Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268
Tobias van Schneidervanschneider.com
Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268
As competition intensifies, founders rush to get their products out into the market. Product teams literally work in sprints. Craftsmanship was replaced with growth hacks. It's not just the software itself that lacks personality; has every tech company hired the same illustrator? Our once so lively dreams have become positively lifeless.
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To get Amazon onto people’s phones and change how people shopped online, you didn’t need to build a whole new device. You just needed a really great app that would live on everybody else’s devices. I told him: I wouldn’t make the phone. He made the phone. I didn’t get the board seat. When it launched, the Fire Phone did everything he had
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The underlying appeal in software as a business is scale . With zero marginal costs, you can build your product just once and put it in the hands of billons. The goal is scale, and the strategy is growth.
But this strategy of endless growth cuts against one of the fundamental... See more
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