“Step three is — you want to borrow a proven add-on or pattern from a more established platform. For me that was obviously Google Sheets and Airtable. And borrow all the UX from that, as well as making it feel native.”

Port a proven add-on pattern from a mature platform to a younger growing one

The cleanest shortcut is finding a successful add-on on a mature platform and porting its pattern to a newer, growing one. Price points, UX, and demand transfer over wholesale, leaving only execution risk to absorb.