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Deep: New API products and strategies explored
- Spotify recently cut off developer access from two of its APIs - Audio Analysis and Audio Features APIs.
- Product teams now have to evaluate API offerings through an AI strategy lens for determining API strategy.
- New API products released recently have been explored from companies like Palantir, Stripe, Telegram, Android, YouTube, etc.
- New strategic decisions clubs like Uber and Strava and how they are evolving are also analyzed.
- The disruption of AI to API strategy is evident from how it's shaping and influencing API products and decisions.
- Spotify's API shutdown for Audio Analysis reveals how companies are protecting their AI moats.
- AI integration into API products led to a 55% increase in user engagement at Pinterest.
- AI is used to identify and eliminate technical debt in API products, creating cost savings that can be passed to the users in cheaper API access.
- Companies are combining APIs, hardware, and AI to create entirely new product experiences.
- The entire analysis looks at over 20 different API products and strategic decisions made by top tier companies.
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Lenny's Newsletter
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How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)
- Rohini Pandhi, product leader at Mercury and co-founder of startup bootcamp Transparent Collective, shares insights on building the early product team, attracting top talent and going multi-product.
- Early on, founders should take on the product management role until they cannot do the job, says Pandhi.
- Signs that indicate it’s time to hire a product manager include bottlenecks in decision-making, confusion or overwhelm among the team engineering and design teams, and when businesses are diversifying into new product areas.
- Pioneers, town settlers and city planners are the three types of product manager recommended for different stages of product growth, according to the Wardley model.
- When hiring senior product managers, try to understand where they are on a career S-curve scale and tailor the job offer accordingly, says Pandhi.
- Pandhi recommends looking at de-risked opportunities when evaluating new products and to focus resources on fewer ideas rather than trying many new things at once.
- One way to evaluate market potential is to look for adjacent spaces near a product's core offering and to assess total addressable market and long-term revenue potential.
- When going multi-product, consider creating separate organisational structures for each new product to avoid the gravitational pull back to the core business and ensure each team has the resources to test and learn.
- Organisations should treat new product teams as seed-stage companies to enable quick learning and pivoting. Evaluate progress effectively but with sufficient time for learning.
- Multi-product expansion should focus on building products that customers love rather than optimizing for immediate revenue, says Pandhi.
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Dev
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How to Get Into Flow State Faster During Deep Work.⏰
- Getting into a flow state is one of the most productive feelings in the world, but it’s often hard to achieve.
- The biggest hurdle is the time spent setting everything up, which leads to procrastination or distractions.
- The solution is to remove all the friction by having tasks ready to go, using preset timers, and minimizing distractions.
- TaskQueue, a Chrome extension, simplifies the process with features like adding tasks, preset timers, and a clean interface.
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3 pieces of information you should never share in a Job interview
- Past Challenges or Job Search Struggles: Avoid discussing negative experiences or difficulties in previous jobs. Instead, highlight your enthusiasm for the role and how it aligns with your strengths and goals.
- Upcoming Leaves or Medical Needs: Don’t disclose planned leaves or accommodations early in the process. Wait until later stages when the employer is more invested in your candidacy to discuss potential adjustments.
- Focus on Benefits Over Role: Express passion for the work itself, not just perks or compensation. Show how your skills will contribute to the company’s success to leave a lasting positive impression.
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Streamline Your GitHub Issues: Custom Issue Templates Made Easy
- Managing issues in a GitHub repository can become overwhelming, especially when users submit vague or improperly categorized reports.
- GitHub's custom issue templates streamline the issue reporting process and ensure contributors provide all necessary details upfront.
- By using predefined templates, issues are consistent, categorized properly, and save time for both contributors and maintainers.
- The guide explains how to set up a repository, create configuration files and Markdown templates for bug reports, feature requests, documentation, and general reports.
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Dev
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Breaking Portfolio Paralysis: Why You Should Ship Your Side Projects
- The problem engineers face is not building, but shipping their side projects.
- Launching a side project exposes critical mistakes and offers valuable learning opportunities.
- User feedback creates immediate development priorities and motivates growth.
- Even failed launches provide valuable data points for improving architecture and scalability.
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Leadgrowdevelop
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Unlocking Efficiency: Rethink Your Factory Layout For Peak Productivity
- A poorly designed factory layout can lead to decreased productivity, increased costs, and stifled innovation.
- Efficient factory layouts result in accelerated production, increased precision, and synchronized operations.
- Key strategies for an effective layout include streamlined flow, space dynamics, adaptability, and worker priority.
- Optimizing factory layout leads to reduced cycle times, faster deliveries, and increased profits.
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How Changing Teams Can Accelerate Professional Growth at Amazon
- Adapting to different teams and projects can be a personal and professional challenge, but new opportunities promote growth and development.
- Networking remains key to adapting to new teams, meeting new people. Building professional networks can be helpful and aid in future transitions
- Holding oneself up to high standards can be challenging when adapting to new teams. Giving oneself enough time to learn and ask questions can be helpful
- Asking questions will be helpful to adjust to changing scenes and understand work relationships. It will also help to get up to speed quickly
- Different work environments have their distinct techniques, standards and processes. Learning about these differences will be helpful for future roles
- Exploring various problem spaces and expanding your thought process can be helpful to learn different ways of approaching solutions.
- It is important to challenge existing processes and suggest new ideas, but it is essential to understand team dynamics before proposing changes
- Switching teams means navigating difficult moments, but it guarantees growth professionally and personally. Embrace networking, knowledge transfer and exploration of different problem spaces to aid growth and development.
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Medium
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How AI Agents are Transforming Modern ERP Systems
- AI agents are transforming modern ERP systems, bringing intelligence and automation to a new level.
- CrewAI creates specialized task forces of AI agents for various roles, enhancing finance, supply chain, customer service, and cross-departmental workflows.
- OpenAI Swarm integration enables parallel processing power, speeding up market analysis, transaction processing, inventory optimization, and customer behavior analysis.
- Integrating Jarvis AI and Anthropic AI provides seamless communication, enhanced security, and ethical decision-making capabilities in BestSys ERP.
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Medium
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Boosting Productivity
- AI tools are transforming productivity by automating repetitive tasks, enhancing creativity, and enabling smarter decision-making.
- The top 5 AI tools redefining productivity are ChatGPT by OpenAI, Notion AI, Otter.ai, GrammarlyGO, and Synthesia.
- ChatGPT automates content creation, assists in debugging code, and offers personalized responses.
- Notion AI suggests templates, summarizes documents, and automates tasks for efficient collaboration.
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Making the Flow of Work Visible with Cumulative Flow Diagrams
- A Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) shows the cumulative amount of work items in various stages of a workflow over time.
- A CFD gives a full picture of workflow health and process stability, in contrast to burn-up or burn-down charts, which only track progress.
- You can create a CFD by tracking the cumulative items in each stage of your workflow at the same time every day, and charting that data on a stacked area graph.
- Most work tracking tools will automatically generate a CFD for you.
- It is ideal to track each of your major stages and any wait states they think might happen, to get clarity on processes.
- A CFD provides insights into productivity, identifying bottlenecks, and assessing process stability.
- It shows how much work has progressed over time, and how much is yet to be done, like a classic burn up chart.
- CFDs demonstrate lead time (the time taken for story delivery) and cycle time (time taken for work items to move from one stage to another).
- CFDs also allow us to see scope changes, whether they be increases or decreases.
- A CFD can help identify flow issues and bottlenecks; it shows us where to look more deeply, to resolve the issue by adding additional approvers or setting a clear SLA on approvals.
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Medium
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From Marble to Masterpiece: Actual, Potential, Action
- The article discusses the importance of three concepts - actual, potential, and action - in product management and creating tangible success.
- Actual represents the current situation or state, such as the current state of a product or available resources and infrastructure.
- Potential refers to the imagined future state of a work, like the envisioned sculpture from a marble block or the defined wireframe of a product.
- Action represents the steps or tasks needed to move from the actual to potential, like carving and shaping the marble for a sculptor or creating requirements in product management.
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Medium
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How to Manage Workload: 6 Suggestions
- When managing workload, it is important not to delay decisions as they accumulate and create pressure.
- Completing small tasks instantly can help reduce mental fatigue and increase productivity.
- Seeking additional information or consulting with relevant parties can aid in making quicker decisions.
- Addressing small tasks such as sending emails or checking screens promptly can prevent them from piling up.
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Dev
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Top Python Open Source Projects Not to Be Missed in 2025
- Python continues to dominate as one of the most popular programming languages in 2025.
- FastAPI remains a go-to framework for building APIs in Python, offering speed and developer-friendly design.
- PyTorch leads the machine learning frameworks with its intuitive design and strong community support.
- Pandas 2.0 enhances data wrangling with speed improvements and better support for modern data types.
- Django 5.0 offers a modernized version of the web framework with improved features and enhanced async capabilities.
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High-Performing Teams Focus On These 4 Areas to Remain Successful
- High-performing teams create clear values and principles that lead to empowered decision-making.
- The four pillars of high-performance teams are skills, context, trust, and continuous improvement.
- Adaptability is a cornerstone of successful senior professionals and should be defined by adaptability rather than tenure.
- Clear communication and learning initiatives like “slack time” create a culture of continuous learning, keeping teams current and engaged.
- Features that do not align with strategic objectives dilute focus and resources, so implementing a disciplined intake process ensures alignment with strategic goals.
- High-performance teams have shared goals, and clear communication of the “why” behind initiatives fosters engagement and results-oriented work.
- Psychological safety enables teams to share concerns, pitch ideas, and admit mistakes without fear. Shared accountability transforms “my success” into “our success,” enhancing cohesion and collaboration.
- Agile practices emphasize iterative cycles that rely on consistent reflection leading to high performance. Regular feedback loops enable teams to catch issues early and adapt effectively.
- Effective feedback loops require structured follow-through to enhance performance.
- Continuous improvement is an ongoing evolution that creates environments where teams take initiative, learn from mistakes, and align on meaningful goals.
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