Karthik Narayan

As product builders, we face a critical choice during inception - appeal a large number of users or pare down the offering to a very narrow user base. A smart product manager always picks the latter because she is aware of the Paradox of Specificity. Here is a 🧵

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

Procrastinators rejoice!

@sampullara By that measure, the PM flex should be the number of failed features or even entire products one has shutdown.

the real flex of any developer

@WavefrontHQ @joshelman So this is my experiment: Build something real. Not a to-do list or a grocery list. Use AI throughout the process. Share what I learn. Because sometimes the best product research is simple: Drink your own champagne. This time I'm also making it.

@WavefrontHQ @joshelman My goal is simple: Understand where AI actually helps and where it doesn't. Where it speeds things up and where it introduces new problems. Where you still get stuck and how to get unstuck. And boy did I burn tokens like they grew on trees.

Most of us who product managers are about to lose touch with our users. AI is changing how products get built. So I’m doing something slightly uncomfortable to understand it. I’m building a product, myself.

The schedule cleared up for the weekend and I figured I'd attend the PM course by @shreyas, but Maven tells me the deadline has passed for registration. Alas! such is life.

#VMwareMarketplace uses @WavefrontHQ and @getsentry to proactively monitor and fix issues - BEFORE they become production problems. Learn more in this blog from @goelarunk . cc: @virtualmilin

@PriyanshSingara Thanks, @PriyanshSingara

@_karthiknarayan Beautiful thread karthik, loved it :)

As product builders, we face a critical choice during inception - appeal a large number of users or pare down the offering to a very narrow user base. A smart product manager always picks the latter because she is aware of the Paradox of Specificity. Here is a 🧵

@mishralokk Thanks, @mishralokk It's always amazing to see first principles work and how the smart folks always come to the same conclusion.

@_karthiknarayan Beautifully culled Also, in the Tweet no 9, 11, 13 the trio said the same thing in one or other way. 😋

1/ The old Reid Hofffman saying is "if you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late". It still holds today but I want clarify some things I've learned over the years.

@cool_idea Totally. This is a great example. Thanks for sharing, @cool_idea What's interesting about this one is that they started with a broader use case/target audience and then narrowed it down to a niche.

@_karthiknarayan Justin.tv decided to narrow their focus on gamers, specifically StarCraft gamers, now we've got Twitch. You can't build all the features for all humans.