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Tag: product-strategy

7 articles tagged with product-strategy

From Gachi to Tuki: Turning Room Reactions Into Product Priorities

8/28/2026 • Product Management

How GoGachi.app and Tuki fit together in my build-in-public stack: one captures fast desirability signal, the other turns that signal into ranked, dependency-aware product planning.

Interconnection Is a Product Funnel

8/23/2026 • Energy

Clean energy projects do not fail only because of demand or technology. Many fail inside the interconnection funnel, where uncertainty, queue position, study assumptions, and upgrade costs decide what can actually get built.

RFPs Are a Knowledge Management Problem Wearing a Sales Hat

8/20/2026 • Product Management

The more I worked on Nimra.ai, the more obvious it became that RFP response pain is not really about writing. It is about retrieving, trusting, and reusing institutional knowledge.

Ideas Are Cheap: The Story of the Charger Reliability Index We Didn't Ship

10/18/2025 • Product Management

Two years ago, our Data Analyst had a brilliant idea for a Charger Reliability Index. We didn't build it. Now our competitors are launching theirs. Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

It Is Only Prioritization When It Hurts

1/18/2023 • Product Management

A poster from Facebook's Analog Research Laboratory captured the painful truth about product management: if choosing what to build doesn't hurt, you're not actually prioritizing.

The Free Ice Cream Problem: Why Users Say Yes to Everything

1/19/2022 • Product Management

Ask users if they want a feature and they'll say yes. That 'yeah, sure' is not validation—it's the sound of someone agreeing to free ice cream they don't actually want.

The Agency Paradox: When Speed and Budget Collide

11/12/2019 • Product Management

Bringing in outside help can accelerate your timeline—but it also adds pressure that can compromise the very design process you're trying to execute well.