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by brettcvz 7y ago
I suspect that the price of the components put this out of the range that most people would pay for it, but I appreciate the sentiment. While most of the IP at this point is open-source, if someone is excited about figuring out how to turn
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Very kind of you! I'm happy to help you set one up if you're willing to buy the components. The wiring is very simple, and while the code is open source, I'd also be happy to send you the SD card image if you'd like.
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UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk(brettcvz.com)
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An opinionated framework for project metrics(brettcvz.com)
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Don't use low-fidelity prototypes to test desirability(brettcvz.com)
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Customer needs first, business needs second(brettcvz.com)
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Motivation as Persuasive Memory(brettcvz.com)
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You need to make sure the whole thing makes sense(brettcvz.com)
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Three paths to a first job in Product Management(brettcvz.com)
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by brettcvz 7y ago
It’s a neat idea! We have an “internal products” team at Clever that is tasked with building tooling for our support team (and all our other teams too!) that makes them more efficient. They are definitely worth the investment, and I’d enc
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Do you know anywhere that does this really well in practice? My concern is that it would end up similar to the internal feedback problem where people feel like they submit requests into a queue that never gets worked on. I feel like I know
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Totally agree with the “yes and” approach of firehose plus top two - I haven’t had a chance to update the post yet, but responded to similar feedback here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971011
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Totally agree! I use this technique as a complimentary layer to “send all possible feedback my way”. Tactically, we achieve this through having a handful of different “feedback-X” channels for different audiences that people dump feedback i
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Okay I think we’re saying pretty similar things then! The “top two” technique works particularly well for addressing “performance” type features for products already in market. Most customer requests, and most of the things that my stakehol
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by brettcvz 7y ago
“customers get features deemed most valuable by product folk” - perhaps I am misreading the intent here, but this seems like a license for product people to ignore really getting to know the customer problem. Contrary to popular SV wisdom,
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by brettcvz 7y ago
I hear you - instead of “what did you say no to”, I prefer “would you say <new thing> is a higher priority than <previous thing you said was #1 or #2>?” - it’s much easier for people to evaluate “A or B” tradeoffs than “A or not
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by brettcvz 7y ago
I haven’t found this to be the case. If needed, you can always surface the constraint of “look, I have N other teams who are giving me their top two requests, in addition to trying to move goals X, Y, Z. I want to support you and move the b
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Managing product requests from customer-facing teams(brettcvz.com)
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by brettcvz 7y ago
Makes sense! For the eventual blog post, I'd be particularly interested in hearing how you decide which small bets to make (e.g. did Corporate Cards start from an employee saying "I want to go work on this"? An internal new-p
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by brettcvz 7y ago
It’s impressive to see the velocity of new products that Stripe is putting out. I’d be really interested to see a blog post or similar on how they decide which initiatives to invest in, how they structure those teams and set milestones, etc
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A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech(edsurge.com)
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by brettcvz 9y ago
Clever has a slightly unique business model (we sell to edtech companies, not to consumers or schools), but we do have a healthy, growing, sustainable business. Source: I work at Clever
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by brettcvz 9y ago
I have a strong suspicion that this is a spurious conclusion, for the same reason that the "moderate drinking improves health" correlation was debunked: http://theconversation.com/maybe-moderate-drinking-isnt-so-g.
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Show HN: Soundbyte – a speaker with a computer inside(brettcvz.com)
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by brettcvz 11y ago
I would say it's safe to assume many, many apps do this. For anyone looking to tailor ads/recommendations to their users, the opportunity to peek at all the apps you have installed is too tempting to resist.
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by brettcvz 12y ago
Interestingly, with a bit of people skills and a bit of restraint, honey badger developers can make rather good PMs because of their often relentless and no-barrier-too-high drive to make things happen.
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by brettcvz 12y ago
Are there any companies who are using this currently? Can anyone speak to how it's working for them?
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Introducing Do – a new class of apps by IFTTT(blog.ifttt.com)
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Identify issues instead of providing solutions(brettcvz.com)
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You can only make time(brettcvz.com)
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