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Competitors obsession

  Healthy competition is a good thing. It drives innovation and brings benefits to customers. However, at times a product team might get obsessed with their competitors which leads them astray.
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Platform Product Manager

  What is the difference between platform PM and any other? Is there a difference? Do platforms even need PMs, and how many?

Why am I not launching Advantage Scout

  Everyone who has ever tried to create a product has their embarrassing failure story. Here's one of mine.

Clarify your position

  I used to love football! Watch it, play it, suffer from chronic underperformance of my fantasy team... It's during one of the games that I thought about how football could be a good metaphor for the business of building software products.

PM's AI toolkit - OpenAI Codex and Google Jules

  If I'd try Jules first - I'd have a totally different impression of the state of coding agents today. A much worse impression. Here's why.

In the build zone

  I have built products in many different industries: HRtech, marketing, last-mile.. But one industry, where I really wanted to work, always eluded me - that's Education tech. The stars were never rightly aligned for me to work in EduTech until I decided to build my own EduTech app.

On user's product lifecycle

  Ok, what's now? On Saturday, I celebrated my 2000th day streak on Duolingo. How long is that? Almost five and a half years using this app every day! But that Saturday was the last day I used Duolingo.

Competitive Research Survey

  Whether we like it or not, we all need to be competition-aware as PMs. Most of us have competitors, and understanding what they do might help us to win in the market.