Product and building
Product discovery, MVPs and prototypes, engineering and design, product management, and technical material for founders who do not write code.
57 resources, each credited to whoever published it. Sub-headings are the topic each was filed under in its source collection.
Engineering & product design
- Bootstrapping Engineering Operations
- Design and Innovate Solutions That Achieve the Desired Performance by Prototyping to Learn
- Design for People, Use People Language
- Design for Startups
- Designing a Truly Great Product Requires Asking Yourself This Critical Question
- Swiftly Move Through Any Design Process With These Design Tools
- What is Design Thinking? · outlierspath.com
- What Startups Should Look for When Hiring a Designer
- Why Hire More Designers
MVP & prototype development
- Agile User Story / Product Backlog template
- An MVP Is Not a Cheaper Product, It’s About Smart Learning
- Building an MVP for Non-technical Founders
- Flavors of Prototypes · svpg.com
- Get Customer Feedback by Creating an MVP
- Getting the MVP Right
- How to Build an MVP · Y Combinator
- How to Iterate & Improve Your Product With Rapid User Testing
- How to Startup: Part 5 – Minimum Viable Product
- MVP Doesn’t Mean Anything · rein.pk
- The Next Feature Fallacy: The Fallacy That the Next New Feature Will Suddenly Make People Use Your Product · andrewchen.com
- The Pre-PMF Guide to Product Management · Growth Unhinged
Product
- A Path to the Minimum Viable Product — Steps for scoping and building a minimum viable product.
- Building a Tech Business as a Non-tech Founder: My Advice. — Advice on building a software business without a technical background.
- Building New Products/Product Strategy · Wes Kao — How to develop new products and set product strategy.
- Curious Language Model Limitations — Observations on where large language models fail.
- If Product Is Great, It Doesn't Have to Be Good · Paul Buchheit — Blog post arguing products win on strengths despite obvious flaws.
- Product Development Cycles Fundamentals · Y Combinator — Y Combinator material on build-measure-learn product development cycles.
- The Startup Founder’s Guide to Tech Stacks · Develocraft — Guide to choosing a technology stack for a startup.
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? · Stephen Wolfram — Long explainer on how large language models generate text.
Product discovery
- Building Product · Y Combinator
- Constant Readjustment vs Long-Term Commitment · Stanford eCorner
- Customer Development for Startups: What I Learned Talking to 500 Customers in 4 Weeks · groovehq.com
- Discovery – Excuses · svpg.com
- Discovery – Problem vs Solution · svpg.com
- How Customers Can Help You Build a Product They’ll Buy
- How to Build a Product
- How to Measure Your Product
- How to Structure Your Product Discovery Process
- Product Strategy and Product Discovery · romanpichler.com
- The Nature of Product
- Using GenAI for Better Product Discovery
Product management
- Empowered – Achieving Extraordinary Results With Ordinary People
- Good Group Project Manager / Dead Group Project Manager · khoslaventures.com
- Product Management at a Startup 101 · leighmariebraswell.substack.com
- Product Management Theater
- Product Visionary vs. Product Leader
- Product vs Feature Teams · svpg.com
- Scaling the Product Owner Role · romanpichler.com
- Why Products Don’t Succeed: The 7 Biases of Product Teams
Technical skills
- Advice for Founders Who Can’t Code
- Backend Web Development – A Complete Overview
- Frontend Web Development – A Complete Overview
- How the Internet Works for Developers – Part 1 – Overview & Frontend
- How the Internet Works for Developers – Part 2 – Servers & Scaling
- How to Over Engineer a Website // What Is a Tech Stack?
- Is It Still Worth Learning to Code? Amjad Masad Weighs In
- What Goes Into an MVP Tech Stack?
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