Hacker News with Generative AI: Product Management

How to Let Go of a Product You've Built with Passion (leadinginproduct.com)
There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success, it becomes clear that it’s time to move on.

Product Management, Letting Go, Success

15 points by benkan 20 days ago | 0 comments

What qualities should an excellent product manager possess? (ycombinator.com)
Here are some of my thoughts, which might be wrong or incomplete, and I welcome discussion on them.

Product Management, Leadership, Skills, Management

5 points by noahgwok 20 days ago | 3 comments

Things we've learned about building products (posthog.com)
To celebrate 50k subscribers to Product for Engineers, here are the 50 most important lessons we’ve learned about building successful products:

Product Management, Software Development, Startups, Business, Lessons Learned

313 points by fmerian 28 days ago | 110 comments

AI is blurring the line between PMs and engineers? (humanloop.com)
AI is blurring the line between Product Managers and engineers.

AI, Product Management, Engineering, Software Development

53 points by razcle 36 days ago | 58 comments

"MVP" is dead! Long live "FPC". (taylor.town)
Most modern MVPs are neither minimal nor viable. Some are not even products.

Software Development, Startups, Product Management

5 points by surprisetalk 40 days ago | 0 comments

Traffic spikes are bad for your product (andrewchen.substack.com)
Product launches work differently in the age of social media.

Product Management, Marketing, Social Media

82 points by twapi 62 days ago | 75 comments

How does AI affect Product Managers? (ycombinator.com)
I come from a background in product. I started my career as a PM, but now serve as a pseudo-product manager at a software company. I am an expert on the customer and the problem and conduct demos during sales call. From here I help build the roadmap based off customers needs.

Product Management, Artificial Intelligence, Software

9 points by tlombardozzi 62 days ago | 5 comments

Why Your AI Product Team Needs an AI Quality Lead (freeplay.ai)
In a recent episode of the Deployed podcast, Freeplay customer Help Scout shared how they've transformed their customer service platform into an AI-native product company.

AI, Quality Assurance, Product Management, Customer Service

12 points by mooreds 67 days ago | 4 comments

I Fired My Product Team and Replaced Them with AI (accelerateordie.com)
We have product-market fit with a core group of power users. What we also have: a spaghetti monster of a codebase, the complexity of which exceeds human working memory. We fix one thing only to break three others. The system's intricacy has reached a point where no single engineer can understand it in any reasonable timeframe.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Startups, Product Management

6 points by MediaSquirrel 69 days ago | 5 comments

Product Market Fit Collapse: The AI Tipping Point (reforge.com)

Product Management, AI, Business, Startups

5 points by emreb 69 days ago | 0 comments

Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No' (LetsNotDoThat.com)

Product Management, Communication, Decision Making

423 points by mikhaill 72 days ago | 167 comments

Google has no faith in its ability to launch new products (shkspr.mobi)
Back when I was a product manager for a large mobile network operator, we faced a constant problem. How do you launch a new product to the public?

Google, Product Management, Mobile, Technology

12 points by edent 73 days ago | 11 comments

Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job (jessitron.com)
In Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say “Ship the Roadmap.” What new information are they communicating in that case? And if the OKRs say anything else, they’re in conflict the roadmap!

Software Development, OKRs, Product Management

369 points by zdw 87 days ago | 236 comments

AI for Product Managers (productme.org)
Let’s clear up a common misunderstanding: there isn’t really such a thing as an “AI Product Manager.” While the term is trendy and has sparked a lot of discussion online, it’s misleading. Product Managers (PMs) focus on the overall success of a product, while AI or Machine Learning (ML) Engineers handle building and improving AI models.

Product Management, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

22 points by productme 104 days ago | 10 comments

AI Product Management (deeplearning.ai)
Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.

AI, Product Management, Amazon, Generative AI

84 points by zerop 111 days ago | 42 comments

Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it (posthog.com)
When Tim and I first started PostHog in 2020, I was adamant we would never hire a product manager. I wanted engineers to wrestle with hard product problems. Product managers, I believed, would just get in the way.

Software Engineering, Product Management, Startups

5 points by hollowdene 119 days ago | 1 comments

Using Survival Analysis to estimate product lifetime (jumpdata.co.uk)
We needed to estimate the average number of years after purchase various consumer products broke down from a large dataset containing:

Data Science, Statistics, Product Management, Survival Analysis

18 points by sebg 157 days ago | 3 comments

How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal (wordpress.com)
I had a plumber over the other day. I was worried that my water service line might be leaking. There was a wet patch in the yard and I noticed that one of my sink’s water pressure seemed to be lower than usual. If the line had a pinhole leak in it, it could easily burst into a multi-thousand dollar flood on my hands. The joys of home ownership.

Software Development, Product Management, Engineering

169 points by andyg_blog 175 days ago | 145 comments

Prioritize Through Purpose (belowwaterlevel.com)
Prioritization conflicts are exactly the situations when Product Managers must step away from traditionally accepted management tools and frameworks and look deeper into Purpose.

Product Management, Prioritization, Purpose

43 points by shehjar 178 days ago | 21 comments

Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they control what to build and when to build it. Engineers are merely ticket-takers, implementing one instruction after another.

Scrum, Software Development, Agile, Product Management, Software Engineering

14 points by aard 180 days ago | 15 comments

How the Product Bubble Burst (coldwaters.substack.com)
For nearly two decades, investors looking for somewhere to park trillions of freshly printed dollars funded the Product Management bubble. Now it’s bursting.

Product Management, Venture Capital, Economics

20 points by drc500free 184 days ago | 0 comments

Fighting back against proper noun feature names (2021) (kubie.co)
Every time you name a product feature that doesn’t require a name (e.g. “My Account” instead of just “account”) you’re adding cognitive load for users, increasing difficulty for your support staff and technical writers, and adding unnecessary weight to the product that makes it harder to be nimble in the future.

User Experience, Software Development, Product Management

35 points by zzxcvb 190 days ago | 23 comments

Product/Market Fit (PMF): Experience and Data (asmartbear.com)
Every day people debate how to define “Product/Market Fit.”

Product Management, Startups, Business

15 points by gmays 193 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How has Airbnb's decision to merge PMs with design panned out? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: How has Airbnb's decision to merge PMs with design panned out?

Airbnb, Product Management, Design, User Experience

17 points by trojanalert 197 days ago | 3 comments

Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess (tidyfirst.substack.com)
My blood is boiling. I’ve been researching the CTO role, trying to understand the technical executive responsibilities & the various ways they can bundle together. I was listening to the CTO Insights podcast, when I heard this.

Product Management, Leadership, Technology, Podcasts, Careers

57 points by KentBeck 198 days ago | 40 comments

Ask HN: Is a Masters in CS/Engineering worth it for a mid-career PM? (ycombinator.com)
I’m a PM & designer in his late 30s who is itching to get into deep tech (BCI, AI, aerospace, medtech, etc). I have no background in engineering and am considering pursuing a masters either in CS or similar.

Education, Career Advice, Technology, Product Management

70 points by deeptechdreamer 202 days ago | 90 comments

Ask HN: Are Open Source Projects Products? (ycombinator.com)
I would like to know if Open Source Projects can or should be considered Products.

Open Source, Software Development, Product Management

5 points by richardjennings 203 days ago | 11 comments

Engineer's guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt (eng-leadership.com)
But convincing a product manager (PM) to prioritize it over shiny new features? That’s a whole different challenge.

Software Development, Product Management, Technical Debt

45 points by samsepi01 207 days ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: How Can I Quickly Launch My Web Product and Attract Target Users? (ycombinator.com)