👍 Product Daddy
Products don't fail from incompetence. They fail from cowardice.
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Verdicts — every product judged, scored, ranked. Mine included.| # | product | the verdict | score |
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| 1 | Sendlio | understands defaults better than most tools · jul 10 | 9/10 |
| 2 | Metricly | afraid of its own pricing page · jul 17 | 7/10 |
| 3 | Project one (mine) | fixing what I flagged · jun 30 | 6/10 |
| 4 | Onboardly | wastes your first ten minutes, calls it activation · jul 24 | 4/10 |
| — | Project two (mine) | launches aug · teardown on launch day | tbd |
Positions [link] — defended in writing. Dated ones get graded by time. Wrong calls stay up. record: 0–1 · 2 pending- Onboarding tours are an apology for bad design. [link]
- Most A/B tests are noise with a dashboard. [link]
- If your product needs a demo call, it isn't finished. [link]
- Dark patterns aren't clever. They're a confession. [link]
- "We're listening to users" is what teams say instead of deciding. [link]
- Most AI form-filler startups fold within two years. review jul 2027 [link]
- Usage-based pricing beats seats for dev tools. review dec 2026 [link]
Templates would carry marketplace growth in 2026. wrong — postmortem [link]
Ideas [link] — products I'm thinking about building next.- a changelog that reads like a person wrote it [thinking]
most changelogs are commit logs with punctuation. write one that admits what broke. [link] - pricing page linter [building]
paste a url, get every dark pattern named and ranked. fixed rubric, same as the board. [link] - onboarding autopsy service [thinking]
record the first five minutes of a product and mark the exact second users give up. [link]
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