I was having an interesting discussion on growth yesterday with a friend and he said something that really resonated with me:<p>"Growth hacks are catalysts, not determinants. If your product sucks, they won't help. Users will just churn out, or worse, never even come back. If you build a product users <i>love</i> however, they will work like a charm."<p>Then the discussion turned to what defines <i>loving</i> a product. And we agreed a good proxy was when a user wants to pay for it.<p>So I ask the HN community - what apps/software do you love so much that you're currently paying for them? Or <i>would</i> pay for them if they existed?
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