Why Your Product Is So Hard to Explain

The Stacks Product Manager

Astera seeks a Product Manager to build The Stacks, an open-access platform for sharing scientific knowledge. Join us to lead innovation at the intersection of science and technology.

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)

Discover stories and stacks behind your favorite apps

DIscover what makes your favorite apps so special - from their origin story to their tech stacks and the tools their teams rely on daily. Build smarter by learning from the best.

How small can ATproto get, really? - Unfolding Diagrams

Does an independent Bluesky stack really cost thousands?

How small can ATproto get, really? - Unfolding Diagrams

Does an independent Bluesky stack really cost thousands?

How small can ATproto get, really? - Unfolding Diagrams

Does an independent Bluesky stack really cost thousands?

How small can ATproto get, really? - Unfolding Diagrams

Does an independent Bluesky stack really cost thousands?

WRKSHP.tools | Product Box

The Product Box exercise helps you when you need to convert an abstract concept into something tangible that you can evaluate with people that were not intimately part of the design process.

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...

Capital Stack | Real Estate Investment Structure

Capital Stack is the structure of financing sources used to fund a real estate investment, such as a commercial property acquisition.

There Are Actually Just Three Ways To Grow

Most brands obsess over distribution when the real growth comes from moves marketers can’t make alone

Opportunity Solution Tree: A Visual Tool for Product Discovery

Learn how to use the Opportunity Solution Tree framework to create products customers crave and generate more revenue.

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.

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement

A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.