Andrew Dale

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Enthusiastic, hands-on product leader with 15+ years of experience driving innovation and delivering measurable business impact across startups, scaleups, and enterprise organizations. Skilled in building and leading high-performing teams, aligning product strategy with business goals, and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and user-centric design. Adept at managing complex stakeholder relationships and delivering exceptional results under tight deadlines.

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13h ago

Hey, what did you build instead of doing sales this week?

This week I rewrote our feature descriptions. Again. Third version.

What I didn't do was write to the eight people who said "ping me when it's ready" three weeks ago.

And I guess that editing copy gives me a finished thing at the end of the day. Sending those eight emails gives me eight chances to be ignored, and no way to tell if I did it well or badly.

Building always feels like progress. Selling only feels like progress in hindsight. So I hope it's not laziness.
What was yours this week? 

Are your backend services authenticated or just trusted by default?

most teams spend a lot of time thinking about user authentication. who can log in, how, with what credentials.

and then the services behind the scenes just... trust each other. because they're on the same network. because they're in the same VPC. because nobody questioned it when the architecture was first drawn up.

🧪 Where to find alpha testers?

One of my young and enthusiastic maker followers recently asked me for advice on finding alpha testers.

And honestly I realized I m not the best person to answer this one =D

We built RunEvr inside an animation studio, so our team of artists naturally became our first alpha testers.
We had a real product, a real team, and a real workflow to test it on from day one.

So I couldn t really give advice based on my own experience.

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