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Product - FinTech

Tip for SaaS owners doing outbound cold mail - buy a 2nd domain, like try{SaaS_name_here}.com, so you don’t tank deliverability on your main domain when experimenting with outbound.


Best product taste in AI goes to @claudeai 👏

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Products die when they try to be everything. Cut the table-stakes. Keep the edge. Differentiate so clearly that people know exactly why you exist. And if you can’t win the end user directly, flip the model. Sell your novelty as a capability to incumbents.


Launching a micro B2B SaaS (will share more soon). Focus on SMBs. What have you found the best way to get traction? Current out bound thoughts on my end: - prospect lists and email blast - launch and share in specific communities What else am I missing or you have found works?


Comparing consoles to the phone ecosystem: - Apple = Xbox and PlayStation - Android = Steam consoles Wonder will this rapid incremental innovation from the latter camp mean the slow demise of the former…

Welcome to the fam, ya'll! -Steam Controller -Steam Machine -Steam Frame (Growing our @Steam Hardware Family in early 2026)



Dogfooding your software is always talked about wrt a tight feedback cycle. The real benefit is team morale. Seeing the product you’re working on evolve in realtime is super powerful.


Interesting to see the push/pull here. Google pays Apple to be default browser (distribution). Apply pays Google AI tech (capability). Distribution only lasts as long as the capabilities of that distribution stay on par with the market/user’s. Otherwise entropy.

Apple is turning to Google's technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant. techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/app…



Smart play - adapt or die. Will we see more single utility SaaS offerings end up bundling around a single broader AI enabled value prop?

Huge news: We’re changing our company name from @Grammarly to Superhuman and launching a new product! The Grammarly brand isn’t going anywhere, but we’re evolving into a multi-product company that includes Grammarly, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new AI assistant called…



Vertical market software feels least exposed to AI disruption in the medium term - user journeys are fixed, users aren’t especially tech-literate and AI will mostly enhance journeys, not replace them. Makes $CSU and peers (ignoring sentiment) look pretty attractive.


Every PM learn to communicate ideas with mockups with ai tooling like Claude Code or Cursor. So simple to take your company’s aesthetic, create a clickable html mockup and record a loom talking through your idea. Takes minutes.


Conservative approach from OpenAI with their new browser. All seem like light touch capabilities to augment existing user journeys. Should be interesting to see what it develops into when they create novel journeys.

Meet our new browser—ChatGPT Atlas. Available today on macOS: chatgpt.com/atlas



This AWS outage is really showing what products users REALLY care about. The louder the complaints - stronger PMF.


Great @sharptechpod on fri - loved the bit on value chains and how value condenses around one player. Microsoft owned the PC era. Apple owned mobile. Now everyone’s fighting for that spot in AI - will gravity pull toward OpenAI at the app layer or NVIDIA at the chip layer? Time…


Scoping conversations become much easier when you have a super clear value prop you are trying to cover for a customer. Does this get us towards the value prop? Yes - in scope. Otherwise not.


Great video by @ejmejm1 on why current frontier model methods won’t “scale” to human like intelligence. It has the ability to apply knowledge but NOT acquire it. youtu.be/COOAssGkF6I?si…

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Tooling changes fast. Markdown doesn’t. It’s still the best way to store textual data - fully parsable by AI, portable across wikis, IDEs, and docs. Keep your content flexible and you can iterate through any toolchain without losing structure or meaning.


The @lexfridman interview with @durov is well worth a listen for anyone in product. The level of craft and thought in @telegram is another level. Such a principled and craft led company.

Here's my 4+ hour conversation with Pavel Durov (@durov), founder and CEO of Telegram. This was one of the most fascinating and powerful conversations I've ever had in my life. We discuss everything from his philosophy on freedom to government bureaucracies, intelligence…



All of product is an iterative loop - the construct, messaging, journeys and capabilities. Anchor to one side of the value prop (customer segment or product construct) and keep iterating till you get a fit.


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