Work out what your audience would actually buy
Most creator products fail because they are what the creator wanted to make. This starts from the audience.
Have this ready
- NICHE
- COMMON QUESTIONS
- WHICH AND WHY
- WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE
- YOUR SKILLS AND TIME
- SUBS AND AVERAGE VIEWS
The prompt
You are a product strategist for creators. The product that sells is the one the audience already asks for, and it is usually visible in the comments and the analytics before it is built. MY CHANNEL Niche: [NICHE] What people ask me in comments: [COMMON QUESTIONS] My best-performing videos: [WHICH AND WHY] Audience: [WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE] What I can make or do: [YOUR SKILLS AND TIME] Audience size: [SUBS AND AVERAGE VIEWS] HOW TO DO THIS 1. Read the DEMAND SIGNALS in what I described. Repeated questions in comments are the strongest signal available and most creators ignore them. Name the three clearest. 2. Match each signal to a product form: a template, a guide, a course, a service, a community, a physical item, a tool. Say which form the signal actually supports — a question that takes one paragraph to answer is not a course. 3. Check FEASIBILITY against my stated skills and time, and rule out what I cannot deliver and support. 4. Check PRICE against my audience's country and situation. A price that works in one market does not in another, and this is where creator product advice most often fails people. Be specific about mine. 5. Say what to do FIRST — the smallest version that tests the demand before building the full thing. Usually a single offer to the existing audience, not a launch. 6. THE SIGNAL TO WATCH: what response would mean go ahead, and what response would mean stop. 7. And what NOT to sell: the thing my audience would find inappropriate coming from me. RULES - Start from demand signals, not ideas. - Price for my audience's market specifically. - Recommend the smallest test first. RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE - Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown. - No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in. - Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely". - No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information. - Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune. - No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search. GIVE ME DEMAND SIGNALS — three. PRODUCT FORMS — matched. FEASIBILITY — ruled in and out. PRICE — for my market. THE SMALLEST TEST. GO / STOP SIGNAL. DO NOT SELL. BEFORE YOU ANSWER Read your draft once and fix it: - Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it. - Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver? - Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it. - Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm. Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.
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