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How to Avoid Product Autopsies(craigsnewsletter.substack.com)
1 points by watsonc73 5y ago|0 comments
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by watsonc73 5y ago
Thanks, yeah agreed on the discipline itself. You'll usually find a few errors in your plan if you take the time to think it all through.
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by watsonc73 5y ago
I just published a Substack on how to score your product ideas like a VC. This one definitely comes from the heart having spent years building things that not enough people wanted. So I put together a simple model on Google Sheets which hel
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Score Product Ideas Like a VC(thewhitespace.substack.com)
3 points by watsonc73 5y ago|3 comments
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Quantum Thinking and Product Development(thewhitespace.substack.com)
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by watsonc73 6y ago
Hi HN! I've spent over a decade creating startups, some that went nowhere and some that succeeded (2 exits - Soundwave was acquired by Spotify, Retro Patents was sold on Shopify Exchange). I'm now helping other teams avoid buildin
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Launch HN: Product Buffs – frameworks to stop teams building the wrong thing(productbuffs.com)
11 points by watsonc73 6y ago|1 comments
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How to craft a compelling product vision and work backwards(thewhitespace.substack.com)
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Production Ready - A new substack newsletter on bootstrapped online businesses(productionready.substack.com)
1 points by watsonc73 6y ago|0 comments
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Great to hear. Thanks for the support.
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by watsonc73 9y ago
That was also a surprise to us too!
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Awesome suggestion! Sounds like a fun summer project.
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by watsonc73 9y ago
We're also fans of some of the classic inventions but we have a preference for modern products that still inspire. They're more relatable and it's cool when the actual patent authors are still alive as it makes the product&#x
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by watsonc73 9y ago
AFAIK we're the first to focus on the startup world. As flagged in the intro, we took our inspiration from a print of a motorcycle but wanted to flesh out the idea in the tech and gaming world which we love. We've also filed paten
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We actually split test this at the very start and the name variant won out. Seems like the majority of customers have a loyalty to the brand/product and preferred having the name. I guess art is subjective and
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by watsonc73 9y ago
There's a contact us section on the site where we collect all patent requests - please feel free to submit some!
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Thanking you kindly!
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Great idea - we'll look into this, thanks!
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by watsonc73 9y ago
You're right but we have spent a lot of time cleaning and tidying up the designs and formatting the final piece of art. I'd also add that our final product is of the highest quality and most local print shops couldn't give yo
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by watsonc73 9y ago
glad you like them and good choice :)
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Happy Friday! I'm the co-founder of Retro Patents and we're super proud to bring the site to the HN community. Last year, we were travelling in Europe and we came across a boutique print shop that had a Harley Davidson motorcycle
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Hey folks, founder of Activation Hacks here. I'd love your feedback on the site. I've spent a bit of time collecting as many behavioural nudges as I could find in the tech/product space. The goal of the site is to highlight t
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Show HN: Activation Hacks – Teardowns of popular apps using behavioral economics(activationhacks.com)
26 points by watsonc73 9y ago|5 comments
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by watsonc73 9y ago
If you like KurzweilAI I'd also check out Technically Sentient by Rob May and The Exponential View by Azeem Azhar. They're both great sources of info about the AI space.
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by watsonc73 9y ago
Got it, thanks for clarifying Patrick. That sounds like a fairly clear ethical line in the sand so kudos for taking that position. Good luck with the US launch :)
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by watsonc73 9y ago
I'm a fan of Stripe generally and loved the concept of Atlas when I first heard about it. I'd be slightly concerned about the commitment bias that might creep in though for startups who rely on Atlas for all their incorporation an
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by watsonc73 9y ago
+1 Sums up my point beautifully - to be clear I'm not trying to clamp down on free speech and would encourage reporters to "report" breaches like this. The main issue I have is that there's a first to post mentality with
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by watsonc73 9y ago
"I do not have an xbox one and cannot verify that the exploit indeed works. With that being said, there’s enough hints pointing to this being real so if you have an XBox running on the affected firmware, feel free to give it a try and
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Any fans of vintage patents prints (PageRank, IBM, Texas Instruments)?(techcrunch.com)
2 points by watsonc73 10y ago|0 comments
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by watsonc73 11y ago
In short yes but the approach I've seen work is less 'science' and more about judgement calls when analysing micro expressions. Without the base-line, it's hard to work out what a normal reaction is and what could potent

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