Karthik Narayan

Father, Husband, Product Manager, and F1 fan. Used to dabble in photography and food. Co-founder and former contributor to @uberdesi. Tweets are my own.

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

As product builders, we face a critical choice during inception - appeal a large number of users or pare down the offering to a very narrow user base.

A smart product manager always picks the latter because she is aware of the Paradox of Specificity.

Here is a 🧵

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

Procrastinators rejoice!

[Gael Breton @GaelBreton]

This is OpenClaw for grown ups.

It can do 90% or what OpenClaw does in a 90% more secure way 😇.

Very impressed so far.

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

@sampullara By that measure, the PM flex should be the number of failed features or even entire products one has shutdown.

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

@WavefrontHQ @joshelman So this is my experiment: Build something real.

Not a to-do list or a grocery list.
Use AI throughout the process.
Share what I learn.

Because sometimes the best product research is simple:

Drink your own champagne.

This time I'm also making it.

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

Most of us who product managers are about to lose touch with our users.

AI is changing how products get built. So I’m doing something slightly uncomfortable to understand it.

I’m building a product, myself.

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

@WavefrontHQ @joshelman My goal is simple: Understand where AI actually helps and where it doesn't.

Where it speeds things up and where it introduces new problems.

Where you still get stuck and how to get unstuck.

And boy did I burn tokens like they grew on trees.

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

"Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will be reset at 8 AM"

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

The schedule cleared up for the weekend and I figured I'd attend the PM course by @shreyas, but Maven tells me the deadline has passed for registration. Alas! such is life.

[VMware Marketplace @vmwmarketplace]

#VMwareMarketplace uses @WavefrontHQ and @getsentry to proactively monitor and fix issues - BEFORE they become production problems. Learn more in this blog from @goelarunk .

cc: @virtualmilin

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

@PriyanshSingara Thanks, @PriyanshSingara

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

As product builders, we face a critical choice during inception - appeal a large number of users or pare down the offering to a very narrow user base.

A smart product manager always picks the latter because she is aware of the Paradox of Specificity.

Here is a 🧵

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

@mishralokk Thanks, @mishralokk

It's always amazing to see first principles work and how the smart folks always come to the same conclusion.

[Kevin Yien @kevinyien]

1/ The old Reid Hofffman saying is "if you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late". It still holds today but I want clarify some things I've learned over the years.

[Karthik Narayan @_karthiknarayan]

@cool_idea Totally. This is a great example. Thanks for sharing, @cool_idea

What's interesting about this one is that they started with a broader use case/target audience and then narrowed it down to a niche.