Y Combinator Startup Podcast

How To Better Understand Your Users

July 9, 2026·13 min·4-min readsolotechnology
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Founders often rely on aggregate metrics like DAUs or MAUs, which obscure how individual users actually engage with a product. The dot plot is a simple yet powerful visualization tool that reveals usage patterns, retention issues, and feature-level behaviors by mapping individual user act

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David Lieb

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