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Ideas, frameworks, and lessons from 18 years of building products. Not theory. Things I've learned by doing it.
AI
I shipped four products in the past year. tini.bio, lst.so, gratu, nod.so. All of them built with AI writing most of the code. Claude Code handles my …
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Design
I’ve seen six Lovable prototypes this month. All of them worked. None of them felt like products. And that gap, between working and feeling like …
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AI
In the last two weeks I’ve had a handful of conversations with founders. Different industries, different stages, different products. But the …
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AI
You built it in a weekend. Cursor, Bolt, v0, maybe Replit. It runs on your laptop, it looks good in a demo, and investors leaned in when you showed …
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Software
I spent 18 years estimating how long products take to build. Story points. T-shirt sizing. Sprint planning. Quarterly roadmaps. Gantt charts that …
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Entrepreneurship
Every founder I talk to has the same gap in their operation. They know their market. They can sell. They can raise. They can build relationships and …
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Entrepreneurship
Every startup blog will tell you the same thing: validate before you build. Do 20 customer interviews. Run surveys. Create a landing page. Collect …
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Software
For 20 years, building a software product meant the same thing. Hire a team. Write a spec. Sit through standups. Wait months. Spend six figures. Hope …
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Software
I shipped five products recently. All within about six weeks. Different stacks, different users, totally different problems. Two of them are already …
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Software
The hardest part of product isn’t deciding what to build. It’s deciding what not to build. When your biggest customer threatens to churn …
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Software
A 5-person team in 2026 can ship what a 50-person team shipped in 2016. AI has compressed the development curve dramatically. The question every …
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Software
Most AI products fail twice: once when the technology doesn’t work, and again when nobody wants it anyway. Traditional validation focuses on …
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Software
Everything you learned about product management is wrong for AI products. Roadmaps? Useless when underlying capabilities change every few weeks. …
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Software
Your startup doesn’t have an AI problem. It has a product problem that might be solved with AI. This distinction is everything. Get it wrong, …
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Software
The best product strategy isn’t a list of features to build. It’s a clear answer to one question: what change are you creating in your …
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AI
The main reason AI projects fail is simple: companies start with the technology instead of the problem. 42% of companies scrapped their AI initiatives …
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Software
The fastest way to build a lean MVP is to build the smallest experiment that tests your riskiest assumption—not a scaled-down version of your vision. …
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AI
The fastest way to ship AI products is with a pod—a small, complete team that owns outcomes—not traditional hiring. A 3-4 person pod (ML engineer + …
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Software
Your first product hire should complement your weaknesses, not duplicate your strengths. If you’re a technical founder, hire a product designer …
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Design
Dribbble broke UX design by rewarding beautiful screenshots over functional user experiences. The platform created a generation of …
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Thoughts
Trusth those who have walked the path, not those who sell you hard on a promise.
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Productivity
When was the last time you were productive for 8 hours a day sitting in front of your computer?
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Software
Having “on-time” as your team’s (or project) success metric is a dangerous endeavor.
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Software
For over 12 years I’ve worked with SaaS product teams. Many have been successful in launching and generating revenue, others failed to ship. It …
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Entrepreneurship
The best competitive strategy is to ignore your competitors and obsess over your customers instead. After 18 years and 5 startups, I’ve watched …
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