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?

Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Not everyone has a knack for marketing, content creation, community building, or other techniques. When it comes to marketing, what have you found to be the best tools and strategies to market your product when it's not your strength?

During today s standup meeting, an idea came up about improving our presence on Reddit (for LLM search visibility and similar reasons).

One of the suggestions was to look for high-karma accounts and possibly buy them to appear more credible when posting and mentioning the product within the posts/comments. It s a tactic, sure, but to me it already feels like it crosses an ethical line. I sometimes worry they can seriously damage a company s reputation.

AI is incredibly good, I d even say almost perfect.

And for many people, that uniformity of perfect templates is starting to feel annoying.