Product design question

Should Meta design a product for pet owners? If yes, please describe the product and outline how you would approach the design.

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What this question tests

Strategic product decision-making for a new user segment, checking whether you weigh market size and platform fit before jumping to feature design.

Clarify the strategic question first: should Meta build for pet owners at all, before designing what the product looks like.
Assess market size and engagement signal: pet-related content, like pet Pages and Groups, already generates high organic engagement on Facebook, a useful existing signal.
Weigh the opportunity: pet owners represent a large, emotionally invested audience with real commerce potential, like pet supplies and veterinary services advertising.
Recommend a qualified yes, scoped to enhancing existing Groups and Marketplace behavior rather than a standalone new app, given the existing engagement signal.
Design the approach: a pet-specific profile layer within Groups, enabling local pet owner connections, lost-pet alerts, and curated pet-related shopping through Marketplace.
Define success as increased engagement within pet-related Groups and ad revenue from pet-adjacent commerce categories.

Answers the strategic question first using an existing engagement signal, pet Groups and Pages, rather than jumping straight into feature brainstorming.
Recommends building on existing infrastructure, Groups and Marketplace, rather than proposing a costly standalone app for a single interest vertical.
Ties success to a commerce-relevant metric, ad revenue from pet-adjacent categories, connecting the feature to real business value.

Jumping straight to feature design without first answering whether this vertical is even strategically worth Meta's investment.
Proposing a standalone app for a single interest category, which is a larger investment than the market opportunity likely justifies.

How would you validate the market size for this before committing engineering resources?
How would this compete with dedicated pet-owner apps and communities already in the market?