase isn't just about the product&#8212;it's about that feeling of "I deserve this" after a long day. E-commerce brands yang understand this create experiences that feel like a warm hug, not just a transaction.</p><p><strong>Customer Service Chronicles: From Hell to Heaven (Sometimes)</strong></p><p>Let me tell you about the time my internet died right before an important client presentation. Panic level: maximum.</p><p>Journey dimulai dengan denial. "Mungkin cuma sementara." Five minutes later: frantically Googling "cara fix internet." Ten minutes later: calling customer service dengan suara yang probably sounded desperate banget.</p><p><strong>Tahapan</strong>: Self-help attempts &#8594; Customer service call &#8594; Being transferred 3 times &#8594; Finally getting someone who actually understands technology &#8594; Problem solved (hopefully).</p><p><strong>Emotions</strong>? Started with mild annoyance, escalated to pure rage when the first customer service rep told me to "restart the router" for the fifth time, then relief bordering on tears when the technical team fixed it in 10 minutes.</p><p><strong>Actions</strong>: Googling troubleshooting steps, calling multiple times, taking photos of error messages, pacing around the room while on hold.</p><p>The brands that get this right? They understand that by the time someone calls customer service, they're already frustrated. The goal isn't just to fix the problem&#8212;it's to restore trust and turn a bad experience into a story they'll tell their friends about amazing service.</p><p><strong>The Fintech Rabbit Hole (Or: Why Opening a Bank Account Shouldn't Feel Like Surgery)</strong></p><p>Recently saya decided to open a digital bank account. Simple task, right? Hah.</p><p>Perjalanan started innocently enough. Saw an ad promising "Buka rekening 5 menit!" Challenge accepted.</p><p><strong>Emotions</strong>: Curious &#8594; optimistic &#8594; confused by 47 different verification steps &#8594; suspicious ("why do they need a photo of my cat?") &#8594; resigned acceptance &#8594; genuine surprise when it actually worked.</p><p><strong>Actions</strong>: Downloaded 3 different banking apps to compare, read terms and conditions yang longer than most novels, took selfies in 17 different angles, uploaded documents that apparently weren't clear enough the first 3 times.</p><p>The breakthrough moment? When one app had a chat feature yang actually felt conversational, bukan scripted responses. The customer service person used proper slang, cracked a small joke, and explained why they needed so many documents without sounding condescending.</p><p>Yang made the difference: treating me like a human being, not a risk assessment number.</p><p><strong>Holiday Planning: The Pinterest-to-Reality Pipeline</strong></p><p>Ah, travel planning. Where dreams meet budget reality dan logistics nightmares.</p><p>Journey always starts the same way: Instagram atau Pinterest inspiration. "Bali sunset looks amazing!" Three hours later, I'm deep in travel blogs, comparing flight prices, reading hotel reviews yang somehow always contradict each other.</p><p><strong>Emotions</strong>: Wonder and wanderlust &#8594; excitement &#8594; overwhelm from too many choices &#8594; budget anxiety &#8594; booking stress &#8594; pre-trip excitement &#8594; post-booking relief.</p><p><strong>Actions</strong>: Screenshot everything beautiful, create detailed spreadsheets, join Facebook groups for travel tips, bookmark 47 different restaurants, change itinerary 12 times.</p><p>The brands that nail this journey? They don't just sell destinations&#8212;they sell feelings. They understand that travel planning is emotional labor, dan they make it feel like part of the adventure, not a chore.</p><p><strong>The Real Magic Behind These Stories</strong></p><p>Here's what I've learned dari observing (dan living through) these journeys: every touchpoint adalah an opportunity untuk either strengthen atau weaken the relationship with your customers.</p><p>Yang sering terlupakan adalah that behind every click, every call, every frustrated Google search, ada real person dengan real emotions dan real problems they're trying to solve. When you map their journey, you're not just plotting actions on a flowchart&#8212;you're understanding human behavior dalam all its messy, complicated, beautiful reality.</p><p>The best customer journey maps don't just show what people do&#8212;they show what people feel, dan more importantly, what they need to feel supported, understood, dan valued.</p><p>Customer journey mapping isn't about perfect linear paths. It's about understanding that people are beautifully unpredictable, dan creating experiences yang can adapt to their humanness.</p><p>Every customer has a story. What story is your business helping them write?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Product Discovery: Confessions of a Reformed Feature Addict]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ketika saya pertama kali diminta untuk lead product development, confidence level saya was through the roof.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-product-discovery</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-product-discovery</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:37:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c8af40f3-06ab-4ce9-81a3-6172501ca942_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ketika saya pertama kali diminta untuk lead product development, confidence level saya was through the roof. "How hard could it be?" I thought. "People want X, we build X, profit!"</p><p>Three months later, I was staring at a half-finished product yang absolutely no one wanted. Zero traction. Zero users. Zero pride left in my soul.</p><p>Sitting di warung kopi yang sama where I used to confidently explain my "brilliant" product vision to anyone who'd listen, I finally admitted the truth: I had been building solutions untuk problems yang hanya exist di kepala saya sendiri.</p><p>That's when I discovered Product Discovery&#8212;or rather, ketika Product Discovery smacked me in the face dengan reality check yang I desperately needed.</p><p><strong>The Moment Everything Clicked (And My Ego Deflated)</strong></p><p>You know that scene in every movie where the protagonist has their "aha!" moment? Mine happened during a casual chat dengan seorang potential user. I was explaining my product dengan passion yang bikin saya ngos-ngosan, dan dia cuma bilang: "Oh, that's cool... but I actually solve that problem dengan sticky notes."</p><p>Sticky notes. Fucking sticky notes.</p><p>Semua months of coding, designing, sleepless nights&#8212;defeated by office supplies yang cost 5000 rupiah.</p><p>That's when I realized: Product Discovery isn't just a fancy term untuk market research. It's a survival skill. It's the difference between building something people want versus building something yang will haunt your LinkedIn profile forever.</p><p><strong>What Product Discovery Actually Means</strong></p><p>Forget the textbook definitions for a second. Product Discovery adalah about becoming a detective untuk problems you didn't even know existed.</p><p>Bayangkan you're Sherlock Holmes, tapi instead of solving crimes, you're solving the mystery of "What do people actually need, and why don't they know they need it yet?"</p><p>It's about getting comfortable with being wrong. Really wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. And then using that wrongness as data points untuk getting closer to right.</p><p><strong>My Product Discovery Framework (Born from Multiple Failures)</strong></p><p>Let me share the process yang saved my career dan probably my sanity:</p><p><strong>1. Market Research: The Humbling Phase</strong></p><p>This isn't about Googling "market trends 2024" dan calling it a day. This is about immersing yourself dalam the ecosystem where your potential product would live.</p><p>I spent weeks di coworking spaces, cafes, even Gojek rides, just listening. Not pitching. Not explaining. Just absorbing the complaints, the workarounds, the "I wish there was..." statements yang people casually drop dalam conversations.</p><p>Pro tip: The best insights come from complaints yang people don't even realize they're making. Like "Oh, I always forget to..." atau "It's so annoying how..."</p><p><strong>2. Problem Identification: Playing Detective</strong></p><p>Here's what nobody tells you: most people can't articulate their problems clearly. They'll tell you symptoms, not root causes.</p><p>Someone might say "I need a better calendar app," when what they actually need adalah better boundaries dengan their time. The real problem isn't technical&#8212;it's behavioral.</p><p>I learned to ask "why" five times untuk every problem statement. It's uncomfortable. People get annoyed. But that's where the gold is buried.</p><p><strong>3. Idea Development: The Creative Chaos</strong></p><p>Once you understand the real problem, this is where things get fun. But here's the twist&#8212;the best ideas often come from constraints, not complete freedom.</p><p>I remember one brainstorming session where we limited ourselves to solutions yang could work with technology dari 10 years ago. The constraint forced us to focus on the core value proposition instead of getting distracted by shiny tech.</p><p><strong>4. Prototyping: Making It Real (Sort Of)</strong></p><p>Forget the perfect MVP. Start dengan paper prototypes. Literally, kertas dan pensil.</p><p>My most successful product started as a WhatsApp bot yang I manually operated behind the scenes. Users thought they were talking to sophisticated AI, but it was just me, at 2 AM, copy-pasting responses dan pretending to be a robot.</p><p>(Don't judge. It worked.)</p><p><strong>5. MVP Testing: The Moment of Truth</strong></p><p>This is where your ego gets tested. You put your baby product into the world dan wait for people to either love it or crush your dreams.</p><p>The key is defining what "success" looks like before you launch. Is it user engagement? Revenue? Just proving the problem exists? Because if you don't define success upfront, you'll rationalize any result as a "learning opportunity."</p><p><strong>6. Evaluation: The Brutal Honesty Hour</strong></p><p>This is the hardest part. Looking at your data dan admitting when something isn't working.</p><p>I've killed more product ideas than I've shipped. And that's not failure&#8212;that's Product Discovery working as intended. Better to kill a bad idea early than to waste months building something yang will die slowly in the market.</p><p><strong>The Real Secret Nobody Talks About</strong></p><p>Product Discovery isn't really about finding the perfect product. It's about becoming the type of person who can find the perfect product for any situation.</p><p>It's about developing intuition untuk human behavior. It's about getting comfortable dengan uncertainty. It's about building empathy muscles yang you didn't even know you had.</p><p>Most importantly, it's about accepting that the market is smarter than you are. Your job isn't to convince people they need your solution. Your job is to find problems yang are so painful, people will pay you to make them go away.</p><p><strong>The Journey Never Really Ends</strong></p><p>Even after you've found product-market fit, Product Discovery continues. Markets evolve. Problems change. What worked yesterday might be irrelevant tomorrow.</p><p>The companies I admire most&#8212;Gojek, Traveloka, Tokopedia&#8212;they never stopped discovering. They're constantly exploring, testing, failing, learning. That's why they stay relevant while others become footnotes dalam startup graveyard.</p><p>So if you're standing at the beginning of your product journey, feeling lost dalam the forest of possibilities, remember this: everyone who's built something meaningful has felt exactly where you are right now.</p><p>The difference between successful product builders dan the rest of us? They learned to enjoy being lost. Because that's where discovery happens.</p><p>Product Discovery isn't just a process&#8212;it's a mindset. Dan once you embrace it, you'll never build something yang nobody wants ever again.</p><p>"The best products aren't born from brilliant ideas&#8212;they're born from deep understanding of real problems."</p><p>Ready to get lost dalam the beautiful mess of discovery?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crab Basket Chronicles: Why I Used to Be That Person]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ketika teman saya dapat promosi tahun lalu, reaksi pertama saya bukanlah "Congratulations!" Nggak.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/crab-mentality</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/crab-mentality</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:54:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2f6e32b6-320b-426d-b97c-6521a06b869b_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ketika teman saya dapat promosi tahun lalu, reaksi pertama saya bukanlah "Congratulations!" Nggak. Yang pertama kali muncul di pikiran saya was: "Seriously? Him? Padahal gue yang lebih qualified..."</p><p>I paused mid-thought, horrified at myself. When did I become <em>that</em> person?</p><p>Malamnya, saya teringat video yang pernah saya tonton tentang crabs in a bucket. You know the story, right? Ketika satu kepiting tries to escape, yang lainnya will literally drag it back down. No crab escapes because they're all too busy pulling each other down instead of helping each other climb out.</p><p>Sitting there dengan guilt yang uncomfortable banget, I realized: I had become the crab.</p><p><strong>The Mirror Moment That Changed Everything</strong></p><p>Growing up, I always thought of myself as supportive friend. The cheerleader. The one who celebrates other people's wins. But when I really examined my reactions to other people's success&#8212;especially yang close to my age, my industry, my social circle&#8212;the truth was uncomfortable.</p><p>There was always this tiny voice. "Lucky them." "They probably had connections." "Wait till reality hits them." "I could've done that better if I had their opportunities."</p><p>Sound familiar? Because here's what I've learned: almost everyone has this voice. Some people just get better at recognizing it and choosing not to listen.</p><p><strong>Why We Become Crabs (And It's Not Because We're Evil)</strong></p><p>Crab mentality isn't about being a bad person. It's about feeling scared, insecure, dan overwhelmed by this narrative that success is scarce&#8212;like there's only limited seats di first class of life's airplane.</p><p>I grew up dengan mindset yang zero-sum: if someone else wins, that means less winning left for me. Scholarships, job opportunities, recognition&#8212;semuanya felt like pie yang gets smaller every time someone else takes a slice.</p><p>Social media made it worse. Instagram success highlights, LinkedIn humble brags, WhatsApp groups where everyone shares their achievements. Suddenly everyone's life looked better than mine, dan instead of being inspired, I became defensive.</p><p>The breaking point came during a startup event. Saya listened to this 25-year-old founder talking about their Series A funding, dan instead of learning from their journey, I spent the entire time mentally listing reasons why they didn't deserve it.</p><p>Driving home that night, I realized: I was spending more energy tearing down other people's success than building my own.</p><p><strong>The Uncomfortable Truth About My Crab Days</strong></p><p>Here's what crab mentality actually cost me, dan I'm sharing this because maybe it costs you too:</p><p><strong>Energy drain</strong>. Instead of focusing on my own growth, I was obsessed dengan other people's wins and losses. Do you know how exhausting it is to maintain scorecards for everyone else's life?</p><p><strong>Relationship damage</strong>. People can sense when you're not genuinely happy for them. Yang tadinya close friends slowly became distant because my congratulations felt forced, my support felt fake.</p><p><strong>Missed opportunities</strong>. Some of my best career breaks came through people I initially felt competitive with. When you're busy pulling people down, you miss the chance untuk climb up together.</p><p><strong>Self-sabotage</strong>. The energy I spent analyzing why others succeeded could've been used untuk actually working on my own success. Ironic, right?</p><p><strong>Breaking Free: My Anti-Crab Rehabilitation Program</strong></p><p>The first step was admitting I had a problem. Dan honestly, it felt like therapy. "Hi, my name is [Name], and I sometimes feel threatened by other people's success."</p><p>Then I started what I call my "Daily Celebration Practice." Every day, I forced myself to genuinely celebrate someone else's win. Not just liking their post, but actually reaching out dengan personal message.</p><p>At first, it felt fake as hell. "Congratulations on your promotion!" <em>internal eye roll</em></p><p>But here's the weird thing&#8212;after a few weeks, something shifted. Celebrating others started feeling... good? Like, genuinely good. Their success stopped feeling like my failure.</p><p><strong>The Plot Twist: Success Isn't Actually Limited</strong></p><p>Remember that pie analogy I mentioned? Total bullshit.</p><p>Success isn't pie. It's more like a YouTube algorithm&#8212;the more good content exists, the more people consume content in general. One person's success often creates opportunities untuk others.</p><p>That friend who got promoted? Six months later, he referred me untuk a better position at his new company. The startup founder I was secretly judging? We ended up collaborating on a project yang opened doors I never knew existed.</p><p>When people succeed, they create ripple effects. They build networks, generate opportunities, prove that certain paths are possible. But you only benefit from those ripples if you're swimming with them, not fighting against them.</p><p><strong>The Ladder Builder's Playbook</strong></p><p>Now, instead of being the crab yang pulls people down, I try to be what I call a "ladder builder." Here's how:</p><p><strong>Genuine curiosity over comparison</strong>. When someone shares good news, instead of thinking "Why not me?", I ask "How did you do it?" The shift from comparison to learning changes everything.</p><p><strong>Amplify others' wins</strong>. Share their achievements, introduce them to your network, make their success visible. What goes around, comes around&#8212;but even if it doesn't, it feels better than the alternative.</p><p><strong>Reframe the narrative</strong>. Their success proves possibility. If they can do it, maybe I can too&#8212;with their wisdom and experience as guidance.</p><p><strong>Focus on your own journey</strong>. This sounds clich&#233;, but it's true: you can't drive your car while constantly checking other people's speedometers. Eyes on your own road.</p><p><strong>The Beautiful Irony</strong></p><p>Here's the kicker&#8212;the moment I stopped competing dengan everyone around me, I started actually winning. Not because I stopped caring about success, but because I started focusing my energy on building instead of blocking.</p><p>My relationships improved. My work got better. Opportunities appeared. It's almost like the universe rewards people who root for others instead of rooting against them.</p><p><strong>The Daily Choice</strong></p><p>Every day, we choose between being crabs atau ladder builders. Ketika you see someone's promotion announcement, startup funding news, atau achievement post&#8212;that split second before you react is your choice point.</p><p>You can think: "Must be nice..." or "How can I learn from this?"</p><p>You can feel: resentment or inspiration.</p><p>You can choose: to pull down or lift up.</p><p>The beautiful thing is, once you start building ladders untuk other people, you'll find that somehow, you've built one for yourself too.</p><p>Success, it turns out, isn't about escaping the bucket alone. It's about turning the whole bucket into a launching pad.</p><p>"The best way to ensure your own success is to make sure the people around you succeed too."</p><p>What kind of person do you want to be in someone else's success story?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Define Target Market?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ketika saya launching produk pertama saya, I made the classic rookie mistake: I thought everyone would love it.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-define-target-market</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-define-target-market</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:49:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/59ff52ae-27a4-4646-88ca-31cd54e56c07_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ketika saya launching produk pertama saya, I made the classic rookie mistake: I thought everyone would love it. "This is so useful," I told myself. "Obviously everyone akan mau ini!"</p><p>Spoiler alert: not everyone wanted it. In fact, hampir nobody wanted it.</p><p>I spent months wondering what went wrong, until my mentor asked me a simple question: "Who exactly did you build this for?" And my confident answer? "Well... everyone who needs this kind of solution."</p><p>He looked at me with that patient smile yang you give to someone who just said something beautifully naive. "So... everyone and no one at the same time?"</p><p>That's when I learned about target markets the hard way&#8212;by completely ignoring them.</p><p><strong>The "Everyone" Trap (And How It Almost Killed My Dreams)</strong></p><p>Picture this: you're standing di food court mall, shouting "MAKANAN ENAK!" to everyone passing by. The office workers want quick lunch, teenagers want Instagram-worthy food, families want kid-friendly options, tapi your generic "delicious food" message speaks to none of them specifically. That's what marketing to "everyone" feels like.</p><p>My first product was a productivity app. Revolutionary! (Atau at least, that's what I thought.) When people asked who it was for, I'd say: "Anyone who wants to be more productive!"</p><p>College students? Yes! Busy executives? Absolutely! Stay-at-home parents? Of course! Retired people who want to organize their hobbies? Why not!</p><p>The result? A product yang spoke to no one because it tried to speak to everyone. Like creating a playlist yang includes K-pop, death metal, classical music, dan dangdut koplo&#8212;technically diverse, but impossible to enjoy.</p><p><strong>What Target Market Actually Means (Beyond the Textbook BS)</strong></p><p>Forget the formal definition for a second. Target market adalah about finding your people. Your tribe. The humans who will look at your product dan think: "Finally, someone gets me."</p><p>It's not about excluding people&#8212;it's about understanding who you can serve best dengan what you have right now. Think of it as choosing to be an amazing neighborhood warung instead of a mediocre five-star restaurant.</p><p>I learned this dari watching my favorite local coffee shop. They could try to appeal to everyone&#8212;add fancy latte art untuk Instagram crowd, cheap kopi tubruk untuk budget customers, coworking space untuk digital nomads. Instead, they chose their lane: quality single-origin coffee untuk serious coffee enthusiasts. Result? A loyal community yang drives 30 minutes just for their coffee.</p><p><strong>My Target Market Awakening (Featuring Multiple Failures)</strong></p><p>After my "everyone" disaster, I became obsessed dengan getting this right. I read every article, attended workshops, made customer personas yang looked like dating profiles.</p><p>"Meet Sarah, 28, marketing professional, loves yoga and avocado toast, earns 15-20 million per month, shops online 3x per week..."</p><p>But here's what nobody told me: personas are just the starting point. The real insight comes from talking to actual humans, not imaginary perfect customers.</p><p><strong>The Coffee Shop Epiphany</strong></p><p>I spent a month interviewing potential users di various coffee shops around Jakarta. Not formal interviews&#8212;just casual conversations with strangers yang agreed to chat over coffee.</p><p>Yang I discovered blew my mind: the real target market for my productivity app wasn't "busy professionals." It was specifically "people who feel overwhelmed by their own ambitions."</p><p>That's way more specific than demographics. It's psychographic. It's emotional. It's the difference between marketing to "women aged 25-35" versus marketing to "women who feel like they're constantly behind on their own life goals."</p><p><strong>The Three-Layer Target Market Discovery Process</strong></p><p>Based on trial and error (mostly error), here's how I now approach target market definition:</p><p><strong>Layer 1: The Demographics Deep Dive</strong></p><p>Start dengan the basics&#8212;age, location, income, occupation. But don't stop there. These are just the surface symptoms of deeper patterns.</p><p>I use social media stalking as research. (Legal kind, obviously.) Look at who engages dengan similar products, read their comments, notice their language patterns. LinkedIn untuk professional insights, Instagram untuk lifestyle clues, Twitter untuk unfiltered opinions.</p><p><strong>Layer 2: The Behavior Investigation</strong></p><p>This is where it gets interesting. What do these people actually do? How do they spend their time? What problems keep them awake at 2 AM scrolling their phones?</p><p>I started following my potential users through their daily routines (virtually, not creepily). What apps do they use? What content do they consume? Dimana they go for advice when they're stuck?</p><p>The breakthrough insight: my target market wasn't busy people&#8212;it was people who felt busy even when they weren't actually that busy. Completely different problem requiring completely different solution.</p><p><strong>Layer 3: The Emotional Archaeology</strong></p><p>This is the secret sauce yang most people skip. What emotions drive your target market's decisions? What fears keep them up at night? What dreams motivate them to take action?</p><p>For my productivity app, the real insight was that my users weren't looking for efficiency&#8212;they were looking for peace of mind. They wanted to feel like they had their shit together, even if their actual productivity didn't change much.</p><p>Understanding this emotional layer changed everything about my messaging, features, even the app's visual design.</p><p><strong>The Beautiful Mistake That Led to My Breakthrough</strong></p><p>Six months into my revised approach, I accidentally posted in the wrong Facebook group. Instead of the "Productivity Enthusiasts" group, I posted di "Anxious Achievers Support Group."</p><p>The response was overwhelming. Comments like "OMG finally someone understands!" dan "This is exactly what I needed but didn't know how to ask for!"</p><p>That's when I realized: sometimes your real target market finds you, bukan the other way around. The key is being specific enough dalam your messaging that the right people recognize themselves immediately.</p><p><strong>Why Getting This Right Changes Everything</strong></p><p>When you truly understand your target market, magical things happen:</p><p><strong>Your messaging becomes effortless</strong>. You stop guessing what to say because you know exactly who you're talking to and what matters to them.</p><p><strong>Product development gets focused</strong>. Every feature decision becomes clear because you can ask: "Would this solve a real problem for my people?"</p><p><strong>Marketing becomes affordable</strong>. Instead of expensive broad campaigns, you can find your people di specific communities where they already hang out.</p><p><strong>Customer loyalty skyrockets</strong>. When people feel truly understood, they don't just buy your product&#8212;they become evangelists untuk your brand.</p><p><strong>The Ongoing Love Story</strong></p><p>Here's what I wish someone had told me earlier: defining your target market isn't a one-time exercise. It's an ongoing relationship.</p><p>Markets evolve. People change. Your understanding deepens. What started as a hypothesis becomes nuanced knowledge through countless conversations, observations, dan yes, mistakes.</p><p>Sometimes saya still catch myself falling into the "everyone" trap, especially when I'm feeling ambitious atau pressure dari investors. But then I remember that coffee shop&#8212;how choosing their lane made them irreplaceable untuk their community.</p><p>Your target market isn't just a business strategy. It's about finding your people in this chaotic world dan serving them so well that they can't imagine life without what you offer.</p><p>"The riches are in the niches, but the magic is in the connection."</p><p>Who are your people, and how are you showing up for them today?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Create Customer Journey Map]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ketika saya pertama kali diminta untuk membuat Customer Journey Map, reaction saya adalah: "Easy!]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-create-customer-journey-map</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-create-customer-journey-map</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:53:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf90a125-0293-4f32-b2e2-f54eb61d3e06_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ketika saya pertama kali diminta untuk membuat Customer Journey Map, reaction saya adalah: "Easy! I'll just draw some boxes dengan arrows, add some emojis, dan voila&#8212;professional-looking deliverable!"</p><p>Three weeks later, I had created the most beautiful, color-coded, Pinterest-worthy customer journey map yang absolutely no one could use for anything meaningful. It looked amazing di presentation, tapi when stakeholders asked "So what should we actually do with this?", I had no answer.</p><p>Turns out, creating customer journey maps isn't about making pretty infographics. It's about uncovering truth yang sometimes uncomfortable, and then having the courage to act on what you discover.</p><p><strong>My First Journey Map Disaster (A Cautionary Tale)</strong></p><p>Picture this: me, armed dengan Figma dan unlimited enthusiasm, creating a customer journey map berdasarkan what I <em>thought</em> customers experienced. I had never actually talked to a real customer. I just made logical assumptions based on our product flow.</p><p>"First they discover us through ads," I mapped out confidently. "Then they visit our website, compare features, sign up for trial, love the product, convert to paid, and become happy loyal customers!"</p><p>Perfect linear journey. Beautifully documented. Completely fictional.</p><p>The reality? Our actual customers were finding us through weird routes I never considered, getting stuck on pages I thought were intuitive, dan abandoning the product for reasons yang had nothing to do with features.</p><p>My beautiful map was like a guidebook untuk a city I'd never visited, written by someone who'd only seen tourist brochures.</p><p><strong>What Customer Journey Mapping Actually Means</strong></p><p>After that humbling experience, I learned that customer journey mapping isn't about documenting what you want to happen&#8212;it's about discovering what actually happens, why it happens, dan most importantly, what you can do about it.</p><p>It's detective work. You're investigating how real humans dengan real problems navigate your product, dan where they get frustrated, confused, atau delighted along the way.</p><p>The goal isn't to create wall art. The goal is to find specific moments where you can make customers' lives better dan your business more successful.</p><p><strong>My 7-Step Framework (Born from Multiple Failures)</strong></p><p>After several iterations of getting this wrong, here's the process yang actually works:</p><p><strong>Step 1: Get Crystal Clear on Your "Why"</strong></p><p>Before you open Miro atau start interviewing customers, answer these questions honestly:</p><ul><li><p>What specific decision are you trying to make?</p></li><li><p>What assumptions do you want to validate or challenge?</p></li><li><p>Whose experience are you trying to improve?</p></li></ul><p>I learned this the hard way when I spent weeks mapping our "ideal customer journey" only to realize the stakeholders actually wanted to understand why our trial-to-paid conversion was so low. Different objective, completely different map needed.</p><p>Be specific. "Understand customer experience" is too vague. "Identify why 60% of users abandon checkout on mobile" adalah actionable.</p><p><strong>Step 2: Choose Your Hero (And Only One Hero)</strong></p><p>Here's where most people mess up: they try to map everyone's journey at once. "Let's include enterprise customers AND small businesses AND freemium users!"</p><p>Don't. Pick one persona. One specific type of customer with one specific goal.</p><p>Why? Because a busy startup founder signing up untuk your productivity app has a completely different journey than a corporate team administrator evaluating software untuk 50 employees. Mixing them together creates generic maps yang help no one.</p><p>Start dengan your most common customer type. You can always create additional maps later untuk different personas.</p><p><strong>Step 3: Define the Journey Boundaries</strong></p><p>This sounds boring but it's crucial: decide where your journey starts dan where it ends.</p><p>Does it start when someone first hears about your product? Or when they actively start looking untuk a solution? Does it end after purchase, after successful onboarding, atau after they become a referring customer?</p><p>I typically use five stages yang cover most scenarios:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Awareness</strong>: "I have a problem and I'm looking for solutions"</p></li><li><p><strong>Consideration</strong>: "I'm comparing different options"</p></li><li><p><strong>Decision</strong>: "I'm ready to choose and purchase"</p></li><li><p><strong>Onboarding</strong>: "I'm learning to use this thing I just bought"</p></li><li><p><strong>Advocacy</strong>: "I love this enough to tell other people about it"</p></li></ul><p>But adjust these berdasarkan your actual business model dan customer behavior.</p><p><strong>Step 4: Gather Real Data (Not Assumptions)</strong></p><p>This is where the magic happens. You need to talk to actual customers, not just guess what they do.</p><p>I use a combination of:</p><p><strong>Customer interviews</strong>: "Walk me through how you first discovered our product..." Let them tell the story dalam their own words.</p><p><strong>Analytics data</strong>: Where do people actually come from? Where do they drop off? What pages do they spend time on?</p><p><strong>Support ticket analysis</strong>: What problems come up repeatedly? At what stages?</p><p><strong>Session recordings</strong>: Watch real people navigate your product. It's humbling dan eye-opening.</p><p>The goal is to collect stories, not just statistics. "Users spend 2.3 minutes on pricing page" is data. "Users spend 2.3 minutes on pricing page trying to figure out which plan includes the feature they need" is insight.</p><p><strong>Step 5: Map the Messy Reality</strong></p><p>Now you create the actual map. For each stage, document:</p><p><strong>Actions</strong>: What do they actually do? (Not what you want them to do) <strong>Emotions</strong>: How do they feel? Confused? Excited? Overwhelmed? <strong>Pain points</strong>: Where do they get stuck, frustrated, atau lost? <strong>Needs</strong>: What do they need at this moment to move forward?</p><p>Pro tip: Use direct quotes dari customer interviews. "The pricing was confusing AF" hits differently than "Users experienced confusion regarding pricing structure."</p><p>Don't sanitize the feedback. If customers are frustrated, show that frustration. The goal is truth, not marketing copy.</p><p><strong>Step 6: Find the Gold (Analysis Phase)</strong></p><p>With your map complete, now you hunt untuk insights:</p><p><strong>Emotional valleys</strong>: Where are customers most frustrated? These are usually quick wins untuk improvement.</p><p><strong>Unmet needs</strong>: What do customers need yang you're not providing? These might be product opportunities.</p><p><strong>Moments of delight</strong>: Where are customers happiest? How can you amplify these moments?</p><p><strong>Drop-off points</strong>: Where do people abandon the journey? What's causing this?</p><p>I look untuk patterns across multiple customer stories. If three different people mention confusion about the same thing, that's a pattern worth addressing.</p><p><strong>Step 7: Turn Insights into Action</strong></p><p>The prettiest journey map in the world is useless if it just sits dalam Google Drive. Create specific, actionable next steps:</p><p><strong>Quick fixes</strong>: What can you improve within 2 weeks? (Usually copy changes, removing friction points)</p><p><strong>Medium-term improvements</strong>: What requires development work but could be done dalam a quarter?</p><p><strong>Long-term strategic changes</strong>: What insights should influence your product roadmap atau business strategy?</p><p>Assign owners dan deadlines. Track progress. Update the journey map as you make changes.</p><p><strong>The Plot Twist That Changed Everything</strong></p><p>Six months after creating my first "real" customer journey map, something unexpected happened. A customer emailed us saying: "I love your product, but I almost didn't sign up because your homepage made me think it was only untuk large companies."</p><p>That email led to a homepage redesign that increased trial signups by 40%. But here's the kicker&#8212;that insight was already dalam our journey map. We had documented that small business owners felt intimidated by our messaging, but we hadn't acted on it quickly enough.</p><p>The journey map didn't just help us fix problems&#8212;it helped us prioritize which problems to fix first.</p><p><strong>Why Most Journey Maps Fail (And How to Avoid It)</strong></p><p>The biggest mistake I see teams make is treating journey mapping as a one-time project instead of an ongoing practice.</p><p>Customer behavior changes. Your product evolves. Market conditions shift. A journey map dari six months ago might already be outdated.</p><p>Schedule regular "journey map reviews" dengan your team. Update them berdasarkan new customer feedback, product changes, dan market insights.</p><p>Also, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Better to have a simple, actionable journey map than a comprehensive, unused one.</p><p><strong>The Real Value You're Creating</strong></p><p>When done right, customer journey mapping does more than improve your product&#8212;it creates empathy across your entire organization.</p><p>Your engineers start understanding why certain features matter to customers. Your marketers see where their messaging creates confusion. Your customer support team identifies which onboarding gaps cause the most problems.</p><p>It aligns everyone around the customer experience, not just their individual departmental goals.</p><p>Customer journey mapping isn't about creating perfect documentation of how customers interact dengan your product. It's about building systematic empathy untuk their experience dan using that empathy to make better business decisions.</p><p>"The goal of mapping customer journeys isn't to predict the future&#8212;it's to understand the present well enough to improve it."</p><p>What story is your customer journey telling you?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Customer Journey Map?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waktu pertama kali gue denger istilah "Customer Journey Map" di meeting, gue manggut-manggut aja kayak udah ngerti banget.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-customer-journey-map</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-customer-journey-map</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:50:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/58234cb1-7be8-496a-b8fd-2f7f914cfe1d_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Waktu pertama kali gue denger istilah "Customer Journey Map" di meeting, gue manggut-manggut aja kayak udah ngerti banget. "Ya iya dong, customer journey mapping," kata gue pede. "Penting banget tuh."</p><p>Padahal honestly, gue sama sekali nggak tau itu apaan.</p><p>Gue pikir customer journey tuh simple aja... tau kan, orang mau beli sesuatu ya gitu-gitu aja. Liat iklan, klik website, beli produk, kelar. Linear. Gampang. Bisa ditebak.</p><p>Sampe akhirnya gue liat sendiri customer beneran nyoba pake produk kita.</p><p>Sarah, marketing manager umur 32, mau disuruh gue amatin waktu dia explore project management app kita. Yang gue saksiin bener-bener bikin hancur semua asumsi gue tentang "customer journey" itu.</p><p><strong>Reality Check yang Sakit Banget</strong></p><p>Sarah nggak mulai journey-nya sama produk kita dari iklan atau homepage kita. Dia mulainya tiga minggu sebelumnya, kesel sama tool yang sekarang, terus curhat sama temen kantor di pantry. Dia bahkan nggak sadar kalo dia udah mulai "perjalanan" sama kita.</p><p>Pas akhirnya dia sampe ke website kita, dia nggak baca value prop yang udah kita bikin susah payah. Malah langsung scroll ke pricing, bingung sama pilihan tiga tier kita, buka lima tab sekaligus buat bandingin competitor, terus keganggu notif Slack, hampir tutup browser.</p><p>Abis itu dia nelpon temen yang kerja di startup tech: "Eh lu tau [produk kita] nggak?" Ngobrol dua puluh menit, terus balik lagi ke website kita tapi udah bawa pertanyaan yang beda total dari yang kita kira.</p><p>Pas dia akhirnya daftar free trial, ternyata dia udah kenal brand kita dari comparison page competitor, iklan podcast yang didenger pas commute, post LinkedIn mantan temen kerja, sama YouTube review yang ditonton sambil makan siang.</p><p>"Journey" dia sama sekali nggak mirip flowchart rapi yang ada di kepala gue.</p><p><strong>Yang Sebenernya Ditangkep Customer Journey Maps</strong></p><p>Ngeliat Sarah jadi user kita ngajarin gue kalo customer journey maps itu bukan soal bikin jalur lurus dari awareness ke purchase. Ini soal ngerti realitas yang berantakan, nggak linear, penuh emosi tentang gimana manusia beneran bikin keputusan.</p><p>Customer journey map itu kayak papan investigasi detektif&#8212;nyambungin titik-titik dari bukti yang bertebaran buat ngerti apa yang beneran kejadian, kenapa bisa kejadian, sama gimana perasaan seseorang selama pengalaman itu.</p><p>Beda banget antara tau seseorang beli produk kita sama ngerti tiga malem begadang mereka riset alternatif, momen ragu pas hampir cancel trial, sama fitur kecil yang akhirnya yakiniin mereka upgrade ke paid.</p><p><strong>Komponen yang Beneran Berguna</strong></p><p>Abis bikin puluhan journey map dan salah melulu, ini dia elemen-elemen yang beneran kasih insight berguna:</p><p><strong>Touchpoints: Jejak yang Ketinggalan</strong></p><p>Ini bukan cuma "kunjungan website" atau "telpon customer support." Touchpoint yang real itu spesifik: "Googling 'project management software tim kecil' jam 11 malem abis telat deadline lagi." "Baca review jelek di G2 sambil nunggu kopi jadi." "Nanya di Slack channel #random siapa tau ada yang punya rekomendasi."</p><p>Sebagian besar customer touchpoint terjadi di luar kendali langsung kita. Tugas kita ngerti dimana moment-moment ini terjadi supaya bisa ada (atau minimal siap) pas penting.</p><p><strong>Emosi: Yang Beneran Ngegerakin</strong></p><p>Nah ini nih yang bikin kebanyakan tim jadi canggung. Lebih gampang map tindakan daripada perasaan. Padahal emosi yang ngegerakin keputusan jauh lebih kenceng daripada fitur atau harga.</p><p>Sarah overwhelmed pas bandingin 47 tool project management yang beda-beda. Dia ngerasa bodoh pas nggak bisa invite anggota tim. Dia lega pas email onboarding kita dateng persis waktu dia butuh bantuan. Dia bangga pas berhasil setup project pertama.</p><p>Map emosinya, baru deh kita ngerti pengalaman sebenernya.</p><p><strong>Aksi: Yang Mereka Beneran Lakuin (Bukan yang Kita Mau)</strong></p><p>Catat apa yang customer beneran lakuin, bukan yang kita harapin mereka lakuin di ideal flow kita. Sarah daftar pake Gmail pribadi bukan email kantor soalnya mau test dulu secara private. Dia nggak pernah nonton demo video tapi habis 30 menit baca dokumentasi help. Dia invite timnya sebelum selesain setup profile sendiri.</p><p>Kelakuan "salah" ini justru ngebocorin gimana orang lebih suka ngalamin produk kita.</p><p><strong>Kebutuhan: Yang Nggak Pernah Diucapin</strong></p><p>Di setiap tahap, customer butuh hal yang beda. Pas riset, Sarah butuh social proof&#8212;bukan daftar fitur. Pas trial, dia butuh quick win&#8212;bukan tutorial lengkap. Abis beli, dia butuh ngerasa pinter soal keputusannya&#8212;bukan overwhelmed sama fitur advanced.</p><p>Kebanyakan need nggak pernah diomong explicit. "Gue butuh yakin kalo gue nggak salah pilih" bukan feature request, tapi seringkali need paling penting yang harus diatasin.</p><p><strong>Journey Nggak Pernah Berenti di Tempat yang Kita Kira</strong></p><p>Ini yang butuh bertahun-tahun buat gue ngerti: customer journey nggak berenti di pembelian. Bahkan nggak berenti pas onboarding berhasil.</p><p>Journey Sarah lanjut terus lewat project tim pertama, keputusan renewal pertama, hari dia rekomen kita ke department lain, sampe momen dia jadi orang yang jawab pertanyaan di komen LinkedIn soal project management tool.</p><p>Setiap fase punya touchpoint, emosi, aksi, sama need yang beda. Orang yang riset produk kita beda sama orang yang pake harian, yang beda lagi sama orang yang mutusin mau perpanjang atau nggak.</p><p><strong>Kenapa Ini Penting Lebih dari "Benerin UX"</strong></p><p>Customer journey mapping ngubah cara seluruh organisasi mikir soal customer. Tim marketing berenti fokus cuma acquisition, mulai mikirin whole relationship. Tim produk liat gimana fitur ngaruh ke emosi, bukan cuma fungsionalitas. Tim customer success ngerti momen mana yang butuh bantuan proaktif.</p><p>Tapi perubahan terbesar itu personal. Pas kita bener-bener ngerti journey seseorang sama produk kita, kita berenti liat customer sebagai angka konversi dan mulai liat mereka sebagai manusia yang punya hidup rumit, prioritas yang bentrok, sama masalah real yang mereka coba selesaiin.</p><p><strong>Kenyataan Pahit Soal Kebanyakan Journey Map</strong></p><p>Kebanyakan customer journey map yang gue liat cantik, detail, tapi sama sekali nggak berguna soalnya cuma berdasar asumsi, bukan realitas. Tim bikinnya dari ruang meeting, nebak-nebak kelakuan customer tanpa pernah ngobrol sama customer beneran.</p><p>Journey mapping yang beneran butuh nyaman sama kekacauan, kontradiksi, sama truth yang nggak enak soal gimana orang sebenernya ngalamin produk kita.</p><p>Kadang customer suka fitur yang kita pikir nggak penting. Kadang mereka stuck di hal yang kita anggep intuitive. Kadang mereka selesaiin masalah pake produk kita dengan cara yang nggak pernah kita bayangin.</p><p>Tujuannya bukan bikin map yang sempurna. Tujuannya bikin map yang akurat.</p><p><strong>Journey Mulai dari Satu Obrolan</strong></p><p>Mau ngerti customer journey? Mulai dari satu customer real yang ceritain pengalaman mereka. Bukan survey atau data analytics&#8212;obrolan beneran dimana seseorang jelasin experience mereka dari awal sampe akhir.</p><p>Tanya hal kayak: "Kapan pertama kali nyadar butuh solusi kayak kita?" "Apa yang hampir bikin pilih yang lain?" "Apa yang kepikiran waktu mutusin?"</p><p>Dengerin bahasa mereka. Perhatiin emosi mereka. Fokus sama apa yang nggak mereka omongin sama pentingnya sama yang mereka omongin.</p><p>Customer journey mapping bukan soal bikin dokumentasi lengkap semua jalur yang mungkin lewat produk kita. Ini soal ngembanggin empati mendalam sama pengalaman manusia yang selesaiin masalah pake yang kita bikin.</p><p>"Ngerti customer journey bukan soal nebak apa yang customer bakal lakuin&#8212;tapi ngerti kenapa mereka lakuin apa yang mereka lakuin."</p><p>Cerita apa yang lagi dikasih tau customer kita soal journey mereka?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Create User Persona?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gue pernah bikin user persona yang cantik banget.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-create-user-persona</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/how-to-create-user-persona</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:48:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8aa4f49e-c7bb-4135-86c3-1cda0dc970ca_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gue pernah bikin user persona yang cantik banget. Lengkap sama foto stock photo user, deskripsi detail kayak "Sari, 28 tahun, suka yoga dan matcha latte, berpenghasilan 15 juta per bulan." Perfect banget di slide presentasi.</p><p>Cuma satu masalah: Sari ini nggak ada hubungannya sama user beneran.</p><p>Pas gue akhirnya ngobrol sama actual users, ternyata mereka nggak peduli sama yoga atau matcha latte. Mereka lebih suka ngemil cireng sambil nonton drakor. User persona gue yang "perfect" itu ternyata cuma fictional character yang hidup di kepala gue sendiri.</p><p>Sejak saat itu, gue ngerti kalo bikin user persona itu bukan soal bikin karakter novel. Ini soal ngerti manusia beneran dengan masalah beneran yang produk kita bisa bantu selesaiin.</p><p><strong>Persiapan: Sebelum Lo Mulai Ngekhayal</strong></p><p>Sebelum mulai bikin persona, ada beberapa hal yang harus lo siapin dulu. Dan ini bukan cuma googling "contoh user persona" terus copy paste.</p><p><strong>Step 1: Jelas-jelas Tujuannya</strong></p><p>Pertama, lo harus jujur sama diri sendiri: persona ini mau dipake buat apa sih? Buat impressin stakeholder? Buat panduan product development? Buat marketing strategy?</p><p>Soalnya persona buat marketing campaign sama persona buat feature prioritization itu bisa beda banget. Yang satu fokus ke emotional triggers, yang satu fokus ke use cases dan pain points.</p><p>Gue pernah bikin persona generic yang "bisa dipake buat semua keperluan." Hasilnya? Nggak berguna buat apapun. Better fokus ke satu tujuan spesifik.</p><p><strong>Step 2: Kumpulin Data Beneran (Bukan Asumsi)</strong></p><p>Ini bagian yang paling males dilakuin tapi paling penting: ngobrol sama actual users.</p><p>Gue tau, lebih gampang duduk di meja kerja sambil mikir "user kita pasti suka A, B, C" berdasar logic kita sendiri. Tapi realita sering nggak selogis yang kita kira.</p><p>Methods yang bisa lo pake:</p><ul><li><p>User interviews (yang paling powerful)</p></li><li><p>Survey (tapi jangan cuma rating 1-5, kasih open-ended questions)</p></li><li><p>Analytics data (lihat behavior patterns)</p></li><li><p>Customer support tickets (pain points ada di sini)</p></li><li><p>Social media stalking (legal kind, obviously)</p></li></ul><p><strong>Step 3: Cari Pola, Bukan Outliers</strong></p><p>Setelah ngumpulin data, jangan langsung excited sama satu cerita user yang unik banget. Cari patterns yang muncul berulang dari multiple users.</p><p>Kalo 8 dari 10 users bilang hal yang sama, itu pattern. Kalo cuma 1 user yang bilang sesuatu yang beda banget, itu mungkin outlier (atau mungkin insight berharga yang belum ketangkep, tapi hati-hati jangan overweight satu data point).</p><p><strong>Komponen User Persona yang Actually Matter</strong></p><p>Setelah trial and error berkali-kali, ini komponen yang beneran berguna:</p><p><strong>Nama &amp; Title: Bikin Dia Hidup</strong></p><p>Kasih nama yang memorable tapi nggak cheesy. "Digital Native Dewi" sounds forced. "Dewi, Social Media Manager" sounds real.</p><p>Tapi jangan terlalu stuck di nama. Yang penting karakter dan behaviornya, bukan namanya. Gue pernah spend 30 menit debatin nama persona padahal behaviornya masih blur.</p><p><strong>Background: Context yang Ngebentuk</strong></p><p>Ini bukan soal dimana dia kuliah atau hobi apa. Ini soal context yang actually ngaruh ke gimana dia make decisions.</p><p>Contoh: "Rina kerja di startup yang selalu pivot. Dia udah capek ganti-ganti tools terus, jadi sekarang skeptis sama semua 'revolutionary' software baru."</p><p>Context ini ngaruh ke product adoption behavior dia. Lebih valuable daripada tau dia suka kucing atau nggak.</p><p><strong>Kebutuhan: Yang Real, Bukan yang Ideal</strong></p><p>Jangan cuma tulis "butuh tool yang user-friendly." Too generic. Tulis kebutuhan spesifik dalam context spesifik.</p><p>"Butuh tool yang bisa dia setup sendiri tanpa minta bantuan IT, soalnya IT team di kantornya cuma 1 orang dan selalu busy."</p><p>Spesifik begini lebih actionable buat product development.</p><p><strong>Habits &amp; Behaviors: Where the Magic Happens</strong></p><p>Ini yang paling revealing. Bukan cuma "sering pake smartphone," tapi gimana mereka actually behave:</p><p>"Check email pertama kali jam 6 pagi sambil masih di kasur. Lebih suka voice note daripada typing panjang-panjang. Selalu buka 10+ tabs browser tapi lupa nutup. Install app baru tapi jarang explore fitur-fiturnya."</p><p>Behavior patterns ini kasih clues tentang gimana mereka bakal interact sama produk lo.</p><p><strong>Attitudes &amp; Emotions: The Hidden Drivers</strong></p><p>Yang ini sering di-skip padahal super penting. Gimana perasaan mereka tentang kategori produk lo? Tentang technology secara umum? Tentang spending money?</p><p>"Skeptis sama subscription model soalnya udah pernah ketipu free trial yang auto-charge. Prefer beli sekali bayar daripada monthly fee. Ngerasa overwhelmed kalo terlalu banyak fitur."</p><p>Attitudes ini ngaruh banget ke purchasing decisions dan product adoption.</p><p><strong>Tips Bikin Persona yang Actually Useful</strong></p><p>Dari pengalaman bikin persona yang gagal total sampe yang beneran berguna, ini tips-tips penting:</p><p><strong>Start Small, Think Big</strong></p><p>Jangan langsung bikin 5-7 personas. Mulai dari 1-2 yang paling common/important. Better punya 1 persona yang deep daripada 5 personas yang shallow.</p><p><strong>Make It Specific, Keep It Human</strong></p><p>"Millennial urban professional" itu bukan persona, itu demografi.</p><p>"Rudi, 29, product manager di fintech. Kerja 10 jam sehari tapi masih sempet main Mobile Legends sambil commute. Beli gadget impulsive tapi research tools kerja sampai berminggu-minggu" - ini persona.</p><p><strong>Update Regularly (Seriously)</strong></p><p>User behavior changes. Market changes. Your product changes. Persona yang dibuat 2 tahun lalu mungkin udah outdated.</p><p>Set reminder buat review personas setiap 6 bulan. Tambah data baru, adjust berdasar user feedback terbaru.</p><p><strong>Test Your Personas</strong></p><p>Cara paling gampang: tunjukin ke sales team atau customer support team. Mereka yang paling sering ngobrol sama actual customers. Kalo mereka bilang "eh iya nih, gue kenal banget sama tipe user kayak gini," berarti persona lo on track.</p><p><strong>Don't Fall in Love with Your Personas</strong></p><p>Ini mistake yang gue sering lihat. Tim jadi terlalu attached sama personas yang udah dibuat, sampe nolak data baru yang contradict persona itu.</p><p>Personas itu tools, bukan truth. Kalo data shows behavior yang beda, adjust personanya, jangan adjust datanya.</p><p><strong>The Reality Check</strong></p><p>User personas yang bagus itu yang bikin lo ngerti users dengan lebih baik, bukan yang bikin lo merasa udah ngerti users.</p><p>Yang bagus itu yang raise questions: "Wait, kenapa user type A prefer feature B? Gimana caranya kita address concern C? What if we approach problem D dari angle yang beda?"</p><p>Yang jelek itu yang bikin lo merasa "oh iya, users kita emang gitu kok. Udah sesuai expectation."</p><p><strong>Bottom Line</strong></p><p>User persona bukan tentang bikin profil lengkap seseorang yang mungkin pake produk lo. Ini tentang understand patterns of behavior, needs, dan attitudes yang drive real people's decisions dalam context yang relevant sama produk lo.</p><p>Personas yang bagus bikin tim lo bisa debate dengan lebih informed: "Tapi persona A nggak bakal pake fitur ini soalnya mereka prefer simple interface" atau "Feature ini penting banget buat persona B soalnya address main pain point mereka."</p><p>Kalo personas lo cuma jadi wall decoration di office atau slide presentasi yang nggak pernah dirujuk lagi, berarti something's wrong.</p><p>"User personas aren't about predicting what users will do&#8212;they're about understanding why users do what they do."</p><p>Siapa personas lo, dan apakah mereka reflect real humans atau cuma wishful thinking?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is User Persona?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dulu waktu gue bikin product, tim gue bilang: "Target audience kita millennials urban yang tech-savvy dengan income menengah ke atas."]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-user-persona</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-user-persona</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:21:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f4c9485f-674d-458e-8c02-b54be8a46fc2_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dulu waktu gue bikin product, tim gue bilang: "Target audience kita millennials urban yang tech-savvy dengan income menengah ke atas."</p><p>Sounds legit, right? Wrong.</p><p>Ternyata "millennials urban tech-savvy" itu bukan target audience. Itu cuma demographic bucket yang terlalu luas dan nggak actionable. Di dalam kategori itu ada software engineer yang obsessed sama efficiency, ada content creator yang butuh tools yang Instagram-worthy, ada working mom yang cuma mau something yang works tanpa ribet.</p><p>Mereka semua millennials urban tech-savvy, tapi mereka butuh produk yang completely different.</p><p>That's when gue belajar tentang user personas. Dan ternyata, kebanyakan orang (including me dulu) salah paham soal apa itu user persona dan kenapa penting banget.</p><p><strong>What Actually Is User Persona?</strong></p><p>User persona bukan cuma demographic profile yang dikasih nama dan foto stock photo. Itu yang gue pikir dulu, dan gue totally wrong.</p><p>User persona itu fictional character yang dibuat based on real data tentang real users, yang represent a specific segment dari user base lo. Tapi fictional-nya bukan dalam artian "gue bikin-bikin sendiri," melainkan "gue compile data dari banyak real users yang punya similar patterns jadi satu archetypal character."</p><p>Contoh persona yang useless: "Rina, 28, marketing manager, suka coffee dan travel."</p><p>Contoh persona yang useful: "Rina, marketing manager di agency kecil yang handle 15+ klien sekaligus. Dia overwhelmed sama banyaknya tools yang harus dia pake setiap hari dan desperate mau sesuatu yang bisa consolidate workflow-nya. Skeptis sama new tools soalnya udah cape onboarding terus, tapi willing to try kalo really solve her problem. Check phone pertama kali jam 6 pagi dan terakhir jam 11 malam."</p><p>Yang kedua kasih actionable insights. Yang pertama cuma demographic trivia.</p><p><strong>Kenapa User Persona Penting Banget?</strong></p><p>Setelah bertahun-tahun trial and error, gue ngerti kenapa user personas itu game-changer:</p><p><strong>Decision-Making Jadi Nggak Abstract</strong></p><p>Dulu waktu meeting product, diskusi kita abstract banget: "Hmm, menurut lo user suka fitur A atau B ya?" Sekarang diskusi jadi specific: "Rina bakal frustrasi sama fitur A soalnya adds one more step ke workflow-nya yang udah chaotic. Tapi fitur B solve her main pain point."</p><p>Gue jadi punya concrete reference point buat every product decision.</p><p><strong>Design Decisions Jadi Clear</strong></p><p>Dulu gue design berdasar "best practices" dan personal preference. Sekarang gue design berdasar user behavior yang specific. "Rina check email di commute pake 4G yang lemot, jadi hero section harus load cepet dengan image yang minimal."</p><p>Every design choice punya justification yang relate back to real user needs.</p><p><strong>Marketing Jadi Targeted</strong></p><p>Instead of generic messaging like "Increase your productivity!" gue bisa bikin messaging yang resonate: "Stop switching between 10 different tools. Manage all your client projects in one place."</p><p>Yang pertama generic dan boring. Yang kedua speak directly to Rina's specific pain point.</p><p><strong>Team Alignment</strong></p><p>Yang paling powerful: seluruh tim jadi aligned soal who we're building for. Sales tau exactly siapa yang mereka approach, customer success tau what onboarding challenges to expect, developers understand the context behind feature requests.</p><p><strong>Karakteristik User Persona yang Actually Useful</strong></p><p>Setelah bikin puluhan personas (yang sebagian useless), ini characteristics yang bikin persona beneran valuable:</p><p><strong>Specific, Bukan Generic</strong></p><p>"Young professionals" = useless "First-time managers di startup yang overwhelmed sama responsibility baru dan butuh tools yang help them look competent in front of their team" = useful</p><p>Semakin specific, semakin actionable.</p><p><strong>Based on Real Data</strong></p><p>Jangan bikin personas dari conference room brainstorming session. Interview real users, analyze support tickets, look at usage patterns, stalk social media behavior (the legal kind).</p><p>Gue punya spreadsheet dengan quotes actual users yang gue reference pas bikin personas. "This tool makes me feel like I know what I'm doing" itu real quote yang shape product messaging.</p><p><strong>Emotionally Realistic</strong></p><p>Include fears, frustrations, dan motivations. "Takut keliatan nggak competent di depan tim," "Frustrasi sama tools yang bikin dia kerja lebih lama," "Motivated sama recognition dari boss."</p><p>Emotions drive decisions more than logic.</p><p><strong>Addressable</strong></p><p>Persona lo harus represent segment yang actually bisa lo reach dan serve dengan resources yang ada. Jangan bikin persona untuk Fortune 500 CEOs kalo lo indie developer yang belum punya enterprise sales team.</p><p><strong>Actionable</strong></p><p>Setiap element di persona harus bisa translate ke product atau marketing decisions. Kalo ada info yang nggak actionable, buang aja. Less is more.</p><p><strong>Kapan Lo Actually Butuh User Personas?</strong></p><p>User personas paling valuable di specific moments:</p><p><strong>Product Direction Decisions</strong></p><p>"Should we build feature X or Y?" becomes "Which feature would help Rina accomplish her goals faster?"</p><p><strong>Marketing Message Testing</strong></p><p>"Would this headline resonate with our target audience?" becomes "Would this headline catch Rina's attention when she's scrolling LinkedIn during lunch break?"</p><p><strong>Feature Prioritization</strong></p><p>"What should we build next?" becomes "What's the next biggest pain point for Rina that we can realistically solve?"</p><p><strong>User Experience Decisions</strong></p><p>"How should this flow work?" becomes "How would Rina expect this to work based on other tools she uses?"</p><p><strong>The Reality Check</strong></p><p>User personas aren't magic. Mereka cuma tools yang membantu lo make better decisions with limited information.</p><p>Yang penting diingat: personas represent patterns dari real user data, bukan wishful thinking tentang siapa yang lo mau jadi users.</p><p>Kalo lo bikin personas tapi nggak pernah di-reference dalam actual decision making, berarti lo cuma bikin wall decoration yang mahal.</p><p>Dan jangan jatuh cinta sama personas lo sampai lo refuse data yang contradict. Personas should evolve as you learn more about your users.</p><p><strong>The Bottom Line</strong></p><p>User persona yang bagus itu yang bikin lo constantly ask: "What would [persona name] do in this situation? What do they need? What frustrates them? What makes them happy?"</p><p>Kalo tim lo bisa jawab questions itu dengan confident dan specific, congratulations&#8212;lo punya useful personas.</p><p>Kalo jawaban lo masih generic kayak "they want good user experience," mungkin personas lo needs more work.</p><p>"User personas aren't about predicting behavior&#8212;they're about understanding the human behind the behavior."</p><p>Siapa personas lo, dan seberapa well lo actually know them?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Februari 2020.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/black-swan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/black-swan</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:46:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/52309f67-e605-4a8a-8eb4-df9fae735012_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Februari 2020. Gue sebagai product manager lagi excited banget sama roadmap ambitious yang baru gue present ke leadership team. Plan-nya mau launch 3 fitur besar dalam 6 bulan, expand ke 2 vertical market baru, hire 15 engineer tambahan. User growth projections optimis, budget udah diapprove, timeline udah locked.</p><p>Terus tiba-tiba ada kabar virus aneh di Wuhan. "Ah, jauh," pikir gue. "Paling cuma flu biasa yang dilebay-lebayiin media."</p><p>Dua minggu kemudian, seluruh dunia lockdown.</p><p>Product roadmap gue yang tadinya aggressive langsung di-freeze. Feature launches ditunda indefinitely. Market expansion dibatalin. Tim engineering yang mau di-hire malah jadi concern tentang lay-offs. Dari mode growth, tiba-tiba jadi mode survival.</p><p>Saat itulah gue bener-bener ngerti apa itu kejadian Black Swan.</p><p><strong>Apa Sih Black Swan Itu?</strong></p><p>Black Swan bukan burung hitam ya guys. Ini istilah yang dipopulerin sama Nassim Nicholas Taleb dalam bukunya yang keren banget, "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable."</p><p>Pada dasarnya, Black Swan itu kejadian yang:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Sangat langka</strong> - kemungkinannya kecil banget, hampir mustahil</p></li><li><p><strong>Dampak besar</strong> - pas terjadi, efeknya huge banget ke segala hal</p></li><li><p><strong>Bisa diprediksi setelah kejadian</strong> - setelah terjadi, orang-orang pada bilang "oh iya sih, harusnya kita bisa lihat kedatangannya"</p></li></ol><p>Nama "Black Swan" datang dari asumsi lama orang Eropa bahwa semua angsa itu putih. Sampai tahun 1697, orang Eropa nemuin angsa hitam di Australia. Boom - asumsi yang udah bertahun-tahun dipegang jadi salah dalam sekejap.</p><p>Yang bikin kejadian Black Swan menakutkan (dan powerful) adalah manusia secara alami jelek dalam memprediksi kejadian langka dengan konsekuensi besar.</p><p><strong>Kejadian Black Swan yang Gue Saksiiin (Dan Mungkin Lo Juga)</strong></p><p><strong>Pandemi COVID-19</strong> Jelas banget sih ini. Siapa yang nyangka awal 2020 bahwa ada virus yang bakal shutdown seluruh planet? Bahkan ahli epidemiologi nggak prediksi keparahannya bakal segini.</p><p>Dampaknya lebih dari sekedar kesehatan: revolusi kerja dari rumah, boom e-commerce, collapse industri travel, bangkitnya digital everything. Benar-benar mengubah cara kita hidup dan kerja.</p><p><strong>Serangan 9/11</strong> Sebelum 2001, siapa yang mikir mungkin serangan teroris bisa menghancurkan World Trade Center? Keamanan penerbangan waktu itu masih santai, orang-orang nggak merasa terancam naik pesawat.</p><p>Akibatnya: benar-benar mengubah keamanan global, menciptakan TSA, memicu perang, menggeser geopolitik selama puluhan tahun.</p><p><strong>Krisis Keuangan 2008</strong> "Harga rumah nggak mungkin turun secara nasional." Itu pemikiran umum waktu itu. Bank-bank dianggap "terlalu besar untuk gagal." Sampai mereka benar-benar gagal.</p><p>Lehman Brothers, AIG, Bear Stearns - runtuh dalam hitungan minggu. Resesi global. Jutaan orang kehilangan rumah, pekerjaan, tabungan hidup.</p><p><strong>Bangkitnya Media Sosial</strong> 2004, Facebook cuma proyek kampus. 2007, iPhone diluncurkan. Siapa yang prediksi dalam 15 tahun media sosial bakal mengontrol diskusi publik, pengaruhi pemilu, ciptain epidemi kesehatan mental baru?</p><p>Yang menarik, ini Black Swan positif yang nggak ada yang lihat kedatangannya tapi dampaknya besar banget.</p><p><strong>Ledakan Crypto</strong> Bitcoin di 2010 cuma worth beberapa sen. Siapa yang mikir uang digital yang dibuat orang anonim bakal tembus 60K+ dollar dan buat ekosistem keuangan baru?</p><p><strong>Gimana Cara "Bersiap" buat Yang Nggak Bisa Diprediksi?</strong></p><p>Ini paradoks Black Swan: lo nggak bisa prediksi, tapi lo bisa bersiap. Ini yang gue pelajari dari pengalaman dan karya Taleb:</p><p><strong>Bangun Ketahanan Anti-Rapuh, Bukan Cuma Resiliensi</strong></p><p>Resiliensi = bertahan dari goncangan Anti-rapuh = jadi lebih kuat dari goncangan</p><p>Contoh: daripada cuma punya dana darurat (resiliensi), punya portofolio yang untung dari volatilitas dan ketidakpastian (anti-rapuh).</p><p>Gue sekarang diversifikasi sumber penghasilan, bangun skill yang valuable apapun kondisi ekonominya, jaga network yang bantu di situasi apapun.</p><p><strong>Taruhan Asimetris</strong></p><p>Cari peluang dengan kerugian terbatas tapi keuntungan nggak terbatas.</p><p>Contoh: invest jumlah kecil di peluang high-risk high-reward. Kalo gagal, ruginya kecil. Kalo berhasil, untungnya bisa besar banget.</p><p>Waktu pandemi, gue taruh sedikit uang di bisnis digital yang sebelumnya dianggap "nice to have." Beberapa gagal, tapi yang berhasil lebih dari cukup nutupin kerugian.</p><p><strong>Hindari Black Swan Negatif</strong></p><p>Beberapa Black Swan bisa menghancurkan lo total. Hindari single point of failure.</p><p>Jangan taruh semua telur dalam satu keranjang - entah itu bisnis, karir, investasi, atau relationships. Diversifikasi semuanya.</p><p><strong>Tetap Likuid dan Fleksibel</strong></p><p>Uang cash mungkin jelek di masa normal, tapi selama kejadian Black Swan, likuiditas adalah raja. Selalu sisain dry powder buat peluang atau emergency.</p><p>Sama dengan skill dan mindset. Tetap adaptif. Pemikiran kaku membunuh saat kejadian yang nggak pernah ada sebelumnya.</p><p><strong>Belajar dari Sejarah</strong></p><p>Kejadian Black Swan mengulang pola, meski detailnya beda. Pelajari krisis keuangan, pandemi, disrupsi teknologi, pergolakan sosial.</p><p>Bukan buat prediksi kejadian berikutnya, tapi buat ngerti jenis kerentanan dan respons yang berhasil.</p><p><strong>Bangun Pilihan</strong></p><p>Ciptain situasi dimana lo punya banyak pilihan. Lebih banyak opsi = lebih siap buat manfaatin ketidakpastian.</p><p>Gue sekarang selalu jaga beberapa proyek, hubungan, skill yang bisa diaktifin tergantung keadaan.</p><p><strong>Kebenaran yang Nggak Nyaman</strong></p><p>Kebanyakan orang benci ketidakpastian. Kita mau hasil yang bisa diprediksi, rencana yang stabil, hasil yang terjamin. Tapi kejadian Black Swan buktiin bahwa ketidakpastian adalah bagian fundamental dari hidup.</p><p>Yang ironis: menerima ketidakpastian justru bikin lo lebih siap daripada coba prediksi segala hal.</p><p>Perusahaan yang bertahan COVID bukan yang punya rencana pandemi sempurna (nggak ada yang punya). Mereka yang dibangun buat adaptabilitas dan punya resources buat pivot cepet.</p><p><strong>Mindset Black Swan</strong></p><p>Daripada nanya "Apa yang akan terjadi?" tanya "Bagaimana kalo gue salah total soal apa yang akan terjadi?"</p><p>Bikin skenario. Main advokat iblis sama asumsi lo sendiri. Pertanyakan kebijaksanaan konvensional, especially yang "semua orang tau itu benar."</p><p>Yang terpenting, jangan bingung antara nggak ada bukti dengan bukti nggak ada. Cuma karena sesuatu belum terjadi bukan berarti nggak bisa terjadi.</p><p><strong>Sisi Baiknya</strong></p><p>Kejadian Black Swan, meski disruptif, sering mempercepat perubahan positif yang normalnya butuh puluhan tahun.</p><p>COVID mempercepat transformasi digital, penerimaan kerja dari rumah, adopsi telemedicine. Krisis keuangan 2008 memicu revolusi fintech. 9/11, meski tragis, meningkatkan kerjasama keamanan global.</p><p>Yang bertahan dan berkembang selama kejadian Black Swan sering muncul lebih kuat dan lebih siap buat masa depan.</p><p><strong>Intinya</strong></p><p>Gue nggak bisa bilang kapan Black Swan berikutnya akan datang atau bentuknya kayak apa. Nggak ada yang bisa.</p><p>Tapi gue bisa bilang ini: itu akan terjadi. Mungkin saat lo paling nggak nyangka, dengan cara yang nggak bisa lo bayangin, dengan konsekuensi yang nggak bisa lo prediksi.</p><p>Pertanyaannya bukan apakah lo bisa prediksi. Pertanyaannya apakah lo bisa bertahan dan mungkin bahkan untung darinya.</p><p>"Kejadian Black Swan mengingatkan kita bahwa dunia jauh lebih kompleks dan nggak bisa diprediksi daripada yang kita suka pikir. Yang bijak nggak coba prediksi mereka&#8212;mereka bersiap buat dance dengan mereka."</p><p>Seberapa siap lo buat Black Swan berikutnya?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I want everything to be perfect]]></title><description><![CDATA[We want everything to be perfect, We want people to amaze instantly when they look at our creation We want them to praise us We want to be validated by most of the people as someone who are among the best Actually I've been struggling with this for a long time. Struggling dengan perasaan yang selalu mencari validasi, pujian ataupun salutation dari orang lain. Do any of you face the same thing?]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/when-i-want-everything-to-be-perfect</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/when-i-want-everything-to-be-perfect</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:17:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ec032ca-d5f3-4e3e-98d9-53bfd4a85c34_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We want everything to be perfect,</p><p>We want people to amaze instantly when they look at our creation</p><p>We want them to praise us</p><p>We want to be validated by most of the people as someone who are among the best</p><p>Actually I've been struggling with this for a long time. Struggling dengan perasaan yang selalu mencari validasi, pujian ataupun salutation dari orang lain. Do any of you face the same thing? </p><p>Ketika akan melakukan suatu pekerjaan dan kebaikan, hal pertama yang kita ingin dapatkan adalah pujian dan apresiasi dari orang - orang yang diharapkan. Padahal seharusnya yang jadi fokus utama adalah bagaimana menyelesaikan pekerjaan dan kebaikan itu sebaik mungkin sehingga bisa menghasilkan <em>value</em>.</p><p>Di suatu waktu saya pernah mendengar bahwa ini merupakan salah satu Personality Disorder yang mana ini berarti adalah suatu kelainan di dalam sisi kepribadian kita.</p><p>Lalu haruskah kita menghilangkan sifat ini?</p><p>Kalau menurut saya, hal ini tidak sepenuhnya jahat tetapi jika berlebihan akan memberikan dampak yang sangat buruk. Tidak cuma ke diri kita, tapi juga ke lingkungan sekitar.</p><p>Selain itu, sepertinya juga akan sangat sulit untuk menghilangkan sifat ini karena pada dasarnya manusia adalah makhluk sosial yang selalu mencari <em>attention</em> dan <em>interaction </em>dengan orang lain. Sehingga sangat wajar jika kita ingin lebih dari sekitar kita supaya mendapatkan perhatian tersebut.</p><p>So, <em>What&#8217;s next?</em></p><p>Selanjutnya kita harus belajar bagaimana mengendalikan diri dan perasaan ini. Menjaganya di kadar yang sewajarnya. Tidak menempatkannya selalu menjadi tujuan utama dari setiap aksi kita.</p><p>Sulit. Pasti. Apalagi di awal.</p><p>Tapi seperti kata James Clear dalam bukunya Atomic Habits,</p><blockquote><p><em>All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. </em></p></blockquote><p>Setiap perubahan dimulai dari sebuah keputusan kecil. Keputusan kecil yang terus berulang inilah yang nanti akan membentuk habit kita yang baru.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Value Proposition?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dulu gue punya produk dengan 47 fitur berbeda.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-value-proposition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/what-is-value-proposition</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:44:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ca084452-18db-4fcb-887e-ec33e55410b9_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dulu gue punya produk dengan 47 fitur berbeda. Serius, gue hitung. Dashboard analytics, real-time notifications, customizable themes, integration dengan 15 platform, advanced filters, bulk operations&#8212;literally everything yang bisa gue pikirin.</p><p>Waktu demo ke potential customer, gue excited banget jelasin semua fitur ini. "Liat nih, ini bisa generate laporan dalam 12 format berbeda! Dan ini ada AI-powered recommendations!"</p><p>Response mereka? "Hmm, interesting. Tapi kami sebenernya cuma butuh yang simple aja."</p><p>Deal nggak close.</p><p>Berbulan-bulan kemudian, gue ketemu startup yang produknya cuma punya 3 fitur utama. Basic banget dibanding produk gue. Tapi mereka laku keras. Kenapa?</p><p>Karena mereka paham value proposition. Gue enggak.</p><p><strong>Apa Sih Value Proposition Itu Sebenernya?</strong></p><p>Value proposition bukan daftar fitur produk lo. Bukan juga tagline keren buat marketing.</p><p>Value proposition itu jawaban simple untuk pertanyaan: "Kenapa gue harus peduli sama produk lo?"</p><p>Tapi jawaban yang specific banget. Bukan "karena produk kami berkualitas" atau "karena kami yang terbaik." Jawaban yang bikin orang mikir: "Oh iya, exactly itu yang gue butuhin."</p><p>Contohnya:</p><ul><li><p>Uber: "Transport yang datang dalam hitungan menit tanpa repot telepon atau nunggu di pinggir jalan"</p></li><li><p>Gojek: "Apapun yang lo butuhin, tinggal tap - dari transport sampai makanan sampai bersih-bersih rumah"</p></li><li><p>Zoom: "Video meeting yang nggak ribet, join tinggal klik link"</p></li></ul><p>Notice nggak ada yang bilang "aplikasi terbaik" atau "teknologi canggih." Semuanya fokus ke specific problem yang diselesaiin dan specific benefit yang didapet.</p><p><strong>Gimana Bikin Value Proposition yang Actually Works?</strong></p><p>Setelah trial and error bertahun-tahun (dan banyak produk yang gagal), ini framework yang gue pake:</p><p><strong>Step 1: Lupa Dulu Soal Produk Lo</strong></p><p>Ini counterintuitive, tapi effective value proposition mulai dari ngerti customer problem dulu, bukan produk features.</p><p>Spend time sama potential customers. Tanya:</p><ul><li><p>Apa yang bikin mereka frustrasi sekarang?</p></li><li><p>Gimana mereka selesaiin masalah itu hari ini?</p></li><li><p>Apa yang mereka wish ada tapi nggak tersedia?</p></li></ul><p>Jangan langsung jelasin produk lo. Dengerin dulu.</p><p><strong>Step 2: Identifikasi The One Thing</strong></p><p>Most products bisa solve banyak masalah. Tapi effective value proposition fokus ke satu masalah yang paling painful buat target customer lo.</p><p>Contoh salah: "Aplikasi kami membantu manage project, track time, collaborate tim, dan generate reports."</p><p>Contoh benar: "Buat project manager yang cape ngejar-ngejar tim buat update progress."</p><p>Yang kedua specific banget ke one painful problem. Yang pertama generic dan overwhelming.</p><p><strong>Step 3: Articulate Nilai Unik Lo</strong></p><p>Ini bukan soal fitur yang nggak ada di competitor. Ini soal approach atau outcome yang berbeda.</p><p>Dropbox bukan cloud storage pertama. Tapi mereka yang pertama bikin sync file jadi seamless banget. "File lo selalu update di semua device" - itu value yang unique.</p><p>Slack bukan messaging app pertama. Tapi mereka yang bikin "replace email untuk internal communication" jadi reality.</p><p><strong>Step 4: Test dengan Real People</strong></p><p>Value proposition yang bagus itu yang bikin orang immediately ngerti dan relate.</p><p>Test lo: jelasin value proposition lo ke 10 orang dalam 30 detik. Kalo mereka masih bingung atau nanya "maksudnya gimana?", berarti belum clear.</p><p>Kalo mereka respond "oh iya, gue sering ngalamin masalah itu," berarti lo on the right track.</p><p><strong>Contoh Value Proposition yang Gue Pelajari</strong></p><p><strong>Netflix (dulu)</strong>: "Sewa DVD online tanpa late fees" Simple banget tapi solve massive pain point dari Blockbuster era.</p><p><strong>Tesla</strong>: "Mobil listrik yang nggak kayak mobil listrik" Addressed perception bahwa electric cars itu boring dan limited.</p><p><strong>Warby Parker</strong>: "Kacamata designer dengan harga reasonable yang bisa lo coba di rumah dulu" Perfect buat orang yang males ke optik tapi takut salah beli online.</p><p><strong>WhatsApp</strong>: "SMS gratis lewat internet" Back when SMS masih bayar per message, ini revolutionary.</p><p><strong>Kesalahan yang Sering Gue Lihat</strong></p><p><strong>Feature Laundry List</strong> "Produk kami punya dashboard analytics, real-time sync, mobile app, API integration, customizable workflows..."</p><p>Nobody cares tentang daftar fitur. They care tentang outcome.</p><p><strong>Too Generic</strong> "Solusi terbaik untuk kebutuhan bisnis Anda"</p><p>Ini bisa dipake buat any product. Nggak meaningful.</p><p><strong>Inside-Out Thinking</strong> "Kami menggunakan teknologi AI terdepan dengan machine learning algorithms..."</p><p>Customer nggak peduli teknologi lo. They care sama result yang mereka dapet.</p><p><strong>Comparison Trap</strong> "Seperti [competitor] tapi lebih murah/lebih cepat/lebih bagus"</p><p>Ini positioning lo sebagai alternative, bukan first choice.</p><p><strong>Framework Sederhana yang Gue Pake</strong></p><p>Isi blank ini:</p><p>"Buat [specific customer type] yang [struggling dengan specific problem], [nama produk] adalah [category] yang [unique approach/benefit]. Nggak kayak [current alternatives], produk kami [key differentiator]."</p><p>Contoh: "Buat freelancer yang struggling dengan invoice payment yang telat terus, [product name] adalah payment platform yang auto follow-up client sampe bayar. Nggak kayak send email manual berkali-kali, sistem kami yang handle semua communication sampe duit masuk."</p><p><strong>Reality Check</strong></p><p>Value proposition yang bagus nggak guarantee success. Tapi value proposition yang jelek almost guarantee failure.</p><p>Bahkan produk terbaik di dunia bakal struggle kalo nggak bisa articulate kenapa orang harus peduli.</p><p>Dan remember: value proposition lo mungkin perlu evolve. WhatsApp started sebagai "SMS gratis," tapi sekarang jadi "communicate dengan anyone, anywhere." Tesla started dengan "luxury electric sports car," sekarang jadi "sustainable transportation untuk semua."</p><p><strong>Test Terakhir</strong></p><p>Kalo lo ketemu someone di lift dan mereka nanya "lo kerja di mana sih?", lo bisa jelasin value proposition dalam waktu sampai lift buka di lantai mereka?</p><p>Kalo bisa dan mereka interested, congratulations - lo punya value proposition yang clear.</p><p>Kalo mereka masih bingung atau politely smile terus ngelihat HP, mungkin perlu dipoles lagi.</p><p>"Value proposition yang bagus bukan soal lo punya produk terbaik - tapi soal lo bisa articulate kenapa produk lo matter buat specific people dengan specific problems."</p><p>Apa value proposition produk lo, dan apakah orang immediately ngerti kenapa mereka harus peduli?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining Problem that We Want to Solve]]></title><description><![CDATA[Identify Problem]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/defining-problem-that-we-want-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/defining-problem-that-we-want-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1014a029-1eae-47eb-b609-f3ec7c308ab9_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Identify Problem</h1><p>Sebagai Product Manager, salah satu tugas utama kita adalah menentukan masalah yang ingin kita selesaikan. Ini bisa berupa masalah yang dihadapi pelanggan saat menggunakan produk kita, atau masalah yang mencegah pelanggan untuk menggunakan produk kita.</p><p>Untuk menentukan masalah yang ingin kita selesaikan, pertama-tama kita perlu mengidentifikasi kebutuhan dan harapan dari pelanggan atau target pasar kita. Ini bisa dilakukan dengan berbagai cara, seperti melakukan riset pasar, wawancara dengan pelanggan, atau mengumpulkan umpan balik dari produk yang sudah ada.</p><p>Setelah mengidentifikasi kebutuhan dan harapan pelanggan, kita perlu menentukan masalah spesifik yang ingin diselesaikan. Ini bisa berupa masalah yang dihadapi pelanggan saat menggunakan produk kita, atau masalah yang mencegah pelanggan untuk menggunakan produk kita.</p><p>Setelah masalah teridentifikasi, kita perlu mengevaluasi prioritas masalah tersebut dan menentukan bagaimana cara menyelesaikannya. Ini bisa dilakukan dengan menggunakan teknik seperti <em>priority matrix</em> atau <em>cost-benefit analysis</em>.</p><h1>Defining Problem</h1><p>Untuk mendefinisikan masalah, perlu dilakukan beberapa langkah:</p><ol><li><p>Tentukan <em>product goal</em>. Tujuan ini harus spesifik dan tertulis, sehingga mudah diukur dan dijadikan acuan dalam mengevaluasi keberhasilan produk.</p></li><li><p>Buat deskripsi masalah. Deskripsi masalah harus menjelaskan secara detail kondisi saat ini dan mengapa masalah tersebut penting untuk diselesaikan.</p></li><li><p>Tentukan target/impact. Target dan impact ini harus spesifik dan terukur, sehingga mudah untuk menentukan keberhasilan produk dalam mencapai sasaran tersebut.</p></li><li><p>Tentukan success criteria. Success criteria harus merinci kondisi yang diinginkan setelah masalah diselesaikan, sehingga mudah untuk mengevaluasi keberhasilan produk.</p></li></ol><p>Mendefinisikan masalah dengan baik akan membantu product manager dalam mengembangkan produk dengan solusi yang tepat dan mencapai tujuan bisnis. Selain itu, mendefinisikan masalah juga dapat membantu dalam mengelola anggaran dan waktu secara efektif, karena memungkinkan untuk fokus pada solusi yang terukur dan berdampak besar.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Product Manager based on Their Background]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sebagai seorang Product Manager, ada berbagai macam latar belakang yang dapat membawa kontribusi yang unik ke dalam pekerjaannya.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/product-manager-based-on-their-background</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/product-manager-based-on-their-background</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:40:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b54f80b-adea-4b6f-a85f-a3bd24028b15_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sebagai seorang Product Manager, ada berbagai macam latar belakang yang dapat membawa kontribusi yang unik ke dalam pekerjaannya. Berikut ini adalah beberapa jenis Product Manager berdasarkan latar belakang mereka:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Product Manager dengan latar belakang bisnis</strong></p><p>Product Manager dengan latar belakang bisnis biasanya memiliki pemahaman yang kuat tentang bagaimana cara mengoperasikan bisnis dan mengefisienkan proses untuk mencapai tujuan. Mereka juga biasanya memiliki jaringan kontak yang luas dalam industri yang berguna untuk mengembangkan produk dan memperluas pasar.<br></p></li><li><p><strong>Product Manager dengan latar belakang teknologi</strong></p><p>Product Manager dengan latar belakang teknologi biasanya memiliki pengetahuan mendalam tentang teknologi dan bagaimana cara mengaplikasikannya dalam pengembangan produk. </p><p>Mereka juga biasanya mampu bekerja sama dengan tim teknologi untuk mengatasi masalah teknis dan menjamin bahwa produk yang dikembangkan sesuai dengan standar kualitas yang tinggi.<br></p></li><li><p><strong>Product Manager dengan latar belakang desain</strong></p><p>Product Manager dengan latar belakang desain biasanya memiliki kemampuan untuk mengerti dan mengekspresikan kebutuhan pengguna secara visual. Mereka juga biasanya memiliki pemahaman yang baik tentang bagaimana cara menciptakan produk yang intuitif dan mudah digunakan, serta mampu bekerja sama dengan tim desain untuk mencapai hasil yang terbaik.<br></p></li><li><p><strong>Product Manager dengan latar belakang sales</strong></p><p>Product Manager dengan latar belakang penjualan biasanya memiliki kemampuan untuk mengerti dan memprediksi kebutuhan pasar. Mereka juga biasanya memiliki kemampuan untuk mengkomunikasikan manfaat dari produk secara efektif kepada calon konsumen dan bekerja sama dengan tim penjualan untuk mencapai target penjualan.<br></p></li><li><p><strong>Product Manager yang berlatar belakang di bidang komunikasi</strong></p><p>Mereka biasanya memiliki latar belakang pendidikan di bidang komunikasi atau jurnalisme, dan memiliki pengalaman kerja di bidang yang sama. Manajer produk dengan latar belakang komunikasi ini biasanya memiliki kemampuan berkomunikasi yang baik, dan dapat memahami kebutuhan pengguna akan informasi yang jelas dan mudah dipahami.</p><p></p></li></ul><p>Dengan demikian, latar belakang yang beragam dapat membantu Product Manager dalam mengembangkan produk yang sukses dan sesuai dengan kebutuhan pasar.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hello, my self. How are you?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche pernah berbicara lantang, &#8220;But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself&#8221;. Musuh terbesar yang banyak dari kita tidak menyadarinya karena mungkin selama ini tidak sadar bahwa dia ada. Seperti seorang raja yang tidak pernah sadar bahwa yang nanti akan melakukan kudeta justru datang dari keluarganya sendiri, bukan dari kerajaan lain yang selama ini ditakutinya.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/hello-my-self-how-are-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/hello-my-self-how-are-you</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/12c643d9-9802-49c6-8f10-aa0513a12915_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friedrich Nietzsche pernah berbicara lantang, <em>&#8220;But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself&#8221;. </em></p><p>Musuh terbesar yang banyak dari kita tidak menyadarinya karena mungkin selama ini tidak sadar bahwa dia ada.</p><p>Seperti seorang raja yang tidak pernah sadar bahwa yang nanti akan melakukan kudeta justru datang dari keluarganya sendiri, bukan dari kerajaan lain yang selama ini ditakutinya.</p><p>Sangat mungkin kegagalan dan kekecewaan yang selama ini dirasakan justru sebagian besar diakibatkan oleh diri kita sendiri, bukan karena keadaan, kesempatan yang tak pernah datang ataupun Tuhan yang tak pernah adil.</p><blockquote><p>Rasa malas,</p><p>Ketidak percayaan diri,</p><p>Enggan mengambil resiko,</p><p>Egoisme yang tinggi,</p><p>Tidak mencoba berempati,</p><p>Selalu mencari alasan,</p><p> dan banyak hal lain lagi&#8230;</p></blockquote><p>&#8220;Tapi bagaimana cara kita mengubahnya?&#8221; tanya salah satu suara dari ujung gelap sana.</p><p>Kita harus mencoba berkenalan dengan diri kita. This is the first step!</p><p>How come kita mau mengubah diri tapi kita tidak tahu seperti apa diri kita, sifat kita saat ini, hal buruk yang ada pada diri kita, kenapa kita memliki hal buruk tersebut, lalu solusi seperti apa yang cocok untuk diri kita.</p><p>There is no single bullet for everyone!</p><p>Solusinya akan sangat beragam, depends on ourself and how deep we know him.</p><p>So, let&#8217;s start by saying. &#8220;Hello, my self. How are you?&#8221;</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prototype vs MVP]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prototipe vs MVP (Minimum Viable Product) adalah dua konsep yang sangat sering digunakan dalam keseharian seorang Product Manager untuk mengembangkan atau mengupdate produk.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/prototype-vs-mvp</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/prototype-vs-mvp</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:54:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67b05660-2895-4ef8-b927-79942ff892d8_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Prototipe vs MVP (Minimum Viable Product) adalah dua konsep yang sangat sering digunakan dalam keseharian seorang Product Manager untuk mengembangkan atau mengupdate produk. Tapi apa kamu tau beda keduanya? Yuk kita bahas.</p><p>Prototype adalah versi awal dari suatu produk atau sistem yang dibuat untuk menguji ide dan konsep. Prototyping biasanya dilakukan sebelum memulai pengembangan produk atau sistem secara keseluruhan. Tujuan dari prototyping adalah untuk mengevaluasi dan menguji konsep secara cepat dan sederhana, serta mengidentifikasi kekurangan atau masalah yang mungkin terjadi sebelum produk atau sistem tersebut dikembangkan lebih lanjut. Prototyping bisa dilakukan dengan berbagai cara, seperti menggunakan kertas atau bahan lain untuk membuat model fisik, menggunakan perangkat lunak untuk membuat model digital, atau dengan membuat versi sederhana dari produk atau sistem yang akan dikembangkan.</p><p>MVP atau Minimum Viable Product adalah versi awal dari suatu produk atau sistem yang memiliki fitur yang cukup untuk melayani kebutuhan pengguna sambil terus mengembangkan fitur-fitur lainnya. MVP biasanya dibuat dengan tujuan untuk mendapatkan umpan balik dari pengguna atau pasar secepat mungkin, sehingga dapat dijadikan acuan dalam pengembangan produk atau sistem secara lebih lanjut. MVP memiliki fitur yang lebih lengkap dibandingkan prototype, karena MVP sudah mempertimbangkan kebutuhan pengguna dan memiliki fitur yang cukup untuk melayani kebutuhan tersebut. Namun, MVP masih bisa terus dikembangkan dengan menambahkan fitur-fitur tambahan atau menyempurnakan fitur yang sudah ada.</p><p>Jadi, prototype dan MVP memiliki tujuan yang sama yaitu untuk mengevaluasi dan menguji ide dan konsep suatu produk atau sistem, tetapi prototype biasanya lebih sederhana dan hanya menguji konsep secara umum, sedangkan MVP lebih terfokus pada fitur-fitur yang diperlukan untuk melayani kebutuhan pengguna. Kedua metode ini bisa digunakan secara bersamaan dalam proses pengembangan produk atau sistem, dengan menggunakan prototype untuk menguji ide dan konsep secara umum, dan MVP untuk menguji fitur-fitur yang diperlukan untuk melayani kebutuhan pengguna.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Product Management vs Project Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[Product Management dan Project Management adalah dua bidang yang berbeda dalam dunia bisnis, meskipun keduanya memiliki beberapa kemiripan.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/product-management-vs-project-management</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/product-management-vs-project-management</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:49:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9795bcd6-48b3-46a1-a309-785caa79a55b_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Product Management dan Project Management adalah dua bidang yang berbeda dalam dunia bisnis, meskipun keduanya memiliki beberapa kemiripan.</p><p>Product Management bertanggung jawab untuk mengelola seluruh aspek produk, mulai dari ide awal hingga peluncuran produk dan pemeliharaannya. Hal ini dilakukan dengan mengidentifikasi kebutuhan pelanggan, mengembangkan produk yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan tersebut, dan melakukan pengujian terhadap produk sebelum diluncurkan ke pasar. </p><p>Product Management juga bertanggung jawab untuk mengelola produk yang sudah ada, termasuk mengupdate produk sesuai dengan perkembangan pasar dan kebutuhan pelanggan. Ini termasuk menentukan tujuan pasar yang akan ditargetkan oleh produk, menentukan fitur yang akan disertakan dalam produk, dan mengelola anggaran dan sumber daya untuk mengembangkan produk tersebut.</p><p>Sementara itu, Project Management bertanggung jawab untuk mengelola proyek, yang merupakan suatu inisiatif terbatas yang memiliki tujuan yang jelas, anggaran yang terbatas, dan batas waktu yang terdefinisi. Project Management melibatkan perencanaan, koordinasi, dan pengawasan seluruh aspek proyek untuk memastikan bahwa proyek tersebut terselesaikan tepat waktu, dalam anggaran, dan sesuai dengan spesifikasi yang telah ditentukan.</p><p>Jadi, kedua jenis proses manajemen tersebut memiliki perbedaan yang cukup signifikan. Manajemen produk lebih fokus pada pengembangan produk yang unik dan berkualitas, sementara manajemen proyek lebih fokus pada pelaksanaan suatu proyek sesuai dengan rencana yang telah ditetapkan. Meskipun demikian, kedua jenis manajemen tersebut saling berkaitan dan membutuhkan satu sama lain dalam mencapai tujuan perusahaan.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[4 Type of Product Manager]]></title><description><![CDATA[Di era teknologi yang terus berkembang, ada berbagai jenis Product Manager yang dapat membantu sebuah perusahaan mencapai tujuannya.]]></description><link>https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/4-type-of-product-manager</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ariefgusti.com/p/4-type-of-product-manager</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arief Gusti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 04:45:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4091b6d5-8d53-4d9c-b030-8467a98f427b_1491x1048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Di era teknologi yang terus berkembang, ada berbagai jenis Product Manager yang dapat membantu sebuah perusahaan mencapai tujuannya. Berikut adalah empat jenis Product Manager yang umumnya ditemui:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Growth Product Manager</strong> </p><p>Growth Product Manager bertanggung jawab untuk meningkatkan jumlah pengguna atau pelanggan suatu produk. Hal ini dapat dilakukan dengan mengevaluasi dan mengoptimalkan strategi pemasaran, pengalaman pengguna, dan fitur produk untuk meningkatkan tingkat penjualan atau adopsi.<br></p></li><li><p><strong>Generalist Product Manager</strong> </p><p>Generalist Product Manager memiliki tanggung jawab yang lebih luas dibandingkan Growth Product Manager. Selain meningkatkan jumlah pengguna, mereka juga bertanggung jawab untuk mengelola keseluruhan produk, termasuk pengembangan, desain, dan pemasaran. Mereka harus memiliki pengetahuan yang luas tentang berbagai aspek produk dan dapat bekerja secara efektif dengan tim yang berbeda.<br></p></li><li><p><strong>Data Product Manager</strong> </p><p>Data Product Manager memiliki tanggung jawab untuk mengelola dan mengoptimalkan penggunaan data dalam produk. Mereka bekerja dengan tim data untuk mengumpulkan dan menganalisis data untuk memahami kebutuhan pengguna dan mengidentifikasi cara untuk meningkatkan produk. Data Product Manager juga bertanggung jawab untuk mengelola data yang dikumpulkan dari produk, termasuk mengatur dan mengawasi kebijakan privasi.<br></p></li><li><p><strong>AI Product Manager</strong> </p><p>AI Product Manager bertanggung jawab untuk mengelola dan mengoptimalkan penggunaan teknologi AI dalam produk. Mereka bekerja dengan tim AI untuk mengembangkan fitur baru yang menggunakan AI, serta mengevaluasi dan meningkatkan performa AI yang ada. AI Product Manager juga harus memahami kebijakan dan regulasi yang terkait dengan penggunaan AI, serta dapat menjelaskan kepada pengguna bagaimana AI digunakan dalam produk.</p></li></ol><p>Kesimpulannya, Product Manager memiliki berbagai jenis dan tanggung jawab yang berbeda, tergantung pada fokus produk dan strategi perusahaan. Namun, semuanya memiliki tujuan yang sama, yaitu untuk membantu perusahaan mencapai target yang sudah ditetapkan.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>