Half-Baked Product(weli.dev)
1176 points by weli | 361 comments
A blog post using a parable about a founder entering the oven business to critique building products from spreadsheet market analysis without domain skill.
#product-development on Hacker News
7 stories tagged product-development, newest first.
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?(noctua.at)
701 points by buildbot | 282 comments
Noctua blog post explaining why releasing black versions of its PC fans takes so long; the capture shows only a Vercel security checkpoint.
Users only care about 20% of your application(idiallo.com)
367 points by jnord | 174 comments
Blog post by Ibrahim Diallo arguing that users only use about 20% of an application's features, illustrated with Excel.
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists(holovaty.com)
1125 points by adrianh | 386 comments
Adrian Holovaty's blog post about building a feature in Soundslice's sheet music scanner after ChatGPT kept telling users it already existed.
Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it(builder.io)
469 points by tortilla | 219 comments
Builder.io blog post by Steve Sewell arguing against building AI products as thin LLM wrappers and describing an alternative approach to building them.
The product manager role is a mistake(sollecitom.github.io)
354 points by mooreds | 306 comments
Blog post arguing that the product manager role, as popularly modeled in software companies, is a mistake.
It's okay to make something nobody wants(zhangluyao.com)
411 points by levi0214 | 171 comments
A personal blog essay by 张路遥 arguing it's fine to build products for your own excitement rather than for users, opening with a Rick Rubin quote.