Three questions any founders should be able to answer
Stress test your product-market fit with these three simple questions
How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them
People spend too much time writing software relative to speaking to potential customers, prior to launching and after it. Reversing that is a win.
Software Bonkers
I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.
Value Pairs: A New Way of Approaching Product Development
How AI-enabled teams can change how we think about product development
Customer Discovery: in 4 steps from Idea to Validated Product [Guide] - Gust de Backer
You have an idea for a business. But... You don't want to build a business based on assumptions. Instead, you want to build a business based on validated assumptions so you're not just going to throw money away. I'm going to explain to you how the Customer Discovery phase of the Customer Development Process can be used to validate your…
Paths to business value in Developer Relations
DevRel is not content creation, but centred on helping developers solve problems and build better software through building real apps with real users.
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...
The Four Big Risks | Silicon Valley Product Group
In the first edition of my book, INSPIRED, I discussed how successful products are valuable, usable and feasible, where I defined “valuable” as both valuable to customers and valuable to your business. While it’s easy to remember these three attributes, over the years I’ve come to believe that it was obscuring some pretty serious risks and...
Building what customers need, not just what they ask for - Linear
Notes from our product team on building the tools we use every day.
V_labs 4 Phases: Explore
The explore phase uncovers concrete venture opportunities by analyzing markets, customer needs, trends, and corporate capabilities for validation.
Corporations Reeling From Huge AI Costs With No Clear Benefits
Costs to access powerful AI tools are soaring, forcing company leaders to ask some difficult questions about the actual benefits.
values based software talks
Talk #3 Files, algorithms, media, software as lived practice, and personal software
Ten FOSS Development Fallacies For User Facing Software
This is a list, inspired by the Five Geek Social Fallacies, of common patterns or behaviours that developers of free/open source software (FOSS) fall into when they try to develop software for users who are not technical, or for whom non-technical users would be the most obvious userbase. Hopefully writing these down (which frankly is cathartic more than anything) is helpful to some in recognising these thought patterns and avoiding them when developing software - I’ve got some of my own thoughts on this at the bottom.
The rise of industrial software | Chris Loy
> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.
Perfect Software - Software for an Audience of One
We have many names to describe personal tools. Malleable software speaks to how it behaves. Home-cooked software speaks to who makes it.
V_labs 4 Phases: Validate
In venture building, validation is key. We test hypotheses and prototype business ideas to ensure successful market fit and growth.
