Category: Cloud
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Building a personal CRM in Lovable

I’ve prototyped in Lovable before, but that was without a PRD. I know PMs at companies like Google and Anthropic increasingly skip writing PRDs and jump straight into prototyping. I’ve learned the hard way that skipping clear milestones means spending far more time debugging and tweaking. The Idea I recently took an idea for a…
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“Amp It Up” (Book Review)

Frank Slootman is an experienced tech CEO, having worked at a number of successful software companies. In his current role as CEO at Snowflake, Slootman took the company public back in 2020, with a record breaking IPO. Last year, Slootman published “Amp It Up” in which he shares his learnings as a tech CEO. “Amp…
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Managing products of the future – business as usual?

“Managing products of the future” came up when I was thinking of a suitable title for a piece about products that look and feel very different to most products that we see today. Products such as driverless cars and voice assistants popped into my head as examples of products that are likely to dominate our…
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Understanding more about Amazon Cloud Player and storing music in the cloud
Last week saw the UK launch of Amazon’s Cloud Player, a service enabling Amazon users to play their music stored in the cloud (through Amazon’s Cloud Drive) from any computer or Android device connected to the Internet. The service was launched in the US back in July, and now Amazon’s UK customers will be able…
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Learning about streaming, Part 2: ubiquitous streaming from the cloud
A few blog posts ago, I wrote about streaming and tried to clarify what this involves. One of the upcoming digital trends of 2011 is cloud-based streaming of music. Good examples of this new trend are Apple’s iCloud service and Amazon’s Cloud Drive, but also the likes of Spotify, Pandora and Google are now very active in…
