The racing game Trackmania 4x’d their Twitch views in May. From 1.2M hours watched in April to 4.7M in May so far! For a game averaging 1,000 DAU is even more impressive. All of that just because of 1 game map that has been released by the players themselves: It’s called Deep Dip 2. The first person to finish it will get $15,000 as part of the $30,000 prize pool. And it’s funded by the community, and the prize pool is still growing! For comparison, the latest Trackmania World Cup had a lower prize pool of ~$27,000. Why does this map attract so much attention? Simple — it’s really really difficult. Players have to go through 16 floors full of obstacles. Each floor is higher than the previous one, and there are no checkpoints. If you fall — you start again. And you also need to livestream all of it, and aren’t allowed to “practice” the map. Isn't that a genius set of rules? The best players have been able to go through only 12 floors in 12 (!) days from the release. Here’s what top 10 looks right now: 1. @Bren_TM2 2. @eLconn21 3. @Wirtual 4. @Larstm_ 5. @Hazarduu 6. @simo_900TM 7. @ScrapieTV 8. @SkandeaR 9. @Schmaniol_ 10. @TmMudda 16 people worked to create the map and they even have their own plugin to track various analytics. There have been more than 2 million times a car has fallen down. How cool is that? This seems very similar to Getting Over It, Only Up, A Difficult Game About Climbing. Feels like a trend, not a new one, though. The idea of such games is simple — have a difficult game where a player has to reach the finish. Further people find ways to complete games in minutes or even seconds instead of days & weeks. That’s just incredible!

I always liked @linear but not loved it until it clicked with their latest release. I am now the happiest I've been with PM stuff! Here's a guide on how you could do the same: Step 1. Set up your Linear workspace. Linear is customer-friendly, has cool hotkeys, but still, there's a learning curve. Linear's docs and videos on how they use it are a must-have. The things I'd recommend to set up: — Workflows aka types and order of statuses for the tasks — Triage aka the aggregator of all incoming requests you have yet to review — Roadmaps aka gant charts and more — Cycles aka sprints — Labels (optional) — Integrations, GitHub/GitLab in particular (optional) Step 2. Create your structure Linear is very flexible, but you can easily get lost. Build a mind map of how you decompose & move things forward. Main entities to navigate: — Task(s) — a singular task (called issue in Linear) — Milestone(s) — a small group of task — Project(s) — a big group of tasks & milestones — Team(s) — a group of people It's easy to get chaotic If you don't have a structure. For example, you use projects, and you've defined a number of milestones that you need to deliver. But you've decided some things are extra, and you'll do them sometime after the release. Now you've built the thing and are now releasing it. The extra things aren't included, should you mark the project complete? On the one hand — yes, you've released the things. On the other hand — no, you have a milestone within the project that you'd like to do sometime in the future. If you decide to keep it — your roadmap may get chaotic. If you don't keep it — you are likely to forget about those extra things at all. No right answers here. In my experience there are a lot of such small things. They do not seem big, but may be painful If you don't have your own way of doing things. Step 3. Get settled Now you've got to furnish the house. Here you'll need two things: 1st thing — views. It's essentially pre-set filters within the structural things I've mentioned in step 2. For example — a Gantt chart of projects or maybe a yearly view of all the projects you have on hand. The same goes for issues or cycles. You could easily access the most recent cycle, and see the tasks that your designers have been working on. No need to set up filters every time — just create a view and get to it in just 1 click. 2nd thing — hotkeys. You can access anything from anywhere, just use CMD + K, it's like Spotlight, but with more firepower. Create issues & documents, change issues' status or label, get to settings and more. Need to get URL of a task? Just hover over it on the board, and press "CMD + Shift + ," or do CMD + C If you want to get the name & the URL, it's that easy, yet powerful. Step 4. Enjoy & keep moving The way you use things will evolve, and so will Linear (guys are shipping non-stop). Don't be afraid to try something new, or break the structure you have, I think it's natural. One of the last updates introduced documents for projects and it's a game changer for me. I no longer need to ideate in Notion, I can do it all in Linear, it's magical. With that said, here's a few things that could make my life (and maybe yours) even easier: 1. Ability to write updates for Roadmap and not only Projects 2. Extend Linear to customer support, e.g. create a simple customer portal 3. Automate reporting based on rules, e.g. create shareable report for the previous cycle, tasks split by team member, etc. A separate pet peeve of mine is reporting, Linear Insights do not work the best for me. But their API and OpenAI are helping me fix it. If you'd like to learn more about that, Linear, PM stuff, or anything like that — let me know I'll try to help

Me: do you guys have a dedicated customer support portal feature? Them:

Gemini is ruthless

LinkedIn seems to have limited accounts to 5 connection requests with a note per month. That's crazy. I think paying them lifts the restriction, and you still can send lots of unpersonalized connection requests, but still. What are they optimizing for?

The guy talked with 5k women on Tinder via ChatGPT. The most fascinating part, except that he found a wife that way? He earned $6,000 by referring these women to jobs. 8 of the women got hired in ~4 months he's been doing that. He spent just an hour a week on that. Unreal.

Today I got an incredible amount of things done, how? I drank 400ml of black coffee, but I don't drink coffee almost at all... I got to the point of my hands/knees shaking a bit, but man, did I get a lot of stuff done

Investors of @perplexity_ai are so good at marketing that I am using the product based of their tweets. And the product is quite as good, ngl

Wrapped, but for your team & company, all you need is a CSV with data, Slack is preferred, but not required Wrapped by GPT — chat.openai.com/g/g-QPR6FP6F…

So cute seeing folks try to learn how to use paragraphs 🤩

I can change bad sheets in <5 minutes. Always on the first try. Only at those moment I understand how far I’ve come as a person

Podcasts with Andrew are always insightful, will wait for the next appearance

.@eshear saw you in a book today! Do you think being comfortable with being wrong earlier on in your life would've benefited or harmed your business journey?