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My first product launch in Product Hunt – 5 (+1) takeaways

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...

Be honest with your research tools

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...

Customer code coverage

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...
Keep John Tukey in mind when deciding your next product

Keep John Tukey in mind when deciding your next product

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...
A sure business – Jump on the bandwagon of the latest framework by a giant tech company

A sure business – Jump on the bandwagon of the latest framework by a giant tech company

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,...
Best productivity tool: improve your typing skills

Best productivity tool: improve your typing skills

by jordicabot | Sep 4, 2012 | learning, product development, stories entrepreneur

Each so-called expert has a different opinion on what to do to maximize your productivity but sometimes the solution is at your fingertips. And in this case, I say it literally. Most of the things we do involve typing. Obviously coding is an important one but just...
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