Between Slack channels, Teams groups, WhatsApp threads, and Telegram I feel like I'm in a constant catch-up loop and I still miss things. Curious if this is just us or if it's universal. What's your actual number, and have you found anything that helps?

My team just went through choosing an analytics tool for a pre-launch product. We found out "which tool to use" is turn out to be "what stage are you". Here are four tools we seriously evaluated:

• PostHog Pros: generous free tier is awesome, session replay is a powerful feature. Cons: dashboards feel rough at small sample sizes, and the all-in-one breadth means some features are shallower than dedicated tools.

• Mixpanel Pros: best-in-class funnel and retention analysis, clean UI makes non-technical teammates to easily use. Cons: gets expensive fast past the free tier, no session replay natively, event taxonomy needs discipline upfront.

• Amplitude Pros: the most powerful behavioral cohorting, built for scale. Cons: you'll spend more time configuring than learning, and pricing is unacceptable for startup.

• GA4 free and everyone has it, but it's built for marketing attribution, not product behavior. Fine as a complement, painful if you use it as the main lens.

Conclusion: if you only have dozens to hundreds of users, the tool choice matters less but the price matters more. We went with PostHog because replay and event in one place fits our stage. Curious what others picked at the earliest stage?

Today, I read in Techcrunch that India has an ambition to "compete" with the US and China in the startup scene:

India has updated its startup rules to better support deep tech companies in sectors like space, semiconductors, and biotech, which take longer to mature.

I tried to pick a few that help me with work (e.g. summarising something, fixing or improving the process).
Here are my must-haves:

• Buyerstage  bookmarking LinkedIn posts

• ColorZilla to pick colours from websites (a must for graphics work)

• Grammarly  grammar checking and grammar correction

• Save Tweets Forever  bookmarking Twitter posts

• SimilarWeb for a quick overview of website stats

• SurfPal a time tracker to keep screen time in check

• TidyRead  AI summarising texts from websites

• Tweet Hunter analysing Twitter posts and profiles

Of course, I have more, but these are essential to me.

We expected users to ask for more features.
Instead, they kept asking for fewer steps to complete the same task.
That changed the way we think about product development. Adding functionality isn t always progress. Sometimes removing friction creates much more value.
Has customer feedback ever completely changed the direction of your product?

This all goes back a bit to the era of NFT, virtual reality, when, during COVID, we went to virtual events, had VR glasses and promised ourselves that we would spend more time in some digital parallel reality online.

Well. So Facebook, with a growing portfolio and a new vision, renamed itself Meta.

That it would be the Metaverse.

I support structured, high-value discussions nobody wants forums filled with spam and self-promotion. But here s the issue: understanding what qualifies as valuable.

Product Hunt s updated guidelines push for original, engaging, and non-replicable content. Makes sense. But when posts disappear without clear reasoning, it creates confusion.

• Where s the line between sharing insights and self-promotion?

• What defines a post as high-value in this new system?

• Why not offer feedback instead of outright removals?

Stronger moderation is great if paired with transparency. Instead of guessing what works, clearer guidelines and examples could help everyone create better discussions.

My longest experience started in a startup with @minimalist phone: reduce your screentime . (originally a digital detox app for Android, then iOS).

From a marketing perspective, the following worked best for us (almost always):

• paid ads

• UGC videos (also as paid ads)