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ProdPad
Company blog · prodpad.com/blogbusinessproductivity
ProdPad is the company blog at prodpad.com, writing about business and productivity. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “ProdPad – Build product roadmaps, manage ideas, and make users happy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link ProdPad's blog for product management writing, including an article on thematic, outcomes-based roadmaps. Other comments concern the site's design and the company's hiring.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ProdPad is the product operating system for customer-driven product management, helping teams shape strategy, understand feedback, and build AI-powered roadmaps.
Most-linked posts?
- ProdPad – Build product roadmaps, manage ideas, and make users happy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-28
What Hacker News says?
If a roadmap is a list of committed features, yeah, it's useless. A roadmap should be a clear articulation of your product vision and the problems to be solved to get there, not what you think today are the solutions. This is called a "thematic" roadmap or an "outcomes" roadmap. It is well described in this article: https://www.prodpad.com/blog/the-birth-of-the-modern-roadmap...
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on “Ask HN: How to properly manage a product roadmap?”Submitted Product Backlog Problems: Why Your Hierarchy Is Broken as a story · 30 points
HN discussionNice site design. You may want to take a look at a mixed-mode error you have -- there is a call being made to http://www.prodpad.com/wp-content/plugins/prettify-gc-syntax... -- you can probably just change it to https and clear that right up.
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on “ProdPad – Product Management Software”Submitted ProdPad – Product Management Software as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI doubt there a cli or "hacker" ways of creating a roadmap. For a dead simple roadmap you just need a bullet point list with the items sorted in the order you want to crack them. I do some personal goals and plans for the year in Evernote, which is to say, not a hacker way at all. But it works and I just need to sync between 2 devices. Trello, Spreadsheet, and Presentation are another good way to build a roadmap. Ag…
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on “Ask HN: How would you create a project roadmap and with which tools?”Submitted The Product Manager's Guide to Managing Technical Debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionProdPad is hiring developers! https://www.prodpad.com/jobs We’re building a product that’s used by thousands of product managers, and we’re a company full of product people ourselves. As such, we’re surrounded by smart people who challenge the way that amazing products are built – we’re constantly striving for the best product management practices ourselves, and aren’t afraid of trying crazy things to improve the pr…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted The Danger of Bottom-Up Roadmaps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ethics in AI: The New Frontier for Product Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The UX Behind ProdPad's Magically Extending Free Trial (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Onboarding: The UX Behind Our Magically Extending Free Trial as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ProdPad – Build product roadmaps, manage ideas, and make users happy as a story · 1 points
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