continuous-discovery
Help users build a sustainable habit of regular customer interaction to ensure product development is driven by real-world needs rather than internal assumptions.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill continuous-discovery --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Continuous Product Discovery Turn customer feedback from a periodic chore into a high-frequency engine for product decisions. Help the user with continuous product discovery using insights from 23 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. ## How to Help 1. **Audit current proximity** - Evaluate the frequency and quality of direct team-to-user interactions and identify existing gatekeepers. 2. **Define discovery rituals** - Help set up recurring cadences for interviews, demo days, and support shifts that involve the entire product trio. 3. **Structure the opportunity space** - Guide the translation of raw feedback into a visual map of unmet needs, pain points, and desires. 4. **Accelerate evidence gathering** - Recommend lightweight methods for testing assumptions through prototypes and behavior mapping before committing to full builds. ## Core Principles ### Distinguish needs from solutions Teresa Torres: "I can tell you that opportunity is an unmet need pain point or desire, and that's great. But I can tell you that 98% of people that write opportunities write them as solutions. So we tend to just really struggle with this distinction between the problem space and
- How to Help
- Core Principles
- Distinguish needs from solutions
- Remove layers between builders and users
- Integrate discovery into execution
- Prioritize high-signal informal contact
- Maintain research as a continuous partner
- Identify friction through direct observation
- Embed technical staff in customer workspaces
- Templates & Frameworks
- Questions to Help Users
- Common Mistakes to Flag
- Deep Dive
- Related Skills
What does the continuous-discovery skill do?
Help users build a sustainable habit of regular customer interaction to ensure product development is driven by real-world needs rather than internal assumptions.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill continuous-discovery --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From RefoundAI/lenny-skills, a repository with 1,215 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.