12-25-2025, 04:44 AM
I'm a product manager at an early-stage SaaS startup, and we're struggling to determine if we've truly achieved product market fit or if we're just experiencing a temporary spike from our latest marketing campaign. Our user growth is decent, but retention after the first 90 days is lower than we'd like, and we're getting mixed signals from customer interviews. For founders and PMs who have navigated this ambiguous phase, what specific metrics and qualitative signals did you rely on to confidently declare product market fit? How did you differentiate between needing more iterations on the core product versus needing to improve onboarding and activation? We're debating whether to double down on our current feature set or pivot slightly based on user feedback.