Zero-bugs policy is a myth
Zero-bugs policy sounds great â but itâs a myth. Even top projects have bugs. Fix the critical 80% instead of chasing every tiny issue.
Michael Dubakov
SaaS Ethics Manifesto
Some SaaS tools give off good vibes (Notion, Ghost), others bad vibes (Motion, ClickUp). Why? It all comes down to ethics
Malleable Software: code â low-code â no-code
After my last post Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World many people assumed that I was talking about code-level tools only. But it is not exactly right, malleability lives on multiple layers â from raw code to low-code to no-code. There are several categories of malleable tools with different abstraction
Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World
In the AI era, the winners wonât be the tools you adapt to â theyâll be the tools that adapt to you.
Let's take Linear. It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI thrives in messy, open-ended
Emigration
My psychotherapist (my wife) told me I need to write.
âWhat should I write about?â I asked.
âIt doesnât matter, just write. When you write, you feel better,â she answered.
For the last four years, writing hasnât come easily. Since August 2020. Writing has been heavy, to put
Dissatisfaction leads to progress. Doesnât it?
I am not often satisfied with any results: not of my own work, not my teamsâ, not that of the company as a whole or each individual person in it. When someone shows me something, I usually go: âWell, thatâs not quite my tempo.â Alright, I donât throw
Startups and near-death experience
Startups are hard đ. Nobody has a ready recipe for a successful startup. Itâs like life. Nobody has a ready recipe for a fulfilling, happy and successful life neither. Few startups are successful from day one and never really struggle. Most startups do struggle and die. But I think that
Use networks to prioritize product features
Features prioritization is the hardest problem in product management. There are many techniques that might help and Iâve tried them all (with no great success). I think something important is missing. In a nutshell, these techniques are just linear models that work as good (or as bad) as intuition
Automations Concepts Overview for No-code Tools
Almost any serious no-code tool should have automations at some point. Automation is bread and butter of a useful system that help people be more productive. First stage is data collecting for sure, but second is automation.
We are thinking about automations in Fibery, since it seems data collection problem
đ A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing
Back in the â90s, people were already doing what weâre more or less trying to do now at Fibery. Unfortunately, the arrival of the internet practically froze all progress in the field of no-code solutions (tools where users solve their own problems by creating custom appsâthink Excel, AutoCAD,