ProductBrew is where Anna interviews the people who decide what software gets built, and turns each conversation into decisions you can reuse.
Heads of product, CPOs, founders, engineering and design leaders, each interview built on the same six questions so you can compare how great teams decide.
Every Tuesday and Friday. Every link goes to the original source and every number was checked. How we check
Mind the Product defines the Forward Deployed PM: employed by a vendor, embedded in a customer's organisation, paired with a Forward Deployed Engineer. The pattern traces to Palantir around 2010. The pull is AI: value appears only once a model is wired into a customer's data, workflows and people.
The CRA covers hardware and software products with digital elements sold in the EU. Full obligations apply from December 2027, but the first reporting requirements began in September 2026. Products must meet 13 requirements, including secure defaults, being updatable when a flaw is found, and letting customers delete or move their data.
Andy Peatling argues the product-centric view, where every task must route through your app, has an expiry date once agents work across all of a person's tools. A person-centric product opens its capabilities to any agent and still brings its UI components, expertise, data moat and follow-through.
Ten awards a year for software product craft, judged blind by seven jurors. No entry fees, no badges for sale. Nominate a product or a team, never your own.
Why Netflix shows every member a different poster for the same title, and the one rule the system obeys
Open →How Airbnb turned 800 million search sessions into listing embeddings, and the trick that handles brand-new listings
Open →How Amazon's “customers who bought this also bought” works, and what it deliberately ignores at request time
Open →Leading a product team with a story worth telling? Anna would like to hear it.