Test-n-Tell - tiny apps, Big ideas

  I've been doing a lot of vibe coding lately, and one tech stack emerged for me as the most practical. Spoiler alert 1: it's Firebase + Codex + Google Cloud. Spoiler 2: tomorrow it could change.

  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 this series, I've tested and reviewed multiple tools in the AI agents category. Some of them are useful, others less so, but one thing is certain: this category has a huge potential to change our whole industry and have major effects on people's roles.

  The term MVP became as ambiguous as agile or startup. Everyone seems to be building MVPs even though in many cases (most?) it's not an MVP they are building, but the first version of their product, missing the biggest value a good MVP could deliver.

  Previously in this series , we learned how to use ChatGPT to learn the basics of product management. However, the best learning is doing and generative AI can help us here as well.

What differentiates good products from great products? Why we often choose a certain product from many similar alternatives?

By now everybody should be familiar with the concept of an MVP? Are you? A Minimum Viable Product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. Eric Ries Good. Now remember the last time you did an MVP. What was your goal? What should have been your goal?

The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at Google Ventures, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more — packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.

Can you learn how people will react to your product without actually building it ? Yes, you can. To do that you'll need a prototype of your product and actual people to try it out.