The Mobile Spoon

Exploring product management, entrepreneurship, user experience, and mobile development.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Figma acquired Dynaboard.

Why?

Dynaboard is a low-code web app builder.

Figma believes Front-End design & development one day will merge.

It is accelerating the course to that future.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Before OpenAI, AI wasn’t really AI, but startups claimed they’re doing AI.

Today, AI is real but most AI startups won’t make it because of OpenAI.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

If you want to see super-intelligent people playing dumb, send a bug reproduction to developers.

[The Mobile Spoon @MobileSpoon]

@GilBouhnick 😂

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

I analyzed tens of productivity products to understand what made them so successful.

Here’s what I found out:

It depends.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

People don’t adopt technology or protocols. They adopt products.

#entrepreneur #entrepreneurship

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Blockchain projects are a developer's dream: all the best tech and zero users to whine about it.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

People singing Happy Birthday to you is like an unskippable ad in real life.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Always be the hardest worker in the room.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Being in the right place, at the right time, with the right #product is not luck.

That's hard work.

#entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #startups

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

- Winston Churchill

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Sounds familiar?

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Do the right things vs. do the things right

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Overthinking makes you create fake scenarios that don’t exist.

Replace them with actions.
Even if you don’t feel 100% ready.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Always start with the “why”.

Sure, you’re sick of repeating it, but some of your employees need to understand the context before diving it.

#entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #startups #ProductManagement

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

To inspire people, don’t show them your super powers. Show them theirs.

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

Colleague’s attention to your work:

When you talk:
😴😴🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥

When you show a slide:
🥱🥱🥱🫥🫥🫥🫥

With a mock-up:
😲😲😲😲🫥🫥🫥

When you give them a beta:
🤔🤯🤢😤🤗🫥🫥

A minute before launch:
🥺😩🥳🤬🥰😱😝
🤮🤑😭😰🙃😘😟
🤒🤬😅😫😖😭🥳

#productmanagement

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

"More fiction has been written in Excel than in Word."

(A quote I just heard)

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

-- Winston Churchill

[Gil Bouhnick @GilBouhnick]

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

-- Winston Churchill