The cache as a product category
The cache as a product is a product category of its own.
Product ideas can be deceptively simple.
The cache as a product stores a finished good of something and makes it instantly available with the press of a single button or a single click.
Example 1: Quooker
For example this is a quooker. It gives you hot boiling water at the press of a single button with of course of safety mechanisms built in. This is a great example of a cash as a product. Replace the hot water boiler. I find it funny because we have one in my office and I do notice that I’ve actually drink more tea because of it.
Example 2: Hot water dispenser
The previous example was actually a fairly new fairly Westernize version of the hot water dispenser you can find anywhere in Asia. It’s the same thing you get hot water at the click of a button.
Example 3: Archive.ph (cached web pages)
Then there are different websites for example where you can archive webpage and then look at the archive version later. This is quite literally a webpage cache as a product.
Why this works
So I found a product value framework laying somewhere around that it had to follow shape: We want to achieve an outcome times a certain likelihood over the time delay we get it time to effort we need to expend ourselves.
( Outcome x Likelihood ) / (Time delay x Effort) = Value
In this framework the cache as a product effectively makes the denominator (bottom of the equation) zero. It provides value by making making it instant (time delay = 0) and at the push of a button (effort = 0).
What other things can you now do instantly with the click of a button?
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