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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the purpose of a product and how to successfully fulfill it. When writing last year about “product market flex” (which is fluid) vs “product market fit” (which is static), I noted that there is sometimes a mismatch between your product’s capabilities and the maturity of the market.

I was treating “teaching users your product” as 1 big job, and in reality there are potentially 3 sub-jobs hiding behind it. When you teach your product, you actually teach 3 different dimensions: the interface, the domain, and the benefit.

An interesting story was at the center of music culture the last couple of weeks: “Last week, The Cure announced their first North American tour in almost 10 years. As part of their deal with ticketmaster/livenation, The Cure demanded that ticketmaster refrain from using a dynamic pricing model. A dynamic pricing model is where if demand for a certain act is very high during the initial sale period, ticketmaster will then raise the ticket price unilaterally. That is, depending on when you check out, the price for the same seats may fluctuate from between, $80 to $300 dollars, as ticketmaster's systems identifies hot shows, acts, and seats.”

The implication: first, choose your fairness wisely. Choose the groups you want to be fair toward: gender, race, age, and income. And understand that there are trade-offs.

“I think people struggle with email because they’ve been using it for a long time, and they’ve developed bad habits,” he says. “They don’t know when or how to best use it. And no matter what company you’re at, email is the one tool that you’re always using.”

An extended list including a huge amount of products and services that are completely free!

Courier is a notification API built for developers. Design once, and deliver to any channel – email, Slack, SMS, push, and more – all through a single API.

Courier is an API and web studio for development teams to manage all product-triggered communications (email, chat, in-app, SMS, push, etc.) in one place.

What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth.

The core value of the product—the “magic moment”—lives with the best customers, who love your product the most. First, understand them better than they understand themselves. Once you understand what the magic is, and the value it unlocks, then you go to work on the rest of the funnel.

On efficiency, hiring, incentivisation and how we confuse communication latency with analysis speed

Just because we can see more information faster, doesn’t mean we know how to make sense of any or all of it. The lessons are more complex than “treat your people as ends not means”, though that’s a big part of it.

Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server - GitHub - cloudflare/wildebeest: Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server

Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server. Wildebeest runs on top Cloudflare's Supercloud, uses Workers, Pages, Durable Objects, Queues, the D1 database to store metadata and configurations, Zero Trust Access to handle authentication and Images for media handling.

Can build and release websites fully on Cloudflare stack. Wrangler & Miniflare are useful (nice template for it).

Can build and release websites fully on Cloudflare stack. Wrangler & Miniflare are useful (nice template for it). Hono (nice starter template), Worktop & workers Go lib (template) seem like nice web frameworks built on top of Cloudflare workers.

Microsoft REST API Guidelines. Contribute to microsoft/api-guidelines development by creating an account on GitHub.

Microsoft's internal company-wide REST API design guidelines. Teams at Microsoft typically reference this document when setting API design policy. They may additionally create documents specific to their team, adding further guidance or making adjustments as appropriate to their circumstances.

When the money flows freely, and there's a strong cachet to having tons of open positions, you can be forgiven to think that the individual productivity on a product team just doesn't matter. So much time is spent coordinating the work anyway. Who cares if the stack you're using takes twice the number of people to ship meaningful updat...

If you're a SaaS entrepreneur, now is a good time to do a service check on your product team productivity. What would it do for your prospects if you could ship more, and faster, with fewer folks? Have you just followed trends blindly because that's what worked for Facebook or Google?

Follow these tips to ensure you have a successful journal club.

A scientific journal club is a dedicated meeting where researchers gather to discuss publications from peer-reviewed journals. These meetings help researchers keep up with current findings, exercise their critical thinking skills, and improve their presentation and debate abilities.

Two tools and some quick tips to easily create an accessible contrasted color palette for your designs, whether it's web, ui or even mobile design

Yellow is a really tricky color when it comes to contrast. As you can see my current yellow color on a white background and white text on my yellow color fails all tests, even the large text one.

When defining a proper color palette for the design system I was working on, I came across the “Dark Yellow Problem”, where designers try…

This is what I call the dark yellow problem: trying to come up with a shade of yellow to make it accessible and align with other colors in the palette. But there’s just no such a thing as a “dark yellow”. Yellow, by definition, needs to stay light.

For almost two years now, the vast majority of our backend code was written in Rust (aside from a little bit of Python). I love Rust, it’s by far my favorite language. I find myself missing match in pretty much every other language I go to. However, if I

Rust is a great language for building performant production systems. If you are prototyping, iterating with customers, or just unsure in the product direction - you are probably going to waste valuable time with Rust.

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Create cohesive, consistent, and accessible color palettes

Primer Prism is a tool for creating cohesive, consistent, and accessible color palettes

The Unbearable Sameness of the Modern Web

There is so much room for creative expression on the web! Standardizing UIs makes sense for large software companies — but please, let’s hold the line with the WWW also being a space for you and me to make weird little sites.

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