In his second Heavybit Speaker Series presentation, Jeff Atwood shares valuable insights gained from building Discourse. Discourse is a modern forum tool designed to help users have meaningful conversations with one another on the web.
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The Kubelist Podcast Ep. #54, The Age of Personalized Software with David Crawshaw
In episode 54 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie sit down with David Crawshaw. David shares how a weekend WireGuard experiment became Tailscale, and how a series of unsuccessful developer-tool experiments eventually became exe.dev. The conversation offers a candid look at product discovery, technical failure, cloud economics, and building infrastructure for AI agents.
What Is Product Engineering? (And Why Does It Matter?)
Product engineering is an emerging discipline that straddles engineering and product management to collect and implement user feedback.
Using User Research as a Pre-Product-Market Fit Tactic
So you have an idea. How do you build an MVP that is usable to your target users? The answer lies in thorough user research.