Hacker News with Generative AI: Product Development

Amazon Kills yet Another Service (neowin.net)
Amazon is reportedly killing Inspire, its short-form video and photo feed for discovering products, launched back in 2022.

Amazon, Business, Social Media, Product Development

16 points by bundie 2 days ago | 4 comments

Feature Overload Is Killing Your MVP–This AI Prompt Fixes It in Minutes (founderplaybook.substack.com)
Building too much, too soon? Use this AI-powered method to cut the clutter and launch faster.

Startup, MVP, Artificial Intelligence, Product Development

3 points by readytolaunch 2 days ago | 0 comments

Thinking Machines Lab (thinkingmachines.ai)
Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company. We're building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI work for their unique needs and goals.

Artificial Intelligence, Research, Product Development

30 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 4 comments

My 2 year journey to building a successful product ($2,700 MRR) (ycombinator.com)
Today: Buildpad has now reached close to 150 paying customers and $2,700 MRR. We just released Buildpad 2.0 and I think this is the update that will take us to $10k MRR.

Startups, Product Development, Business

40 points by davidheikka 6 days ago | 13 comments

Product Development Processes You Might Not Have Heard of (2022) (departmentofproduct.com)
According to the Department of Product’s survey data, by far the most popular product development methodology (for our audience at least) is Scrum with 2 week sprints.

Product Development, Agile, Methodology, Surveys

115 points by lgunsch 7 days ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Calculate Your Revenue (postmake.io)
Often when we're building a new product or service, we spend a lot of time thinking about our plans and pricing options.

Startups, Revenue, Business, Product Development

20 points by Malfunction92 17 days ago | 5 comments

Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo (cnbc.com)

Social Media, Instagram, TikTok, Product Development

17 points by grajaganDev 20 days ago | 41 comments

Stripe lays off 300 employees, mostly in product, engineering, and operations (msn.com)

Layoffs, Tech Industry, Stripe, Business, Product Development

9 points by thehrfairplay 30 days ago | 2 comments

How would you start to learn coding today? (ycombinator.com)
I'm a PM and Product Designer looking to transition into launching my own products. While I have basic programming knowledge, I'm trying to be strategic about what technical skills to develop given the current AI landscape.

Programming, Career Advice, Product Development, AI

23 points by cbenjumea 31 days ago | 24 comments

$250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on? (ycombinator.com)
Currently learning basic SQL (for free on Code Academy), already have a Coursera subscription for business courses. Interested in different forms of learning (MOOCs don't really engage me that well).My background is in finance and I would like to learn more about product development and strategy.

Learning, Finance, Product Development, Strategy

29 points by czatt 55 days ago | 21 comments

Building AI Products–Part I: Back-End Architecture (philcalcado.com)
In 2023, we launched an AI-powered Chief of Staff for engineering leaders—an assistant that unified information across team tools and tracked critical project developments.

Artificial Intelligence, Back-End Development, Software Architecture, Product Development

162 points by rafaelferreira 55 days ago | 21 comments

Show HN: Open-Source AI Templates to help you build your next product (metaschool.so)
Metaschool projects are best viewed on desktop

Open-Source, AI, Templates, Product Development

12 points by miletus 66 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: What are your experiences with scaling a company? (ycombinator.com)
Let's say your company has 20 employees (markets, products, dev) and one stable product they offer. The plan is to introduce another new product and maybe add new members to the team.

Startups, Scaling, Business Growth, Product Development, Hiring

70 points by surrTurr 73 days ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: Product to improve monitoring and documentation: a good idea? (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,I have an idea for a product, but I want to test the waters before building anything.

Startups, Product Development, Software, Monitoring, Documentation

4 points by d--b 79 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: DailyPings – Like HN, but for maker's daily progress (dailypings.com)

Hacker News, Product Development, Community, Maker Culture

8 points by drdruide 82 days ago | 4 comments

Managing High Performers (substack.com)
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR

Management, Product Development, Engineering, Startups, Growth

55 points by thisismytest 95 days ago | 103 comments

Ask HN: How do you decide product direction as a small team? (ycombinator.com)
We are building a product, however, we don't know whether people will use it or not. We did initial user interviews (10+) and got signal that users will use something like that. We took YC advise to heart and did manual work that delivers results for our product. It is painful but we got around $500 in payments.Now, we want to build full-scale product. However, we have been operating product on users' behalf.

Startup Advice, Product Development, User Research

7 points by logicalxor 99 days ago | 3 comments

Delivering actionable feedback (posthog.com)
"Delivering actionable feedback is hard. You need to be brutally honest while at the same time not discouraging."

Feedback, Communication, User Experience, Product Development

97 points by carlual 100 days ago | 21 comments

Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf] (aidantr.github.io)

Artificial Intelligence, Science, Innovation, Product Development

180 points by therabbithole 100 days ago | 47 comments

Principles for product velocity (ssoready.com)
Building the right thing shouldn't take very long -- doing away with nonsense makes product development really fast

Product Development, Agile Development, Efficiency

226 points by noleary 105 days ago | 132 comments

The Product-Market Fit Scale (iwantproductmarketfit.substack.com)
Everyone aims for product-market fit.

Startups, Product Development, Business, Growth

23 points by walterbell 106 days ago | 4 comments

How we didn't find product market fit (medium.com)
How we didn’t find the Product market fit with $200.000 Pre-seed Funding. Here’s the truth. — Part 2

Startups, Product Development, Funding, Business

41 points by withoutshape 115 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Create Waitlist Pages (fastwaitlist.com)
Validate your next product idea without writing a single line of code.

Show HN, Product Development, Web Development, Startups

11 points by ondrej_bartos_ 118 days ago | 1 comments

Shipping Threads in 5 months (infoq.com)
I'm Zahan. I've been an engineer at Meta for over a decade. I'm here to tell you about how we launched the Threads app last year.

Software Development, Social Media, Meta, Product Development

42 points by hn1986 132 days ago | 46 comments

Mozilla – Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure (mozilla.org)
As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising.

Mozilla, Digital Advertising, Online Advertising, Product Development, Infrastructure

12 points by RyeCombinator 139 days ago | 1 comments

Tips for Building and Deploying Robots (rodneybrooks.com)
This post is not about research or developing software for robots. Instead it is some tips on how to go about building robots for mass deployment and how to leverage those deployed robots for improving your product.

Robotics, Engineering, Deployment, Product Development

122 points by dannyobrien 144 days ago | 29 comments

PostHog – engineering handbook – shipping and releasing (posthog.com)
ProductsPricingDocsCommunityCompanyGet startedAboutRoadmapWIPChangelogPeopleTeamsHandbookBlogCareersShipping & releasingHandbookTable of contentsChapters1. Why does PostHog exist?2. How we got here3. How we get users4. Who we are building for5. How we make users happy6. How we make money7. Enduringly low prices8. Deciding which products to build9. A wide company with small teams10. How we're building a world-class team11. What we value12. Providing a world-class engineering environment13. Not running out of money14. Where we are now15. Where are we going?16.

Engineering, Software Development, Product Development, Open Source, Company Culture