Jean Kang

About

Over the last decade, I led impactful programs at companies like LinkedIn, Pinterest, & Figma. What I did have was strategy, storytelling, and a clear sense of how to articulate my value. That’s how I landed multiple 6-figure Program Manager roles at top tech companies not by following the “traditional” path, but by leaning into my superpowers. What if I used the same skills that helped me thrive in Big Tech… to build something of my own? I owned my story, built with intention and shared learnings in public. I started creating content in 2023 and in 2 years, built a community of 500K+ across LinkedIn, Instagram, and my newsletter. My mission is to democratize access to tech careers + empower folks to design a career, business & life they love especially in this era of AI.

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10h ago

How are you planning your roadmap and marketing in the AI era?

Everyone uses AI now. To code. To write. To ship faster. But planning still feels stuck in the old days. Roadmaps get built on guesswork. Marketing means posting and hoping.

I am following spec driven development. I write the specs first. Every feature, every decision, ties back to it. It keeps me from drifting into random ideas mid build. My roadmap comes from that spec, not from gut feeling.

I use the same thinking for marketing. I write down what I'm building, who it's for, and why it matters. Before I post anything.

So I'm curious. How are you planning your roadmap right now? Do you have an actual system, or are you winging it like most of us?

The anonymous traffic problem

This is still the strangest part of running a website to me.

Analytics tells you a session happened. Maybe a country. Then the person is gone and you have no idea if they were a buyer, a competitor, or a bot.

We started tracking which companies land on our own site and my first reaction was not excitement, it was regret. There were names in there I would have replied to that same morning if I had known.

When someone visits your site and leaves without filling anything in, do you try to figure out who they were, or do you let it go?

Naseem, 24 hours later: #21 and first customer

Yesterday, Naseem finished its first day on Product Hunt:

#21 Product of the Day 76 upvotes 57 followers

And today, Naseem got its first paying customer at the $29 launch price.

What surprised me: the first customer was a company, not an indie developer. I wasn t expecting that this early.

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