“Old product backlogs can be the place where ideas go to die. But they can also be a treasure trove of feedback from your customers. And in some cases, they might be a mix of both. The trouble is, you might not know until you spend some time reviewing your”
AI can tell you why you lost a deal even when it has no idea. I asked Claude why Linear is losing deals to Jira. All it had was public web research. There were no buyer interviews, call notes, or deal records behind the answer. Claude still gave me reasons. With the win/loss
Teresa Torres recaps her talk and fireside chat at Y Oslo 2024 on continuous discovery. She argues discovery is a team activity involving engineers, designers and PMs, that teams should start with the smallest possible…
Marty Cagan argues that Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)—technical product creators who embed with customers to deeply understand their problems—are a powerful practice that applies well beyond the hard, high-stakes…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with co-host Petra Wille, previews the 2026 Product at Heart conference. The hosts explain that curating a single-track event is harder when AI moves so quickly, so AI will…
Julie Zhuo's paid essay opens with Andy Warhol's point that every Coke tastes the same regardless of who drinks it, then uses that idea to frame a discussion of software. The piece appears to argue that digital products…
Executive coach Jack Cohen introduces GAIN, a framework for giving feedback by framing it around the gain people can achieve rather than the pain to avoid. It walks through each element (Goal, Actions, Impacts, Next…
They're taking everything they know about commerce, customer behavior, and product strategy, and using that knowledge to systematically generate the training data they need. It transforms the data bottleneck from a passive waiting game into an active engineering challenge. /3
Teresa Torres responds to recent supply-chain attacks on software packages by describing how she hardens her local machine while still letting Claude access many folders for her task and research system. She recaps the…
Teresa Torres opens 2024 by departing from her usual annual plan, explaining that a sabbatical-style 2023 was derailed by her husband's surgery and a difficult platform migration, leaving her facing burnout. Rather than…
Lenny Rachitsky's follow-up report uses data from TrueUp (new tech job openings) and Live Data Technologies (job changes) to map the state of the product job market. It covers a slow recovery, a tilt toward senior PM…
Teresa Torres argues that product builders rarely stop to consider the ethics of the data they collect, even though user tracking has grown far beyond the cookies that alarmed people in the late 1990s. She notes that…
Product Hunt's doing something new today. Years ago we talked about adding community-driven changelog. Now with agents, the user request/bug report is the start of the prompt.