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Open Product Foundation: Tools, Checklists, and Templates to Launch Products Right.

With Templates, Examples and Deep Dive!

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What is OPF

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Open Product Foundation

Open Product Foundation is a nonprofit offering free, open-source tools to help teams build better products. We provide clear checklists and frameworks that guide product from idea to launch.

Everything is community-built and ready to use.

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Our Mission

Create an open community of product professionals with shared tools for the full lifecycle

Our Vision

Empower individuals and organizations to achieve product excellence through accessible and collaborative frameworks.

Our Strategy

  • Foster a no-membership-fee community

  • Provide best practices openly

  • Support all domains of product building: Business, Tech, Design, PM, GTM

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The Open Product Foundation is just getting started, and we invite you to join us in building the future of open product development

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Together, we can create a world where every product team has access to the tools and knowledge they need to build exceptional products.

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OUR STORY

​The Open Product Foundation began when we recognized a critical gap in the product development ecosystem. While successful companies had developed effective frameworks and processes internally, this valuable knowledge remained inaccessible to many product teams worldwide.​

 

We saw that product excellence wasn't being democratized: the frameworks, checklists, and best practices that led to successful products were often trapped within large organizations or behind expensive paywalls.

 

Smaller teams, startups, and individual product managers were being left behind, forced to reinvent processes or learn through costly trial and error.​Drawing from our collective experience across various product-driven organizations, we decided to create an open resource that would make proven product development methodologies accessible to everyone.

 

Our goal was simple but ambitious: to create a shared foundation that any product team could adopt, adapt, and build upon.​What began as a collection of resources has evolved into a comprehensive product development toolkit and a growing community of passionate product professionals committed to democratizing product excellence.

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