Reforge Artifacts - Real work product from those who have done it before

Hi Hunters! 👋 First of all, I’m thrilled that the waitlist is over for Reforge Artifacts. You can use it for free. We spend too much time on work that reinvents the wheel. The less time we spend on that, the more time we can spend building new and unique things. Introducing Reforge Artifacts - real work from leading operators who have done the work. You can do a few things with Artifacts: 1. Find ready-to-use resources that are directly applicable to your work. 2. Gain valuable insights from experts who share the story, lessons, and nuances behind each artifact. 3. Save and collaborate on artifacts with my colleagues, accelerating our work together. 4. Customize and remix artifacts to suit my specific needs, saving time and effort. Here are some of my favorites: 
 Growth team strategy & vision at Patreon by Adam Fishman https://www.reforge.com/artifact... Brand Positioning Doc from Vimeo by Zoe Black https://www.reforge.com/artifact... Product Spec for Notifications Experiment at Duolingo by Jackson Shuttleworth https://www.reforge.com/artifact... Vision Roadmap at Coursera by Tom Willerer https://www.reforge.com/artifact... Growth Process Map at Snyk by Ben Williams https://www.reforge.com/artifact... The idea for Artifacts was inspired by personal behavior. I had other founders and growth leaders constantly reaching out to me for example experiments, strategy docs, job descriptions, you name it. When I shared the real thing vs some blank template, I could see the light bulb go off in others' heads. Since starting this project, I’ve leveraged a bunch of Artifacts from others and integrated them into Reforge. I hope it is helpful for others! You can sign up now on the Reforge website for free.

This simply needs to exist. And the execution so far by the Reforge team is fantastic! Developers have GitHub, designers have Dribbble, but that leaves everyone else with no real platform to share their work. Artifacts allows the rest of us focused on product, growth, marketing and more to have a place to find and share our work product in the form of favorite tactics, frameworks, resources, etc. Really looking forward to seeing Artifacts grow and become an indispensable network.

Congratulations for the launch! The nature of the content (artifacts) is impressive. Obviously you can't reveal it, but I'm struggling to guess how you could convince people/companies to share some of their internal processes or templates with the details.

Knowing what good looks like is a cheat code for anyone trying to create these artifacts in their company. So impressed by the willingness to share across these and props to Reforge for bringing this level of visibility to these best practices across critical docs for company success.

so it's like a collection of projects that "experts" have completed and you can use as a reference? This is a great idea for those building physical products because there are so many potentials "gotcha's" that one can run into and learning from a previous maker can save hours if not years of wasted effort. Great idea!

Excited to be able to contribute. I love this concept.

This is really great stuff 👍 I look forward to spending an hour or two on Sunday's going through the Artifacts recommended by the weekly newsletter. Has the perfect balance b/w interesting & actionable reads - invariably end up sharing these with colleagues at work!

For having built a whole set of templates over the years, 95% of the time, people think they want templates, when what they really need is exactly this, real life examples, with an inspiration on how to apply it. Brilliant, great move @bbalfour!

Congrats @bbalfour @danwolch and team on the wider launch!! Artifacts is a game changer for operators in product growth, marketing and engineering. Such a comprehensive library of work to learn from, take inspiration from, and accelerate your own initiatives. Proud to have shared a bunch of artifacts on the platform and hope they prove useful to folks! https://www.reforge.com/profiles...

Congrats on the launch! I swear I saw this launch a few weeks ago, but maybe my mind is playing tricks on me lol. Love the previews, signed up (can't recall if I did for the waitlist lol) and will be reading more! congrats again!

Amazing tool. There is so many templates and sources of inspiration over there. So much I would appreciate a bit more curation (or help in discovery ;)

Yes!! I can now use this in my new team member's onboarding plan and training!

When I started out in Product Management, I used a lot of frameworks without understanding the context behind them. This led to force-fitting frameworks more than getting the job done. Artifacts show you how work gets done by operators in Orgs big and small and for different contexts. My aha moment was when I saw a (real)Onboarding experiment from Ngrock with comments from the author on the thought process behind certain parts of the experiment. Honestly, I can't wait to see more operators around the world showing off their work. Congrats on the launch!

These artifacts are so incredibly useful - and, in my experience, utterly unique in the realm of professional education. Instead of solely abstract knowledge, you get concrete, real-world examples of principles that you can learn from and build upon. Just a glorious confluence of professional accomplishment and goodwill.

Artifacts is such an incredible collection of true work that you'll ever find. It helps you get past the "ideas" of how to approach something and actually see how it's been done. Already been a huge asset!

I really like this UI. Lately, there are too many that are overly simple.

Starting from scratch is something that I often really struggle with, so I'm very excited to try these out!

I've published a dozen artifacts on Reforge and used even more. It's an incredible product that I'm amazed hasn't existed before now. Reforge is the absolute best team to build it and the product is top notch. Congrats @bbalfour @danwolch and team!

The Mercury team has been using Reforge for a while + we got set up with Artifacts back in July. Love this new direction to help with the tactical pieces of product work. Reforge has been great for my career. I've taken 3 cohort-based classes (Growth Series, Advanced Growth, and Product Leadership) and still use their frameworks every day. I can't recommend them enough to all disciplines – product, design, eng, data science, marketing, and more. Now it's even more accessible to get started with a tactical problem you have. Congrats on the launch @bbalfour + @danwolch!

Kudos to Reforge for providing a valuable resource for professionals across various fields!