Merle Bennett's profile on Product Hunt

About

I am the Head of Projects at AMAKA Studio, a digital platform that showcases the best of African creative talent and culture through an online annual magazine. With over two decades of experience in producing photography, radio, TV, and digital content for advertising, I have a strong network of global creative talent and suppliers, as well as a keen eye for quality and innovation.

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3d ago

Agent teams that can be opened and examined: does this affect your trust in them?

The newsletter on Monday highlighted a launch that centered on agent teams that could be opened up to find out where things had gone wrong. This sentence has stayed with me all week.

Most of the demonstrations with agents focus on the final output. But the part that interests me is the failures. If an agent chain produces a wrong answer, then I have no clue where along the way something has gone wrong: was it during the retrieval, the function call, or an incorrect assumption made three hops back?

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8d ago

What software have you stopped buying silently this year?

In the previous quarter, I cancelled four subscriptions that I expected to miss at least two of them. I did not. The subscription I expected to feel the most pain from was the heatmap tool I have been paying for since 2023, which I opened twice in six months.

What filled the void was pretty mundane. It is a shared spreadsheet, a calendar reminder for each week, and a practice of watching five user sessions every Friday. The price is zero, and I take actions based on what I observe.

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1mo ago

My time zone assumption cost me a customer but I discovered this after six weeks

Our scheduled reports are sent out at 9am. This logic was written in a laptop configured to my personal time zone and never touched again.

One customer from Auckland got her weekly report at 10pm Monday night, and she needed it for her Monday standup. She didn t say anything about it. All I know is that she downgraded, and in the cancellation reason field there was "not quite right for us."