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Latest — 18 Nov 2025

What is success?

You built a product and had your first release. You had some customers. You had a seed round. You had a small team. You worked hard. Things grew. You had a Series A. A few years passed. You had very hard times. You had good times. Now you have hundreds

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Zero-bugs policy is a myth

Zero-bugs policy sounds great — but it’s a myth. Even top projects have bugs. Fix the critical 80% instead of chasing every tiny issue.

SaaS Ethics Manifesto

Some SaaS tools give off good vibes (Notion, Ghost), others bad vibes (Motion, ClickUp). Why? It all comes down to ethics

Malleable Software: code → low-code → no-code

After my last post Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World many people assumed that I was talking about code-level tools only. But it is not exactly right, malleability lives on multiple layers — from raw code to low-code to no-code. There are several categories of malleable tools with different abstraction

Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World

In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you. Let's take Linear. It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI thrives in messy, open-ended

Emigration

My psychotherapist (my wife) told me I need to write. “What should I write about?” I asked. “It doesn’t matter, just write. When you write, you feel better,” she answered. For the last four years, writing hasn’t come easily. Since August 2020. Writing has been heavy, to put

Dissatisfaction leads to progress. Doesn’t it?

I am not often satisfied with any results: not of my own work, not my teams’, not that of the company as a whole or each individual person in it. When someone shows me something, I usually go: ”Well, that’s not quite my tempo.” Alright, I don’t throw

Startups and near-death experience

Startups are hard 🐝. Nobody has a ready recipe for a successful startup. It’s like life. Nobody has a ready recipe for a fulfilling, happy and successful life neither. Few startups are successful from day one and never really struggle. Most startups do struggle and die. But I think that

Use networks to prioritize product features

Features prioritization is the hardest problem in product management. There are many techniques that might help and I’ve tried them all (with no great success). I think something important is missing. In a nutshell, these techniques are just linear models that work as good (or as bad) as intuition

Automations Concepts Overview for No-code Tools

Almost any serious no-code tool should have automations at some point. Automation is bread and butter of a useful system that help people be more productive. First stage is data collecting for sure, but second is automation. We are thinking about automations in Fibery, since it seems data collection problem