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Michael Dubakov

Riding the edge of cHa0S. Founder: Fibery (2017), Targetprocess (2004).

📍 Cyprus

Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World

In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll 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. “What should I write about?” I asked. “It doesn’t matter, just write. When you write, you feel better,” she answered. For the last four years, writing hasn’t come easily. Since August 2020. Writing has been heavy, to put

Dissatisfaction leads to progress. Doesn’t it?

I am not often satisfied with any results: not of my own work, not my teams’, not that of the company as a whole or each individual person in it. When someone shows me something, I usually go: ”Well, that’s not quite my tempo.” Alright, I don’t throw

Startups and near-death experience

Startups are hard 🐝. Nobody has a ready recipe for a successful startup. It’s 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 I’ve 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

📘 A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing

Back in the ’90s, people were already doing what we’re 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 apps—think Excel, AutoCAD,

No-code Revolution. Why Now?

It seems no-code software is booming. Fast adoption, huge rounds, insane valuation 🦄, happy customers. Why now? Why not 20 years ago? Why not 20 years in the future? This is an interesting question I got from one VC partner. I didn’t manage to answer it clearly on the spot

Features composability

When we add features to a product, we rarely think about composability. We assume that it is OK for any feature to rely on internal implementation of some other features. Let’s take a simple ToDo App (every developer created one in his lifespan). For example, we add a Filter

Make your own tools

Not Invented Here is a popular mantra in many companies. Majority thinks that you should focus on business value, and all other things are secondary. Let’s take a small company of 20 people that creates iOS Apps. Obviously, you should use existing tools for coding, tasks management, team communication,