| name | duo-product |
| description | Make product decisions the way Duolingo does โ long-view over short-term, ruthless prioritization, ship-and-learn over plan-and-ship, dogfooding, and the "intuitive by default" quality bar. Use when the user is roadmapping, deciding what to cut, debating whether to ship, defining a quality bar for a feature, or trying to install a "product-led" culture in a team that defaults to feature factories. Source the Duolingo Handbook principles 1, 2, and 3 (Take the Long View, Raise the Bar, Ship It). |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"author":"HKTITAN","version":"1.0.0","graph":true} |
Duolingo Product โ Map of Content
Three of the five handbook principles describe how Duolingo decides what to build and what good looks like. This skill collects the decision rules so a small team can borrow the operating system without copying the product.
This skill is structured as a graph: scan the descriptions below, follow only the [[wikilinks]] you need.
The three decision lenses
- [[references/take-the-long-view]] โ Principle #1: if it helps short-term but hurts long-term, it's not right.
- [[references/raise-the-bar]] โ Principle #2: every feature must be intuitive, delightful, useful, and polished.
- [[references/ship-it]] โ Principle #3: clock-speed, ruthless prioritization, kill what isn't working.
Long-view applied
- [[references/hundred-year-brand]] โ the asset class the long view is investing in.
- [[references/intuitive-by-default]] โ products shouldn't have to explain themselves.
Bar-raising applied
- [[references/dogfooding]] โ using the product daily as a quality forcing function.
- [[references/polish]] โ what "polished" actually means in review, with concrete tests.
- [[references/ownership-clarity]] โ every critical task has one owner; ambiguous ownership is the bug.
Ship-it applied
- [[references/ruthless-prioritization]] โ how to cut, not how to fit more in.
- [[references/kill-criteria-product]] โ the rules for stopping a project, not just an experiment.
Sibling skills
- [[../duo-retention/SKILL]] โ the long view is a retention bet; nodes interlock.
- [[../duo-experimentation/SKILL]] โ Ship It runs on the Show Don't Tell protocol.
- [[../duo-culture/SKILL]] โ Raise the Bar is a hiring problem before it's a product problem.
Sources
- Duolingo Handbook (2025), Principles #1โ3
