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What's something you used to do manually that you
would never want to go back to?
I'm especially interested in the small automations that
quietly save time every single week.
A small thing that makes me abandon a checkout:
Being asked to create an account before I can even see the final price.
Let me understand what I'm buying first. We can discuss accounts later.
Building something yourself means being the product person, support team, salesperson, and the person wondering why nothing is moving fast enough.
Some days you wear all four hats before lunch.
Which role do you find hardest?
If you had one extra hour every day for the next month,
where would you put it?
A-Learning a skill
B-Building something
C-Finding customers
D-Exercising
E- Just getting some breathing room
I'd love to see what people would choose.
Not every productive day looks impressive from the outside.
Sometimes it's fixing one annoying bug, replying to a difficult email, or finally making a decision you've avoided for a week.
Quiet progress still counts.
What's one thing you now do differently because you've
made the same mistake enough times?
Mine would be checking assumptions before spending
too much time building around them.
Hasham Shafiq retweeted
ZenStack is for growing teams that need capable
remote people without turning recruitment into a
second job.
From SDRs and appointment setters to social media
managers, the aim is to find someone who fits the work,
not just someone whose CV looks good.
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One thing I wish more product builders did: watch a real person use the product without helping them.
The urge to explain every button is strong.
Resist it. The confusion you observe is often more useful than the praise you hear.
A customer saying “I don't need this” can be more
useful than ten people saying “looks great.”
One tells you where the value isn't landing.
The other might just be being polite.
An underrated business advantage is being easy to deal with.
Clear pricing. Quick answers. No confusing process. No surprises after someone pays.
You don't always need to be the biggest option. Sometimes you just need to remove the friction.
Hasham Shafiq retweeted
What's a tool you tried to replace but ended up going back to?
Sometimes the old tool isn't the fanciest option. It just fits the way you actually work.
Hasham Shafiq retweeted
Some tasks are hard because they're complicated.
Others are hard because we keep putting them off until they become complicated.
I've been trying to catch the second kind earlier.
One thing I wish more product builders did: watch a real person use the product without helping them.
The urge to explain every button is strong.
Resist it. The confusion you observe is often more useful than the praise you hear.
Hasham Shafiq retweeted
A good remote teammate doesn't just send updates when you ask.
They tell you what's done, what's blocked, and what needs a decision before it becomes a bigger problem.
That one habit can change how a team operates.
Hasham Shafiq retweeted
I've become suspicious of features described as “game-changing.”
Show me the boring details instead.
What does it save me? What does it remove? What becomes easier after I use it?
That's where the value usually lives.