As a Product Manager, you should be visiting Hacker News regularly. Not to keep up to date on trends—but to understand The Engineer's Brain so you can better communicate with them. In this example, you can see that the The Engineer's Brain still believes that most people use websites and web browsers, not native apps.

Oct 30, 2023 · 4:00 PM UTC

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Replying to @nikitabier
Without naming names, I once worked with a senior engineering leader who threatened to quit on moral grounds for … phone number sign in being a massive breach of personal privacy
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This is a Canon Event when working at a big company.
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As an engineer, I know that I can use a router-based adblock system via either dnsmasq or even iptables ipset rule to block a constantly up-to-date list of domains and IPs associated with serving ads on the network level, so that they won't show even in apps.
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My favorite example of Engineer's Brain on Hacker News is the guy who comments on the Dropbox launch post and goes, "Why can't we just use rsync?"
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Why are non-engineers working as product managers in the first place? If you can't write code, you shouldn't be managing programmers at a software company imo.
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Chatgpt started out as a website that broke records for the fastest growing user base If the juice is worth the squeeze, people will use websites
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arent bookmark based dapps with decentralized data the new whatsup (???) i have a couple of experiments that are not technically a “website” yet navigation is thru a space rather than menus
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Native apps won on mobile and lost on desktop. For consumer products (focused on entertainment, consumption, communication), mobile is probably everything. But if you're B2B (most companies), desktop is probably more important. tl;dr - it depends on your product/business
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