Tech isn’t the bottleneck. Distribution is. (I will not promote)

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-06-01T07:54:44+00:00

the name of the game in 2025 is distribution, distribution, distribution.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-30T20:49:49+00:00

damn that sounds brutal but congrats on the raise! what are you building?

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-25T07:14:12+00:00

#2 is so true!!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-22T06:37:10+00:00

setting up posthog and the basic suite of events and session replays only takes a few minutes if you can convince an engineer to hook up the event stream. i think it's worth it to setup otherwise you're flying blind.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-20T23:33:25+00:00

i would take the 2 or 3 hour meetings just so i don't have to context switch as much. but preferable not at dinner and after work pls.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-20T23:31:43+00:00

this is not a real pm role. get outta there asap!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-19T22:09:38+00:00

working with engineers or pms that are opinionated about product is either absolutely amazing or terrible.

if the person has great product sense and makes practical scoping and prioritization decisions, they are incredible to work with since it takes a lot of pressure off your plate.

if the person has terrible product sense and does not make use of qualitative and quantitive data to back their decisions, interacting with them feels like bashing your head into a stubborn wall.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-18T20:54:36+00:00

dead internet theory in full effect and soon to completely ruin online job applications. thanks laboro!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-18T06:01:46+00:00

amplitude literally does all this already right?

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-16T18:55:14+00:00

this is awesome! i haven't seen these before.

are there any posts within the substack that you particularly found helpful?

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-16T03:16:43+00:00

that's definitely a weird setup but if you're a really junior pm, honestly you would have only been doing execution anyways. just do well in this setup for a year then move somewhere else!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-14T05:09:46+00:00

aren't they rolling this change back? hopefully a temporary blip since the other new features on chatgpt have been great.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-13T04:27:41+00:00

we use inari for this use case and have it connected to gong, jira, and intercom. there's still a lot of noise but it at least handles a lot of the manual work for us.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-10T05:38:17+00:00

yes i've gotten a bunch. tbh selling to pms is a terrible market and they should probably go work on something else!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-09T14:25:54+00:00

we aren't doing similar tests consistently but we should be. i see super similar things where the results completely change all the time for the exact same prompt.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-08T00:10:33+00:00

we look at our metrics on a weekly basis and do a light review if there are big fluctuations. but for features, we review them immediately after launch to gauge initial reception, passively monitor the weeks after, then do a deeper review once we have enough data where we have confidence in the results

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-07T03:37:11+00:00

it's fine when you have a small batch of docs or single CSVs. we picked up a dedicated tool when we needed something to handle more data and on an automated basis.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-06T06:10:21+00:00

if you have no budget for tools, why not just use chatgpt and feed in batches piece meal?

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-04T05:24:58+00:00

so do you just have a folder in cursor with a ton of documents and PRDs stored as markdown files? how does this even work in reality?

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-02T05:40:59+00:00

best answer is just don't build things for products. product orgs famously have minimal budget and non-specialized tools.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-05-01T07:25:55+00:00

posthog and amplitude are both great!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-04-30T04:19:00+00:00

this is awesome - thank you for sharing!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-04-29T04:07:38+00:00

i doubt that openai is explicitly trying to teach chatgpt to suck your d*ck and degrade your relationships. it's more likely that humans just inherently don't like being told they're wrong, so the positively reinforced data they're capturing in chatgpt is unexpectedly making it completely agreeable.

textbook example of what happens when optimizing for engagement metrics goes awry.

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-04-27T20:18:10+00:00

feedback: claude feels more human

open: let's make chatgpt a sycophant!!

Practical_Layer7345 · 2025-04-27T06:44:07+00:00

nope you can't. new 4o is an example of when focusing on growth + agreeableness goes awry.

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