Ryan Valenzuela

There s a point where products stop being fully understandable.

Too many features
Too many dependencies
Too much history

And decisions start getting made with partial context.

A slightly uncomfortable question:

Are we still doing product discovery - or mostly validating decisions we already made?
As teams grow, processes get heavier, but it sometimes feels like real exploration gets lost.

We ve been thinking about how Athena could push teams
back toward actual discovery - not just confirmation.

How honest do you think discovery really is today?

3 months ago we launched Orange Slice on Product Hunt

and it should have been a huge moment for us

instead it was honestly one of the worst days I ve had building

not because people didn t show up
they did