Links tagged “product”

weli.dev

A startup that kept promising features to close sales instead of fixing the product, and lost its flagship customer and its engineers.

mindtheproduct.com

How prompt engineering is teaching us to communicate like product leaders

hbr.org

The Right Way to Sunset a Project

uxplanet.org

Lessons from Launching and Growing a Freight Transportation Platform: insights from five years as the first full-time employee at a freight transportation company.

hbr.org

Using Gen AI for Early-Stage Market Research: use genai as a tool to simulate customer feedback during product development stages, providing fast cost-effective results.

briancasel.com

Personal site of Brian Casel, gathering a newsletter, a podcast and a blog on bootstrapping software businesses and productised services.

mindtheproduct.com

A product management community publishing articles, podcasts, training and conference talks.

stackingthebricks.com

Articles, podcast episodes, videos and courses on shipping products and building a small profitable business.

martinfowler.com

Argues for funding software as long-lived product teams owning a business problem, rather than as temporary projects with a predefined scope.

firstround.com

Fidji Simo's practices for keeping product work tied to intent — weekly reflection blocks, quarterly calendar audits and staffing checks against stated priorities.

ucdc.therectangles.com

A nine-field canvas, in the lineage of the Business Model Canvas, mapping user problems, motives and fears against business goals to reach a value proposition.

firstround.com

Looker founder Lloyd Tabb on trading vanity metrics for clarity metrics — the few numbers that actually predict customer behaviour.

firstround.com

Todd Jackson's framework for hiring product managers: the qualities to look for, the candidate profiles worth considering, and the interview questions that surface them.

firstround.com

Noah Weiss of Slack on designing and timing mobile push notifications so they stay useful instead of eroding user trust.

elev.io

A customer support platform that surfaces contextual help and knowledge-base articles inside a web app so users can serve themselves.

sixteenventures.com

Argues that a SaaS pricing table should run from the highest plan on the left to the lowest on the right, and explains the anchoring effect behind it.