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Plan Customer Problem Interviews

Learn what people already do before designing your side hustle around guesses.

Recipe note

When to use this

people testing a small, realistic income idea with care — especially for “Plan Customer Problem Interviews”.

Prepare your context

What to paste in

  • AUDIENCE
  • PROBLEM
  • NUMBER
The full recipe

The prompt

Create a 20-minute discovery interview for people in [AUDIENCE] about [PROBLEM]. Include a warm opening, 10 behavior-based questions, follow-ups that uncover current spending and workarounds, questions to avoid, and a simple way to compare patterns across [NUMBER] interviews. Keep the conversation exploratory rather than pitching my idea.
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How to adapt it

  • Replace the bracketed placeholders with your real audience, problem, number before you run it.
  • Keep the requested structure and constraints; adjust the tone for your selling context.
  • Review the first answer against your own facts, then ask for a second pass on anything that feels vague or unsupported.

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