Product design question

Make a product to help people buy and sell homes.

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Product sense for a two-sided, high-stakes, low-frequency marketplace.

Clarify buy-side or sell-side focus, and whether this sits inside an existing platform or stands alone.
Pick a segment, e.g. first-time buyers who feel overwhelmed by the process.
Identify pain points: trust in listings, understanding neighborhood value, coordinating viewings.
Propose features like verified listing badges, price-history transparency, and scheduling tools.
Prioritize trust and verification first, since fraud is the top home-buying fear.
Define a success metric, e.g. percent of inquiries that convert to a scheduled viewing.

Chooses a specific user (first-time buyer, or a casual seller) rather than 'people'.
Names the marketplace's cold-start tension: too few sellers means buyers churn, and addresses which side to seed first.
Gives a concrete trust feature, e.g. ID-verified sellers or agent reviews, since home transactions are high fraud risk.
Picks a funnel metric (inquiry-to-viewing rate) over a vanity metric like page views.

Designing generic listing and search features without addressing trust, the core home-buying anxiety.
Not acknowledging the marketplace's chicken-and-egg supply problem.

Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.