Lifehacks: insights from people who build products

APIs have become an essential part of digital products we use every day without even noticing. Meanwhile, there are over 2.3 million API-related repositories on GitHub. What is an API? And why does everybody know the acronym, but only a few can explain it? In fact, APIs are everywhere. They work when you check the weat...

Quality assurance and quality control approaches are well-known across industries. Moreover, they are often combined into a single term. Hence, people in software development use the QA/QC notion to describe the entire quality evaluation strategy with no clear differentiation. But this can be hard for newcomers because...

It’s a great challenge to provide first-class remote communication. However, this is what will lead to the success of your business. If you aim to create a well-coordinated dedicated team, you should know why communication is important in remote companies. And some proven strategies сan help in this complex matter.  Wh...

If you plan to get a top-notch assistance from a custom software development company, it might be challenging because there are dozens of them. But is it really tough to do it? Fortunately, not. But some enterprises are tardy, squandering funds and offering products of questionable quality. And this approach just compl...

In recent years, the number of cyber attacks has been rapidly increasing. Moreover, there have been many new methods of carrying them out – viruses, ransomware, rootkits, spyware, user data cryptologists, and more. Cyber attackers have also become more subtle and increasingly target supply chains and company partners t...

The “new normal” is a hot topic across media channels, as we observe dramatic changes in people’s lives caused by the global pandemic. According to the State of Consumer Behavior 2021 by Raydiant, 40% of the interviewed visit physical locations less frequently, while 48% said they switched to the online alternatives of...

Product profitability directly depends on its quality. Creating successful products requires ensuring the highest quality standards. In fact, 88% of users are likely to abandon an app if they frequently encounter glitches and bugs. 80% of respondents churn within 90 days, according to another survey. Here’s why quality...

DevOps (stands for development and operations) is a methodology that helps developers communicate effectively with other IT professionals. It is a set of processes and tools that enables a company to build and improve products faster than traditional approaches to software development.  These numbers are truly impressi...

According to a study by Statista, the global BDA market is estimated at about $215 billion as of the end of 2021. This figure reflects the level of business involvement in learning new data processing models. Information today is valued above all else in commercial organizations. The profit of any company is directly r...

How is knowledge created in our world? We all studied at school and there, at the level of any natural science lesson, it is created through one process: When we make a product, we create knowledge about: We’re constantly losing focus on hypothesis testing and knowledge creation. One of the most important product skill...

If the client does not have a need that he can cover by purchasing our product, we will not have sales and, as a result, profit. If the client has a need, but our product does not solve the need very well. Then we can sell our product to the client through distribution, partnerships, marketing, but the cohorts will qui...

This topic is massive to pack it up in just one simple post with whole details. So we will split into a cycle of topics where we will try to talk deeply about customer development and how to make it. This is the first material where we will talk about How to talk with users. For the past 5 years, all over the industry,...