product-taste
Help users build a professional eye for quality, articulate the reasoning behind successful product paradigms, and develop the conviction to make high-stakes decisions before data is available.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill product-taste --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.
# Product Taste and Intuition Develop a reliable internal compass to recognize and build world-class products. Help the user with product taste and intuition using insights from 35 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. ## How to Help 1. **Deconstruct experiences** - Guide the user through analyzing specific product details to identify why they evoke certain emotional responses. 2. **Calibrate intuition** - Help the user document and review their decision rationales against real-world outcomes to refine their judgment. 3. **Challenge assumptions** - Use first-principles thinking to question standard industry metrics and focus on core user utility. 4. **Refine the feel** - Assist in articulating the specific polish, speed, and usability elements that contribute to a high-quality product feel. ## Core Principles ### Learn Through Model Primitives Howie Liu: "I think to really understand the solution space of what's possible, you have to be in the details. I mean, literally, you can't just look at screenshots or a pre-recorded video of a new product feature. AI is something you have to play with, and ideally you're playing with both the packaged up app or solution tha
- How to Help
- Core Principles
- Learn Through Model Primitives
- Articulate Emotional Responses
- Design for Human Emotion
- Actively Falsify Assumptions
- Quality as a Growth Strategy
- Iterate via Internal Usage
- Templates & Frameworks
- Questions to Help Users
- Common Mistakes to Flag
- Deep Dive
- Related Skills
What does the product-taste skill do?
Help users build a professional eye for quality, articulate the reasoning behind successful product paradigms, and develop the conviction to make high-stakes decisions before data is available.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill product-taste --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.