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August 15, 2026 · 9 min read
Bumble stretched its match timer from 24 to 72 hours. The change may improve conversation completion while quietly removing the urgency that made a match feel like an event.
July 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Many businesses make money from something slightly different from what they appear to sell. The visible product is often the mechanism that accumulates the real asset.
July 26, 2026 · 12 min read
A YouTube channel reached around 60 million views by repackaging scenes other people made. It made me wonder where online arbitrage ends and a durable company begins.
July 26, 2026 · 14 min read
What if every continuing interest had a small app that could absorb what I learn, survive my attention moving elsewhere, and occasionally reveal that one forgotten bet had become valuable?
July 26, 2026 · 13 min read
Nikita Bier built two apps that reached number one, sold them to Facebook and Discord, and watched both disappear within months. The more interesting product may have been the public proof that he could manufacture growth.
July 26, 2026 · 8 min read
AI can now generate one hundred working apps faster than a single product can find one hundred paying users. The challenge reveals that software has become cheap enough to function as a draft.
July 25, 2026 · 10 min read
Operational AI is making software companies rediscover the bespoke human work they spent years trying to avoid: entering messy organisations, mapping real processes, and staying responsible until the system actually works.
July 25, 2026 · 10 min read
I uploaded my DNA once. Genomelink and YourRoots show how a fixed biological file becomes an endless product of traits, ancestors, maps, hints, and unfinished identity.
July 25, 2026 · 7 min read
AI has made implementation cheap enough that code is no longer my main bottleneck. The harder limit is deciding what a product should do and which ideas deserve to exist.
July 21, 2026 · 14 min read
How AI turns Snowflake and similar data platforms from places that answer questions into systems that detect problems, prepare actions, and verify outcomes.
July 21, 2026 · 9 min read
Eventbrite, Meetup, Resident Advisor, DICE, Luma, Partiful, Posh, and Somo are not merely listing events. Each one has a different theory of how discovery becomes commitment.
July 21, 2026 · 8 min read
Cal AI, Shazam, Loom, PhotoRoom, Otter, and Splitwise reveal a simple product pattern: replace a behavior people avoid with one obvious action.
July 14, 2026 · 8 min read
What the early history of mobile money reveals about workarounds, product discovery, and the unfinished behaviors that become tomorrow's infrastructure.
July 14, 2026 · 8 min read
Luxury museums, open AI models, and private wealth services all point to the same shift: value is moving from the thing being sold into the system surrounding it.
July 8, 2026 · 18 min read
What Netflix thumbnails, Duolingo streaks, Booking.com experiments, Spotify learning rates, Uber metrics, Airbnb guardrails, and Google's 41 shades of blue reveal about designing with data.
July 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Verified revenue does not tell us what to build. It tells us where to look for the next product constraint.
June 26, 2026 · 4 min read
Field observations from CiE 2026 in Hangzhou on how Chinese beauty brands connect research, packaging, manufacturing, commerce, and consumer experience.
March 22, 2026 · 2 min read
A founder-led essay on audience empathy, channel fit, and why the right distribution model can outperform the more ambitious product build.
January 12, 2026 · 2 min read
A practical note on turning AI from a feature announcement into a web experience people can understand, trust, and actually use.
November 3, 2017 · 3 min read
A first-person field note from AI Frontiers 2017 in Santa Clara, before applied deep learning had fully settled into everyday product interfaces.
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