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I shipped three fixes to my product in seven days. All three came from readers.

Dev.to · Benjian Dai 📋 Product Management ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I shipped three fixes to my product in seven days. All three came from readers.

A reader pointed out my WTP measurement was wrong. Another said the verdict needed a glue layer to the next step. A third said my landing copy was being misread

I ran my idea-validation product through its own validator. The verdict was PIVOT.

Dev.to · Benjian Dai 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I ran my idea-validation product through its own validator. The verdict was PIVOT.

A founder runs his own AI idea validator on his own product. PIVOT, 68% confidence. Three critiques and a stranger pattern about when external feedback becomes

I shipped an AI pipeline in a month that reads Reddit, HN, and X for startup ideas. The hardest part wasn't the AI.

Dev.to · Benjian Dai 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

I shipped an AI pipeline in a month that reads Reddit, HN, and X for startup ideas. The hardest part wasn't the AI.

The five things that turned out harder than the LLM itself when building a real-user-pain mining pipeline — and the generalizable lessons from each.