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Is your idea a product or a feature?
Is your idea a product or a feature?
The median consumer downloads zero new apps in a given month; however, we’re spending more time on our phones than ever. What does this…
Zach Abrams
Mar 12, 2016
Quartz is novel, not great.
Quartz is novel, not great.
Thoughts on where conversational UI will and should go.
Zach Abrams
Feb 12, 2016
Messaging is just getting started
Messaging is just getting started
Messaging is changing dramatically — in 2016, it’s probably one of the most exciting spaces. We’re seeing Whatsapp hit 1B users, FB…
Zach Abrams
Feb 3, 2016
The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells them.
The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells them.
Last weekend, I built a bot. I wanted to experiment with the Slack API, and see if maybe I could build something useful. I thought it’d be…
Zach Abrams
Jan 27, 2016
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‘Instant’ Delivery is Niche Product
2015 was the year of “instant delivery” investment and hype. Amazon, Google, Uber and others began throwing resources at the ‘problem’; and…
Zach Abrams
Jan 26, 2016
Consumer Messaging Revenue Playbook
tl;dr Consumer messaging monetization will be impossible for most. Today, almost all strategies rely on becoming the default messaging…
Zach Abrams
Jan 25, 2016
Bots, Fin, the Return of Optimism, and other things learned this week.
Bots are both very disappointing and incredibly exciting I spent a good amount of time this weekend hacking on a Slackbot. I wrote a few…
Zach Abrams
Jan 24, 2016
I built a bot this morning … it took an hour
I’m not technical. I’m a PM with mediocre engineering skills, at best. This morning, I built a Slackbot in about an hour.
Zach Abrams
Jan 23, 2016
Bots will be huge if ….
There’s a bot that helps me post gifs; one that gives me restaurant recommends; one that reminds me to leave for the dentist; and one that…
Zach Abrams
Jan 22, 2016
We need better financial management software
Mint is dying a slow death at the hands of Intuit. And as a result, it feels like nothing exists to adequately help me manage my finances…
Zach Abrams
Jan 21, 2016
DoorDash, FourSquare, Square … the 2016 trend is scary
Late last year, DoorDash went out to raise a new round, headlines included: Food Delivery Startup DoorDash Set to Be Valued at $1 Billion…
Zach Abrams
Jan 20, 2016
Positivity bias and how it applies to software.
I love to surf. I do it as much as possible. However, when I really think about it, my average trip out to sea is just okay — I spend most…
Zach Abrams
Jan 19, 2016
Letter From Birmingham Jail
I went to a liberal arts university that doesn’t recognize MLK day. I lived in a state where our senators fought a MLK holiday, questioning…
Zach Abrams
Jan 18, 2016
Oil, Markets, DoorDash, Bitcoin, New York Values, and other important things from this week.
2016 is off to an … interesting … start. Here’s what happened this week, and my it’s important.
Zach Abrams
Jan 17, 2016
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