👍 Product Daddy

Products don't fail from incompetence. They fail from cowardice.

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Verdicts — every product judged, scored, ranked. Mine included.
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1Sendlio understands defaults better than most tools · jul 109/10
2Metricly afraid of its own pricing page · jul 177/10
3Project one (mine)fixing what I flagged · jun 306/10
4Onboardly wastes your first ten minutes, calls it activation · jul 244/10
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: 01 · 2 pending
  1. Onboarding tours are an apology for bad design. [link]
  2. Most A/B tests are noise with a dashboard. [link]
  3. If your product needs a demo call, it isn't finished. [link]
  4. Dark patterns aren't clever. They're a confession. [link]
  5. "We're listening to users" is what teams say instead of deciding. [link]
  6. Most AI form-filler startups fold within two years. review jul 2027 [link]
  7. Usage-based pricing beats seats for dev tools. review dec 2026 [link]
  8. Templates would carry marketplace growth in 2026. wrong postmortem [link]

Ideas [link] — products I'm thinking about building next.
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