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Product Talk
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Product Talk is the company blog at producttalk.org, writing about business and design. Since 2018, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Why Engineers Should Participate in Product Discovery”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Product Talk's product discovery articles, such as opportunity solution trees, continuous discovery and the ladder of evidence, as background for talking to users and prioritising work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Learn a structured and sustainable approach to building great products from Teresa Torres and the rest of the Product Talk team.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Engineers Should Participate in Product Discovery2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-13
- /opportunity-solution-tree/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-18
- Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Discovery to Align and Drive Outcomes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-19
- Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-19
- Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-13
What Hacker News says?
Interesting to read about the term "user stories" as narrative documents product managers hand off to devs so devs know what to build. (See also[0], found following links from OP.) Is anyone able to share such "user stories"? I'd love to see how these business needs get transmitted in the real world. Also - they're usually way longer than the one sentence referred to in these articles, right? [0] https://www.product…
Comment linking /2012/04/user-stories-are-better-than-prds/
on “The art of interrupting software engineers”Submitted Managing by Outcomes as a story · 90 points
HN discussionhttps://www.producttalk.org/2017/03/ladder-of-evidence/
Comment linking /2017/03/ladder-of-evidence/
on “Ask HN: How do you know what your users want?”Submitted Stop Validating and Start Co-Creating as a story · 47 points
HN discussionThis is really cool! Thanks for sharing! Looks like I have quite a bit of reading tonight because it links out to cool articles like this: https://www.producttalk.org/2019/02/prioritize-opportunities... A whole area of mapping!
Comment linking /2019/02/prioritize-opportunities/
on “Show HN: Sparel – a problem solving tool on steroids for decision-makers”Submitted A Look at the Discovery Tech Stack at 99designs as a story · 18 points
HN discussionPretty interesting! Reminds me of the opportunity solution tree framework in product development: https://www.producttalk.org/opportunity-solution-tree/
Comment linking /opportunity-solution-tree/
on “Show HN: Sparel – a problem solving tool on steroids for decision-makers”Submitted Opportunity Solution Trees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionContinuous discovery habits by Teresa Torres https://www.producttalk.org/2021/05/continuous-discovery-hab... And The mom test Are the ones I’ve used the most as a product manager trying to talk to customers every week.
Comment linking /2021/05/continuous-discovery-habits/
on “Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users?”Submitted The importance of focusing on one customer when evaluating opportunities as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"This might sound simple, but I think it’s harder than it seems to..." This 100% – There is so much nuance to getting this right. Aligning: Strategy (Business/Product) -> OKRs -> Opportunities -> Work is never done well. I'm working to solve this problem with https://vistaly.com – by taking a very visual (and connected) approach to the problem, which is where, in my experience, alignment starts to break down. I'm a…
Comment linking /opportunity-solution-tree/
on “How to articulate work against business objectives”Submitted Creating a Sustainable Continuous Discovery Practice at CarMax [Case Study] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.producttalk.org/context-rot this article summarises several papers that have explored this, and it does seem to be related to both the absolute number of tokens and the % of the window
Comment linking /context-rot
on “How Compaction Works in Pi”Submitted Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product Roadmaps: How the Best Product Teams Plan for Uncertainty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Does ChatGPT Work? A Guide for the Rest of Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Use Generative AI to Replace Discovery with Real Humans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Interview Snapshot: How to Synthesize and Share What You Learned as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Discovery to Align and Drive Outcomes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Product Trios Should Interview Customers Together as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Context Rot: Why AI Gets Worse the Longer You Chat (and How to Fix It) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ways to Use AI at Work and Build Your AI Product Toolbox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Web APIs: What They Are and How They Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Impact of Working in a Product Trio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Do You Do with Atypical Customer Stories? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from Miro to Jira Product Discovery for Opportunity Solution Trees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Look at Pendo’s Discovery Tech Stack as a story · 1 points
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