







Last week was difficult.


Highlights From Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A Session on Product Hunt
On September 22nd, Matt Mullenweg participated in a question and answer session on Product Hunt. Product Hunt is a site that lets users share and discover new products. In the session, Mullenweg an…

Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
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.

Build the thing you wish to see in the world
For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of the best things we build are the ones we build just because we want them to exist.

The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

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.]
Minimum Standards of Product Development
Fostering collaboration and continuous innovation

The one product feature that tripled our sales last month
Here’s how the tiniest Know Your Company feature that took 20 minutes to code led to the biggest impact on our business… Even the smallest lever can have a big impact.A few months ago, we moved Kno…
Feature / Product / Business: A Framework for Sustainable ATProto Projects | ATmosphereConf VODs
The ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year! For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses. In this talk, you'll get a practical framework for understanding whether what you're building should be a feature, product, or business, plus concrete funding models at each layer to keep your work going and growing. (More in this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/mosh.bsky.social/post/3mckiat2ne22q)


Parker Conrad says founders have been building software wrong for the last 20 years | TechCrunch
Parker Conrad is bearish on one-feature startups and thinks that companies that build horizontal tech will win.

Bob Moesta - Jobs-to-be-Done Find Out the Why!
Features-as-Plugins First Transitions Into Features-as-Projects
Last year, I identified key factors that suggested the features-as-plugins first model was falling apart. A lack of communication, direction, buy-in from core developers, and synchronized developme…
