Notes from our product team on building the tools we use every day.
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.
Lecture 16 - How to Run a User Interview (Emmett Shear)
WRKSHP.tools | Job Map Canvas
Thinking about what your customer is trying to achieve as a way to define your value proposition just makes a lot of sense, instinctively. But how do you actually define that elusive Job to be Done? The Job Map Canvas can help!
Linear – The system for product development
Purpose-built for planning and building products with AI agents.
Making 20% Time Work | begriffs.com
Following Google’s lead many companies have instituted “20% time” for their employees. This is one day per week in which employees can work on projects of their own choosing. The practice keeps developers motivated and sharp, produces tools to solve company problems, and in the best case creates open source which builds prestige and helps recruitment.
I am often wrong
[I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product in the age of AI.]
Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)
Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…
DesignABetterBusiness.tools | Tool Overview
Search and download all of the tools from the book Design A Better Business
Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing
Sometimes deliberate roadblocks can be a good thing to get more efficient and effective products and workflow. Here's how.
Evolving and explaining how we run our company
As we write in “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work”, you should treat your company as a product too. To improve a product, you listen, learn, (re)consider, concept, and iterate. …
How to build a roadmap in 3½ steps | HackerNoon
<em>When done right, the product roadmap reduces uncertainty about the future and keeps product teams focused on the highest priority product initiatives. But how to build it effectively?</em>
Someone behind the software
I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.
Building personal tools by programming
Open Sourcing our Company Handbook: read on to know why
In this post we’re explaining the reasons we decided to open s...
How to Build Product Features Customers Actually Use
Build features that drive adoption, not backlog. A process for turning customer feedback into product features that move retention and growth.
Issue tracking is dead – Linear
The next era of product development is built on context and agency. Here's how Linear is evolving. And what we're launching today.
