Posts tagged with product
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Aaron Francis shares how he used Claude to create an entire launch video for his new app, without using any traditional motion graphics software. No Remotion, no MCPs — just clever prompting and iteration.
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The true work is in building complexity into software, then thoughtfully editing and pruning it into something that takes a minute to learn, yet offers a lifetime of mastery for those who want to accomplish complicated things.
Read more [buttondown.com]
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It looks like full-breadth developers—people with both technical and product capabilities—stand to gain as clear winners in the AI era.
Read more [justin.searls.co]
Mailcoach is our premium mail service that allows you to send newsletters, build powerful email automation, and send transactional mail. It truly can cover all your mailing needs.
Unlike most competitors, we only price by the number of emails you send and not by how large your subscriber list is.
After having revamped our marketing pages last month, we’re launching our new beautiful UI for the app today. Let’s take a closer look at all the changes.
Let’s dive straight in; here’s what a list of subscribers now looks like.
If you’ve used Mailcoach previously, you’ll notice immediately that this screen has been redesigned from scratch. The colors, font, and general layout have all been updated to reflect the design we introduced to our marketing pages.
Behind the scenes, we use Filament to render those tables. We’ve highly customized how they look, so you don’t have the feeling you’re looking at the stock tables. Of course, every list has powerful sorting, search, bulk actions, and filtering options that you know and love from Filament.
Email automation is one of Mailcoach's most powerful features. Using automations, you can build up any email flow you might need. You might also know this as “drip campaigns.”
We’ve totally revamped how automations look. Here’s a simple automation that sends mail 10 minutes after someone signs up.
At Spatie, we use this feature to send a couple of emails during the trial period on Flare.
The real power of automations comes into play when using branching logic. For Flare, we’ll automatically invite people who are subscribed after two months since onboarding to our affiliate program.
Next to the hosted version of Mailcoach, we also offer a self-hosted version. This version has been updated as well. Because we need to update every view, we decided to tag it as a new major version. You’ll find the upgrade notes here.
With both the Mailcoach marketing pages and the Mailcoach app itself updated to the new design, we feel the Mailcoach platform is on another level now.
Take a look for yourself by starting a free 14-day trial.
Communication is an absolutely critical skill for product development. But it's hard and it requires practice and feedback.
Read more [thunk.dev]
We can’t possibly build products that are useful, let alone delightful, if we don’t frequently talk to the people who’ll use it.
Read more [www.markhamsq.com]
Our friends at Digital With You wrote a detailed case study on how they helped us redesign @OhDearApp They cover rewriting marketing text, choosing new colours, redesigning all pages.
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Some good advice by Michele Hansen
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Here's a new blog post by our designer Nick on how he's revamping the looks of Oh Dear.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Today, our team released Mailcoach, a beautiful, self-hosted mailing list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. It’s packaged as a stand-alone app, or can be integrated into a Laravel project, it's perfect for bloggers, artisans, and entrepreneurs.
Even if you're not in the market for an email solution, Mailcoach includes a video course on how it’s built. I'm sure you'll see some valuable techniques that you can bring to your own project.
In this blogpost, I'd like to share why and how we've built this.
Some solid advice for when you're building a product.
Build a product with the help of a hacker. Design it for the benefiter. Sell it to an expert.
Read more [uxdesign.cc]
This article by Jason Cohen contains some great tips on how to get started with your (hobby) project.
With SLC, the outcomes are better and your options for next steps are better. If it fails, that’s OK, it’s a failed experiment. Both SLCs and MVPs will have that result because the whole point is to experiment. But if a SLC succeeds, you’ve already delivered business value and you have multiple futures available to you, none of which are urgent.
Read more [blog.asmartbear.com]
Marty Cagan, who held jobs at eBay, AOL, Netscape and HP, describes the most important differences between good and bad product teams.
What I’ve learned is that there is a profound difference between how the very best product companies create technology products, and the rest. And I don’t mean minor differences. Everything from how the leaders behave, to the level of empowerment of teams, to how the organization thinks about funding, staffing and producing products, down to how product, design and engineering collaborate to discover effective solutions for their customers.
In the beginning of the year Wouter de Bres wrote this fantastic article on digital product design principles.
I wrote down twelve design principles for our team at Degreed to help us make design decisions. I tried to make them practical and clear and hopefully they are useful for anyone who is working on digital products.
https://medium.com/@WdeB/digital-product-design-principles-8bc9eb6c080c