[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-vertical-product-rules-en":3,"blog-related-vertical-product-rules-en":29,"blog-adjacent-vertical-product-rules-en":60},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"excerpt":7,"content":8,"cover":9,"tone":10,"author":11,"publishedAt":12,"updatedAt":13,"readingMinutes":14,"featured":15,"tags":16,"category":19,"seoSettings":28},2,"vertical-product-rules","The Watershed for Vertical Products: Writing Industry Defaults into the System","Vertical is not a new industry label on a generic product. The real barrier is understanding and carrying the default rules that practitioners take for granted.","\u003Cp>We should build a vertical SaaS too has become one of the most common statements in recent years. What actually creates distance, however, is not renaming a generic product after an industry. It is whether the default rules of that industry can be written precisely into the product model.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>Industry defaults determine product shape\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Peak hours and table turnover in restaurants, inventory and shrinkage in retail, scheduling and lesson consumption in education, property viewings and registration in real estate — these rules are rarely written into requirement documents, yet practitioners follow them every day. A product that does not understand them can only compensate with heavy configuration and manual coordination.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>A restaurant system must know whether payment comes before preparation or after;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>A retail system must distinguish whether stock is deducted at order placement or at shipment;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>An education system must be able to explain how lesson hours are calculated after a leave request.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Ch2>Configuration is not understanding\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Many products sell flexibility as a feature. But if the configuration options themselves do not carry industry meaning, customers still need extensive training to use them. A genuinely usable vertical product ships with the industry's most common practice as the default, so customers only change the exceptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>Three criteria\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>Can frontline staff complete high-frequency operations without reading a manual;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Can exception flows be expressed inside the system instead of falling back to offline work;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Do data definitions match industry conventions so they can be used directly for reconciliation and review.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cblockquote>The barrier of a vertical product is not the number of features, but the depth of understanding of industry defaults.\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cp>When a product naturally carries these rules, customers do not feel they are getting another system. They feel this team understands how we do business.\u003C\u002Fp>","","indigo","佳益方圆团队","2026-10-09T10:00:00+08:00","2026-10-18T15:58:14.661+08:00",1,false,[17,18],"Industry Products","Product Design",{"id":4,"parentId":20,"slug":21,"name":22,"description":23,"icon":24,"cover":9,"tone":25,"kind":26,"sortOrder":27,"count":20},0,"product-thinking","Product Thinking","Requirement analysis, user experience and product design methods, plus the thinking from business problems to product solutions.","lightbulb","blue","article",50,{},[30,40,49],{"id":27,"slug":31,"title":32,"excerpt":33,"content":9,"cover":9,"tone":10,"author":11,"publishedAt":34,"updatedAt":34,"readingMinutes":14,"featured":15,"tags":35,"category":39},"grading-requirement-confidence","Grading the Confidence Behind Requirements","Treating requirements as facts is the most common cause of delay. Requirements differ in how reliable they are.","2026-10-15T09:00:00+08:00",[36,37,38],"Requirements","Product","Risk",{"id":4,"parentId":20,"slug":21,"name":22,"description":23,"icon":24,"cover":9,"tone":25,"kind":26,"sortOrder":27,"count":20},{"id":41,"slug":42,"title":43,"excerpt":44,"content":9,"cover":9,"tone":25,"author":11,"publishedAt":45,"updatedAt":45,"readingMinutes":14,"featured":15,"tags":46,"category":48},51,"mvp-boundary","Drawing the Boundary of an MVP","Minimum viable is not the fewest features; it is one complete business loop running end to end.","2026-10-03T10:13:00+08:00",[47,37,36],"MVP",{"id":4,"parentId":20,"slug":21,"name":22,"description":23,"icon":24,"cover":9,"tone":25,"kind":26,"sortOrder":27,"count":20},{"id":50,"slug":51,"title":52,"excerpt":53,"content":9,"cover":9,"tone":54,"author":11,"publishedAt":55,"updatedAt":55,"readingMinutes":14,"featured":15,"tags":56,"category":59},52,"user-interview-questions","Three Questions Worth Asking in User Interviews","Asking what people want yields imagination; asking what they did last time yields facts.","teal","2026-09-21T11:26:00+08:00",[57,58,37],"Research","Interviews",{"id":4,"parentId":20,"slug":21,"name":22,"description":23,"icon":24,"cover":9,"tone":25,"kind":26,"sortOrder":27,"count":20},{"previous":61,"next":78},{"id":62,"slug":63,"title":64,"excerpt":65,"content":9,"cover":9,"tone":25,"author":11,"publishedAt":66,"updatedAt":66,"readingMinutes":14,"featured":15,"tags":67,"category":71},89,"thirty-minute-weekly","The Thirty-Minute Weekly Share","No new technology, no industry trends. Just the pitfalls of the week and how they were solved.","2026-10-11T09:00:00+08:00",[68,69,70],"Team Culture","Knowledge Sharing","Growth",{"id":72,"parentId":20,"slug":73,"name":74,"description":75,"icon":76,"cover":9,"tone":25,"kind":26,"sortOrder":77,"count":20},4,"team-culture","Team and Culture","Company events, tech sharing, team building and hiring culture that show the daily life of the Jiayifangyuan team.","users",30,{"id":79,"slug":80,"title":81,"excerpt":82,"content":9,"cover":9,"tone":83,"author":11,"publishedAt":84,"updatedAt":84,"readingMinutes":14,"featured":15,"tags":85,"category":89},108,"gansu-manufacturing-digitalization","Three Observations on Manufacturing Digitalisation in Gansu","After visiting a dozen local manufacturers, digitalisation is less about buying software than filling foundations.","slate","2026-10-09T09:00:00+08:00",[86,87,88],"Industry Watch","Manufacturing","Digitalisation",{"id":90,"parentId":20,"slug":91,"name":86,"description":92,"icon":93,"cover":9,"tone":25,"kind":26,"sortOrder":94,"count":20},5,"industry-watch","In-depth analysis of internet, software and digital industry trends with our own point of view.","globe",20]