Andrew Schmidt

Andrew Schmidt

Growing products people love

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I'm fascinated by what makes products resonate with users. My work centers on growth strategies, customer insights, and experimentation that help products reach the right audience and keep them engaged.

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Do we need an phone app?

An phone app with sync'ed notes could be convenient, but we then lose the co-edit feature on the phone. It's more a quick notes. Eventually we can setup co-edit with the agent on the cloud. So phone can also enjoy the co-edit. Currently leave a todo for the agent on phone is definitely do-able.

Any thoughts?

4d ago

How do you tell if a cold outreach message is actually from a person anymore?

Got three outreach messages this week that all mentioned something specific about my product, referenced a post I made, sounded like someone had actually looked at what I do. Replied to one with a simple question. Took them over a day to answer something a real person would've typed back in a minute.

That's the weird part now. A bad cold email used to be easy to spot, generic greeting, no personalization, obviously copy pasted. Now the personalization itself is automated, so the one thing that used to signal someone actually cared doesn't mean anything anymore.

I wonder how people are handling this from both sides. If you send outreach, are you leaning into AI personalization or avoiding it because you think people can smell it now. And if you're on the receiving end, has anything actually worked to tell real interest apart from a well disguised template before you waste time replying.

5d ago

Building AI products for regulated industries is "move fast and break things" officially dead?

CEO of Kednus here, we're building AI-native intelligence & compliance tooling, so I live in the tension between shipping fast and answering 200-question security reviews.

 

Here's what I keep running into: enterprise and regulated buyers (finance, healthcare, gov) LOVE the AI demo, then the procurement process asks where your SOC 2 is, how you isolate tenant data, and whether a human reviews model outputs before they trigger decisions.

 

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