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Product-market fit survey template

Measure product-market fit with the 'how disappointed would you be' question, then a different follow-up for each answer, plus alternatives and where it falls short.

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Product-market fit survey

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How often do you use the product?

A few questions about how you use us. Honest answers help most, including critical ones.

How often do you use the product?

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What's inside

Every question, and where it leads

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The conversation

What a respondent is asked, in order.

A few questions about how you use us. Honest answers help most, including critical ones.

1

How often do you use the product?

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2

How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?

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3

What's the main benefit you get from it?

Long textrequiredif disappointment is Very disappointed
4

What type of person do you think would benefit most from it?

Long textrequiredif disappointment is Very disappointed
5

What would have to be true for you to be very disappointed without it?

Long textrequiredif disappointment is Somewhat disappointed
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What stops it being useful to you?

Long textoptionalif disappointment is Not disappointed
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If it disappeared tomorrow, what would you use instead?

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Where does it still fall short for you?

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What best describes your role?

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How big is the team you work in?

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The flow

Where each answer leads. Every route here is editable once the form is yours.

A labelled route is taken only by answers matching the label

A little guidance

Make the most of your next ask.

Questions to consider for your product-market fit survey

  • Who should get this: everyone, or only people who have used the product recently and more than once?
  • Which roles and team sizes do you suspect love you most, and are they in the options?
  • Will you run it again after a big release, so you can compare the very disappointed share over time?
  • What will you do with the answers from people who are not disappointed?

How to use the responses

Work out what share of people chose very disappointed, then filter to just that group. Read their main benefit answers for the words to use in your marketing, and check their role and team size to see who your core audience really is. The somewhat disappointed answers are your roadmap: what's missing for them is what stands between you and more fans.

How to customize and share this template

  1. 1Replace 'this product' with your product's name in the disappointment and benefit questions.
  2. 2Update the role and team size options to match the audiences you sell to.
  3. 3Send it to active users, then export to CSV and filter by the disappointment answer to compare the three groups.

Frequently asked questions

How do you measure product-market fit with a survey?

Ask users how they would feel if they could no longer use the product. The share who say very disappointed is the headline number, and what that group says about the benefit tells you why.

What is a good product-market fit score?

Sean Ellis, who popularised the question, suggested that around 40 percent of users answering very disappointed is a sign of fit. Treat it as one signal alongside retention and usage.

Who should answer a product-market fit survey?

People who have used the product enough to judge it. Surveying sign-ups who never got started will pull the score down without telling you much.

Why does each answer get different follow-up questions?

Each group tells you something different. Fans explain the value, the somewhat disappointed explain the gap, and the rest explain why it isn't for them, so asking everyone the same thing wastes their time.

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