Tag: product

📖 Creative Selection

Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

🤳 20.49 — notes on Social Media

Audience

At Gamestry our mission is to help creators build an audience. Hence all of our resources and efforts must be directed towards their empowering — so they can focus on what matters, their audience.

🕺 20.43 — notes on TikTok

Creators as Business Potential

The creator economy has enabled any of us to become creators and directly connect to large audiences. The immediate consequence of all this is that, at some point, all creators will become business themselves.

Leaving the Mac behind

The rationale behind the first Radio Lanza challenge — or why leave the Mac behind and make of the iPad my main computing device by the end of the year.

📖 Hooked

How to Build Habit-Forming Products

YouTube Won't Work

Letting an algorithm in charge of content distribution, inevitably diluted the value of individual contributors. The creator economy is reversing this trend and, slowly but surely, returning the power to creators.

Attracting and Retaining Creators

The cornerstone of any platform success revolves around the creators — bring the top-notch abroad and eyeballs will inevitably follow. Then, how do you attract, but most important, retain creators?

Empowering Creators

Peeling a slice from a well-established platform is always hard. Your value prop must be unique and the audience large enough to generate the initial momentum. By aligning the creators' interests with those of the viewer we are building a gaming-focused community.

Heuristics For A Business Idea

Thinking of a new business idea? This is framework to make sure we are not stumbling upon the next billion-dollar idea and, instead, we are maximizing our odds of success.

#TIL side effects

The most surprising and unexpected insights after a month of publishing a daily Tweet about something I've learned that day. Or what I've learned from Today I Learned.

Leapfrogging The Phone

We all have a hard time learning from history. Just a few years ago, a phone was considered not capable enough to ever replace a PC. Time has proven all of us wrong. Smartwatches are already walking down the exact same path. Yet we seem to have forgotten.

Productizing Hacks

A great way to generate user insights is to look for hacks they come up with on their own to get the job done. This is exactly what pansa is ultimately about: designing an explicit feature out my note-taking hacks.

Magis 1.0

Introducing Magis 1.0, with a new name, continuous deployment, user authentication, real-time database... and an inconsequential, but exhausting data model refactor.

Broken Notes — Take Two

In this second attempt, I distill the problems behind the note-taking experience from a product perspective, rather than taking an unreasonably opinionated approach, as I did in the first post.

Broken Notes

Note-taking apps are frustrating tools when it comes to building long-lasting domain knowledge. While they are delightful input mechanisms, most still fail at post-processing the information, connecting its content, and present it in the form of knowledge.

The Would You Rather Refactor

The product story behind the major refactor to the Magis app (formerly Would You Rather), Udacity's React Nanodegree second project, based on React & Redux.

📖 Anything You Want

40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur

Detachment Strategy For The Apple Watch

What if Apple became its own carrier and rolled out the next Apple Watch with a built-in, low power, worldwide cellular capabilities that would provide the device with an always-on connection.

Watching Google's AI Play Go

It is not a human move — Fan Hui said. We are teaching computers how to think.

Ad-Blockers And Market Niches

The Internet has flipped the advertisement industry in its head. Which in turn, has surfaced a plethora of market niches that were simply not available before, yet they remain to be addressed.

Hello, wallapop

eBay is leaving the occasional, unsophisticated seller behind. wallapop has timely captured the niche with a laser-focused, mobile-first experience that makes of second-hand marketplaces a pure delight.

Farewell, eBay

While eBay has undoubtedly grown into one of the largest online marketplaces, it has done it at the expense of becoming a jack of all trades, but master of none. Delivering a poor experience for solo-users wanting to sell their stuff.

Lifestyle Businesses

An exploration of how growth affects different kinds of business and the reasons why, if some day I found myself in the situation of starting a new venture, I'd make sure that it doesn't scale.

A Kindle Tribute

An oversimplified, overly opinionated, non-affiliated commentary around the trade-offs between the reading experience of the Kindle e-readers versus the good old paper books.

The Smartwatch

Technology is getting closer. Yet we still haven't found the edge that will make it thrive and take off. Instead, we seem to be walking down the same path as we did during the transition from PCs to smartphones.

Continuity

We are moving into a world with more devices, not less. A world swamped by a wide range of always-connected devices and sensors. However, we still have not figured out how to manage state across all of them.

The Ultimate Device

Imagine a multi-purpose device that delivers the best experience at any given situation. This article examines the current market trends hunting for the ultimate device, the one that will rule them all.

Iteration vs. Innovation

Despite iterative models feel more static than bursts of innovation, they can potentially unlock greater opportunities in the long run. Hence, to achieve something truly remarkable, is it better to go with a portfolio approach or just focus on a handful of bets?

Hard Choices

Making product decisions is hard. The moment we choose, we are making implicit decisions and exposing ourselves to be wrong. We are all afraid to be wrong, but not deciding can set you up for a way worse outcome down the road.

iomando API

Introducing iomando API, the toolkit that will allow developers to create, build and integrate new products on top of our access technology.

Turning Weaknesses Around

Problems overwhelm us and we want to get them out of the way as soon as possible. Yet sometimes, a closer look, might turn them into growth opportunities and means to deliver amazing experiences.

Plastic For Bits

The ultimate raison d'être of iomando is as simple as the fact that we are replacing plastic for bits. That's what software does by definition, it enables and reaps the benefits of scale.

iomando Door Status

Introducing iomando Door Status, a new technology that will allow every admin to check, at any given moment, in real-time, their door status.

Discovering As You Go

As we advanced on our journey we discovered new, initially invisible markets to serve, where our product was a better fit. The hardest part though was acknowledging that our initial product ideas were not optimal.

iomando Is Now Able To Push

Introducing iomando 2.0.1, the ~~not that~~ minor update that brings along push synchronization across the board. The feature that nobody will see, but everybody will notice.

iomando 2.0 — Behind The Scenes

Introducing iomando 2.0, the product story behind its three most prominent and challenging features.

iomando 2.0 — Hardware Update

Introducing iomando 2.0 hardware, with double relay bay to control up to four accesses, radio communications for mesh networking and GPS support.

iomando 2.0

Introducing iomando 2.0, with a redesigned interface, passwordless login, support for multiple doors, location-based permissions and much more.

iomando 1.1

An original, unaltered replica of a post published on the official iomando blog that introduced iomando 1.1, with a faster and more secure open experience and a new mobile management tool.

Betting On Cellular Technology

The reasons behind the controversial decision of using cellular technology — rather than Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, to power our IoT devices.

iomando 1.0

An original, unaltered replica of the very first post published on the official iomando blog that introduced iomando 1.0, the first version of the product.