“This post is part of a series about making better product decisions. One of the most common questions I get at my company, is why don't we have a mobile app. We are in the age of mobile, how can we possibly survive without a mobile app? There are”
Teresa Torres argues that API teams need product discovery because customer-facing APIs are products, and gaps in them cost adoption. She identifies six recurring usability problems developers hit when learning a new…
Teresa Torres describes her daily workflow of pair-working with Claude Code over the past five months, from task pulling and research digests to drafting articles and producing podcasts. She argues the productivity…
Cagan argues that the 'Business Analyst' role, common in IT and custom-software shops where it gathers requirements for developers, becomes a problem when transplanted into a product organization. There it duplicates…
Lenny Rachitsky lays out a practical playbook for interviewing product managers: a multi-stage funnel with screens, a full-day loop, and panel debriefs. He covers which skills to test, sample questions, how to design…
A practical brainstorming list of growth tactics organized by funnel stage and team area: top-of-funnel acquisition (short and long term), monetization, conversion and activation, retention, and team velocity. The post…
"It can feel like you are the lone champion pushing for change in your organization." That's why we are reading Continuous Discovery Habits together throughout 2026. 📚 The book turns five this year and many of you have bought and read it. But reading isn't the same as doing. So we are reading…
Lenny answers a reader question on how to split effort across conversion levers (focus, motivation, friction) and which tends to pay off most. He shares rules of thumb such as starting wide, mining past wins, and mixing…
This episode of Just Now Possible features AITropos founders Santi Marchiori (CEO) and Juan Haedo (CTO) discussing how they built an AI order-taking agent that handles the full ordering flow inside WhatsApp for…
Marty Cagan argues that the product management field suffers from a widespread problem: many people become product managers after only a Certified Scrum Product Owner course, which teaches delivery-process rituals…
Teresa Torres argues that the biggest barrier to continuous discovery is getting consistent access to customers, and that teams must automate recruiting so interviews happen without weekly hustle. She explains that…
Teresa Torres argues that user researchers have a vital place in continuous discovery, even though most product trios don't include one by default because companies rarely have enough researchers. She outlines three…
This episode of a product podcast features Incident.io's founding engineer Lawrence Jones and AI product lead Ed Dean discussing how their team is building an AI SRE that helps diagnose and respond to production…
Lenny Rachitsky answers a SaaS founder's question about when a small startup should raise money and start hiring. His core guideline is to wait until product/market fit is found, since hiring before then slows a company…
Teresa Torres argues that product managers and hiring managers often chase breadth, trying to be good at everything and ending up mediocre. She proposes a three-tiered approach: build foundational attributes that make…
Teresa Torres argues that product teams should test ideas with experiments before building them, and that this starts with a well-formed hypothesis. Vague statements like 'a redesign will improve usability' cannot be…
Teresa Torres recaps her favorite moments from the Mind the Product SF 2017 conference, which she considers the best product event she attends. She highlights her own workshop on continuous product discovery habits…
Teresa Torres argues there is no single perfect tool for recruiting customer interview participants in continuous discovery; the best tool is the one a team will actually use. The article walks through three steps…
Teresa Torres argues that New Year's resolutions fail because people rely on willpower rather than habits, and she draws on habit research such as Charles Duhigg's work. She describes how she built sustainable routines…
Teresa Torres interviews four members of Medable, a clinical trial platform company, about building Agent Studio, a no-code/low-code platform for configuring and deploying AI agents across the clinical trial lifecycle…
Teresa Torres argues that drawing maps and visual models sharpens thinking, and that the Business Model Canvas spread because it makes a business model visible on one page. She draws on cognitive psychology, notably…
Teresa Torres argues that continuous discovery habits apply to early-stage startups, not just mature products, even before a product or customers exist. She illustrates the ideal path with fictional founders who set a…