Issue #534

Tuesday 23rd July’s issue is presented by AssemblyAI

Top 18 Products Launched With Speech AI

Whether you're a developer, founder, or product innovator, here are 18 fast-growing products that are leveraging Speech AI technology to solve real user problems.

• Meeting Note Takers and Co-Pilots

• Call Analysis and Conversation Intelligence

• Media and Archive Search

See all 18 ways companies are leveraging Speech AI technology.

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Trust As A Bottleneck To Growing Teams Quickly

— Ben Kuhn

tl;dr: “Trust is what lets collaboration scale.” Ben shares symptoms he’s noticed that can indicate a buildup of trust deficits in companies: (1) Too many decisions needing to be escalated. (2) Too many decisions requiring deep involvement from many stakeholders. (3) People having lots of FUD about whether projects they’re not involved in are on track. (4) Leaders frequently needing to do “deep dives” on individual topics. (5) Leaders needing to spending most of their time. Additionally, Ben shares tactics to invest more effort in trusting others.  

Leadership Management

40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew At 20)

— Peter Yang

tl;dr: (1) Find the torture that you’re comfortable with. (2) Look for the intersection i.e. the work that satisfies what you want, what you’re good at, and what the market wants. (3) Stop waiting for permission. (4) Maximize your luck surface area. (5) Don’t be the best, be the only. 

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Top 18 Products Launched With Speech AI

— Jesse Sumrak

tl;dr: Whether you're a developer, founder, or product innovator, these fast-growing products are shaping the Speech AI space and demonstrating the endless possibilities unlocked by this technology.

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Management Trends

Where More Effective Product Teams Spend More (and Less) Time

— John Cutler

tl;dr: “When trying to understand where a team or company is at, one of the first things I do is talk to people about how they spend their time and energy. Words like empowered, feature factory, and outcome-oriented are squishy and can mean a million things. Behaviors don't lie. There are only so many hours in a week, and we have finite energy to do thoughtful work.” John shares where teams that are further along their product journey spend time. 

Leadership Management Product

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

-Seth Godin

Advanced Terminal Tips And Tricks

— Daniel Kleinstein

tl;dr: “I wanted to share some things I learned at relatively late stages in the game that ended up being significant productivity boosters for me: (1) Use command line editing. (2) tmux scripting. (3) Use fzf liberally in custom scripts. (4) Use /dev/stdin as a replacement for heredocs. (5) Use SSH multiplexing.

Productivity Tips

Build A Waitlist With Clerk User Metadata

— Brian Morrison

tl;dr: Discover how to implement a waitlist in your app using Clerk's user metadata, including setting up an admin dashboard for efficient user access management. This guide simplifies controlling user entry and enhances your app's onboarding workflow. 

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Guide

Odin: Uber’s Stateful Platform

— Gianluca Mezzetti, Jesper Borlum

tl;dr: “The Odin platform aims to provide a unified operational experience by encompassing all aspects of managing stateful workloads. These aspects include host lifecycle, workload scheduling, cluster management, monitoring, state propagation, operational user interfaces, alerting, auto-scaling, and automation. Uber deploys stateful systems at global, regional, and zonal levels, and Odin is designed to manage these systems consistently and in a technology-agnostic manner.” This post provides an overview of Odin’s origins, the fundamental principles, and the challenges encountered early on. 

Architecture DevOps

Did You Know About Instruments?

— Thorsten Ball

tl;dr: “For the longest time, I thought Instruments on macOS wasn’t for me. Whenever I saw its icon show up in the /Applications folder or pop up in a launcher, I assumed it’s part of Xcode and Xcode is an IDE for Objective-C and Swift programmers and that’s not what I do and that’s why Instruments isn’t for me. I was wrong.” Thorsten discusses how he uses Instruments as a productivity tool with anything. 

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How To Make Complex Chrome Extensions: A Zero Gravity Guide

— Nina Torgunakova, Travis Turner

tl;dr: “Building a complex browser extension isn’t exactly easy—especially for first-timers or folks who feel unsure of what they’re doing! Not to worry. We’ll show you the essentials for building a full-featured Chrome extension using a real example!”

Guide Chrome

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Story Points Are Pointless, Measure Queues — Barry Jones

Notable Links

Composio: Tools empowering agents for complex tasks.

Crawlee: Web scraping and browser automation library.

Graph Builder: Build unstructured data using LLMs.

Mem0: Memory layer for personalized AI.

Storm: Generate full-length report with citations.

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