Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane.
I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor. Better features, better positioning, better everything. I told it to be ruthless.
It did!
The output was polished. Confident. Structured like a real go-to-market plan. It named features we don t have. It positioned itself against us. It looked like a threat on paper.
I've spent 30 years in product. Built and launched close to 115 products for companies like Sony Music and Zee Entertainment where I worked, for my own company and for companies that I consulted.
The most common pattern I've seen kill good products isn't bad strategy. It's decisions made with false confidence where the data looked complete but wasn't, and nobody said so out loud.
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I control every 1 hr of my day to maximize productivity. Wake up at 5:30, meditate, work, learn programming, work some more, write a novel, and run a family with 1 kid coming. You could say I'm hyper productive, but I know many of you have a lot more on your plate. As founders and makers, what do you do to make sure your sanity is kept in check?
It's Thanksgiving week and as we all reminisce on what we are thankful for this year I thought it would be fun to include products in the mix. What products are you thankful for?
Today I launched #32 on PH and was thinking back to the first software product I made. It was a simple .exe popup I sent to a few friends...they had to type 'Andrew is awesome' before it would go away I was so pleased...
I see it more as complimentary to a number of roles such as marketing etc, and it taking a more prominent roles in industries such as lab work, research, driving.
Honestly, the distractions around the house are my biggest nightmare while working from home. Even though I am a remote worker, I try to go out and work in coffee shops, and libraries as much as possible so that I am much more disciplined. What about you?
The business of a startup company will change frequently, but the number of developers is often small, and it is difficult to cope with heavy business requirements.
Can anyone recommend some good low-code & no-code tools? And what scenarios do they apply to? Provide some practical examples:
1. appsmith(https://www.appsmith.com/). Open-Source, and provides good customization capabilities and interface display.
2. Retool(https://retool.com/). Similar to appsmith.
3.Dots(https://www.dots.community/). Build bots on Discord & Slack.
4. Webflow(https://webflow.com/). All-in-one web design platform.
5. ...
Meta has launched Threads an alternative to Twitter. Have you signed up for Threads? What do you think, does it live up to its Hype? Feel free to share your Threads Profile here. Let s Follow each other
I've had a wild ride of a career, from founding multiple products (some of which are ) to working with celebrities in the alcohol industry, to working on $26 billion worth of M&A deals, plus I've won awards for my comedy writing. Also, I like to meditate, burn sage, and collect crystals. Here to answer any and all questions about SaaS, content marketing, remote work, document apps, product, transitioning from corporate to startups, writing, selecting crystals, the future, and me
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