Feels like the first company to study is Amazon. They are super customer focused and they have actual content out there you can find where they talk about it in detail and what it means.
In the early days of Amazon they kept an empty seat in meetings to represent “the voice of the customer”, that’s how hardcore they were about it.
I love this thread! Relevant to this, I'm the Founder of a very early startup called Junto where we help people learn soft skills via audio courses. I've found soft skills to be absolutely critical to succeeding in your career, building better relationships with the people around you, and feeling generally happier and less stressed. Imo this is true for all roles, not just management or leadership.
I'd love for anyone interested to give our product a try and tell me what you think: https://juntohq.com/
Hi there, a friend and I are very excited to release a new education course we've created for instrumenting product analytics. We’ve both been building digital products for some time, and have been involved in the setup and management of product analytics. We’ve learned a lot about what not to do (the hard way), and about what sorts of strategies help make product analytics setup easier and more effective.
We created this course to help people understand how to do it right, so they can start to have more confidence in their data and leverage it more often when making product and business decisions.
We’d love to answer any questions and hear any feedback, including what you’ve found to be the hardest part of instrumenting product analytics on your team.
A way to motivate people (including myself) to exercise with a chat bot that tracks your progress.
Originally built it to track how often I worked out, and if I didn't, what the reason was and have that reported back to me regularly. Now I have a bunch of people using it, but as you can imagine, makes me zero dollars. Well, technically it costs me money so it makes me negative dollars.
This looks super interesting. I built out a spreadsheet of (very rough) projected financials for a business I was considering trying that was going to do something very similar; essentially gear rental for camping. I wasn't able to find a way to have it make sense as a solid business (margins were so tiny), but I still love this concept and would totally be a customer of a business that offered this. I'm moving to the Bay this month, maybe I'll give this a try! :D
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10. Technology is incredibly interesting. But I base my number off the fact that I'm always pretty involved in product/growth/strategy at companies where I do software engineering and I'm 90% of the time working on an interesting side project. I swap back and forth between working for a company (always a 10-50 person startup) and working on my own company. I think to truly get the most out of engineering positions, you want to be really involved in the crafting of the overall solution to the problem, rather than being told precisely what it is and then immediately starting on the engineering work that needs to meet a handed over "spec".
There's certainly some aspects of bullshittyness to it all, but I find it exciting. It's cool to see new ways of doing things coming into the industry and people trying to improve. I think when you start thinking that it's all or mostly all negative and "hype", then it's time to maybe look for a new role (I mean this in a very positive way - not trying to be rude here!). If you're 30+, have a ton of engineering experience and are starting to feel bored - look for maybe how you can leverage your years of skills and experience in a new role that you can really get excited about. Life works in chapters, being at the end of one (in terms of motivation/passion) isn't a bad thing. It just means you're ready for the next one.
Thanks so much! Honestly, I think I'm more excited about the landing page than I am the chatbot at times haha. I built it using http://tachyons.io and I'm not sure I've ever had more fun writing HTML/CSS. Definitely check out that CSS framework.
This sort of stuff is really interesting to me. I think any app/service can use ML though, it doesn't have to be a chatbot. I'm actually surprised we aren't already seeing more of this. I feel like most all fitness trackers are more concerned with the very specific details of your current workout (speed, heart rate, etc) but don't look at the wider trends across many days, weeks, months, etc.
If anyone has seen a service that does this, I'd love for you to share it here!
So the "friction" conversation about a product like this is pretty interesting imo.
One one hand, the bot is easy to get started with: Almost everyone already has the software (assuming Jumper works on multiple chat platforms) to get started right away with very little friction or commitment (no "signup" required).
On the other hand, once you are started - the chatbot interface is certainly higher friction than a traditional app would be (say, with two big buttons as you suggest).
But the while the app approach is lower friction once you've started, getting people to download and install an app is quite tough. Have you seen the latest data on how many apps the average American downloads in a month? It's zero!!! Crazy eh? So that barrier is one I wanted to avoid.
In the end though, the reason I chose the chat platform and the reason it is the final implementation for Jumper is that I've been super interested in the power of conversational interfaces and their ability to change human perception. Don't get me wrong - the "chatbot" craze is pretty exhausting to me too and I feel most chatbot products/services could have been built in a more traditional interface and have been far more successful. In fact, I built a failed chatbot for analytics not long ago. But when it comes to motivating people to exercise, I think having a conversation with an "exercise buddy" is more likely to get people to exercise. I mean, if I didn't believe that, I would have just used one of the currently available fitness apps and set up simple reminders. Of course, I may be very wrong here haha. But so far it's working!