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product development
- MVPs with Cursor
Good stuff here on building with Cursor. Some takeaways: Use starter kits to bootstrap project directories Build assistive docs to help the Agent. Remember that the Agent behaves a lot like a human: - A human with min…
- We Did All This Discovery, Now How Do We Decide?
When capturing hundreds of problems during product discovery, we generate at least as many potential solutions. We can't build everything at once, so how do we decide what to tackle first? Ryan Singer has a suggestion…
- Product-led Growth Isn't Incompatible with Sales
Product-led growth has been booming in the B2B software universe, becoming the fashionable way to approach go-to-market in SaaS. I'm a believer in the philosophy, as we've seen companies grow to immense scales and val…
- A Nomenclature for Low-Code Users
The low-code "market" isn't really a market. Rather, I see it as an attribute of a software product, an implementation factor in how a product works. A product providing low-code capability says nothing about its inte…
- Weekend Reading: Product Market Fit, Stripe's 5th Hub, and Downlink
🦸🏽‍♂️ How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit As pointed out in this piece from Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman, most indicators around product-market fit are lagging indicators. With his compan…
- New Things In New Ways, or Same Old Things In Old Ways?
This latest piece from Steven Sinofsky considers product strategy on 2 axes: What problem is being solved and How it is solved The spectrum he paints here runs from the most conservative (old things in old ways, "incr…
- Weekend Reading: Shanghai, Basecamp, and DocuSaurus
🇨🇳 195-Gigapixel Photo of Shanghai Shot from the Oriental Pearl Tower, the picture shows enormous levels of detail composited from 8,700 source photos. Imagine this capability available commercially from microsatell…
- A Product Origin Story
Fulcrum, our SaaS product for field data collection, is coming up on its 7th birthday this year. We’ve come a long way: from a bootstrapped, barely-functional system at launch in 2011 to a platform with over 1,800 cus…
- Recent Links: Mapping Air Quality, the Problem with Agile, Indie Jazz
⏱ Mapping Street-Level Air Quality in California This is amazing work by Google putting air quality sensors on their Street View cars to collect air quality data. The resolution of this is amazing — to see how drastic…
- We Need Product Storytellers
A great article from UXMAG making the case for "product storytellers" on product teams, instead of more marketing or product management. A must-read for creators trying to bring products to market. This statement gets…
- OSM in Commercial Products
OpenStreetMap has become an undeniably powerful open data resource for industry to start taking advantage of. I gave this talk at State of the Map 2011 in Denver to show some of the things our company is doing leverag…