Product manager in šŸ‡³šŸ‡± available for a new role from September • speaker, writer, and musician • blogs software product management/design • šŸ¦‹ @hilton.org.uk

Rotterdam, NL
Joined February 2008
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Startup idea: restaurant subscription model, e.g. one monthly meal, excluding drinks; price varies by number of diners. This solves the problem of not consistently spending more than you used to on a leisure activity, just music streaming services did by replacing CDs.
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Java is to JavaScript as ā€˜owner’ is to product owner
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I have once again met a Serbian, talked about ajvar šŸŒ¶ļø and bonded over knowing that the best brand is Grandma’s Secret šŸ˜€ Apparently, you can get the good stuff in Norway too šŸ‡³šŸ‡“
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A product’s public #API has two development phases: 1. Improve everything! 2. Change nothing! The trick is to make enough improvements in phase 1. With enough customers using the API, you’re forced into phase 2, because they won’t tolerate breaking changes.
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Phase 3: you adopt semantic versioning and add /v1 to the URLs, ā€˜so we can release breaking changes in v2’ Narrator: ā€˜there never was a v2’
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There was either no v2 because you stopped development, or… Phase 4: you realise that you shouldn’t be using version numbers, so the last one is for ever: hilton.org.uk/blog/http-api-…
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What else is broken-by-default in single-page apps?
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