by jordicabot | Nov 27, 2023 | philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
Building quick and dirty applications is getting easier and easier. But building reliable and mature ones is as difficult as ever. If not more given the increasing expectations of clients after seeing all the flashy demos going around. One example: there are now tens...
by jordicabot | Nov 3, 2019 | marketing, product development, productivity, stories entrepreneur
Yesterday, we launched Xatkit on ProductHunt. This is the first time ever I’ve tried to launch a product in PH. And while there is plenty of advice on how to thoroughly prepare your PH launch and maximize your chances of success, we followed none. Being a...
by jordicabot | May 2, 2019 | Research Rants, doing research, product development
Most research teams produce a considerable amount of research prototypes and proof-of-concept tools. Quality of these tools is usually low (they may lack documentation, tests, don’t scale,…) and most are abandoned after the paper for which the tool was...
by jordicabot | Jan 8, 2017 | customers, philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
The notion of code coverage is well known in software testing. In short, it computes how well the test suite you are using to test the quality of the code covers all parts (statements/conditions/…) of that code. Obviously, the higher your code coverage the lower...
by jordicabot | May 5, 2013 | philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
These last weeks, we have had a lot of back-and-forth discussions to decide our next product. As you already know there are hundreds of papers / books /methods to choose the right niche and product but one single sentence was always in my mind during the whole...
by jordicabot | Feb 27, 2013 | business model, philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
Having crazy product ideas is not usually a problem for want-to-be-entrepreneurs but if you want to play it a little bit safer my advice would be to wait for the new technology/langauge/framework published by any of the big-tech companies (Facebook, Google, Amazon,...
