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Lovable (Product Review)
Last year I started creating rapid prototypes using tools like Vercel V0, Bolt and Cursor, helping me to get ideas across and get quick customer feedback. I’ve since heard good things about Lovable, so let’s give this AI tool a try by creating a simple theatre ticketing app. On the Lovable homepage I enter the prompt…
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Why product people should know about MCP (and what they should know about it)
I recently did an agentic AI course in which I learned how to create agents and connect them in a workflow. The need for solid data was one of the things that this course reinforced, with a strong focus on knowledge bases and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). I’ve since then learned about the Model Context Protocol…
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“Impact-first Product Teams” (Book Review)
There are two things that frustrate me when I see some product managers and teams at work. First, PMs and teams not making a tangible impact. Instead, these teams just focus on releasing features “that the business has asked for”. Second, PMs talking about “the business” as if it was a separate entity that they’re…
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The Product-Led Playbook (Book Review)
“The Product-Led Playbook” has been written by Wes Bush as a practical companion to his previous books about product-led growth. Bush’s earlier book, Product-led growth, is all about designing and building products in such a way that the product itself can drive user acquisition, expansion, and retention. Things like subscription renewals or account upgrades are…
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DeepSeek R1 (Product Review)
By now, the Internet is all about DeepSeek and what makes its LLM different from other LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGpT or Anthropic’s Claude. What stands out to me is DeepSeek’s thinking and reasoning output. As a simple example of DeepSeek’s ability to think in real-time, I asked it to tell me how to build a…
