Dylan Conway

As an athlete and product manager, this message deeply resonates with me. In product management, it’s easy to get sidetracked by various priorities, like pleasing managers or stakeholders, or aiming for promotions. I appreciate Shreyas' point about how long-term career success lies in making the product win. The drive to win fosters a relentless pursuit of excellence and innovation. In my experience, whether in endurance sports or managing a product, the true competition is often with oneself. The drive to constantly improve and be better than yesterday is essential for reaching the full potential of both our genetics and new enabling technology.

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TLDR: 🚀 In 6 months, I've transformed my challenging homebuying experience into Home inSights—an AI-driven app I built to help navigate Portland, ME's challenging market. Like, share and read on to see how you can help. 🏠 Like many of you, I've faced the challenges of today's housing market firsthand. In just one year, we made 10 offers, toured dozens of homes, and combed through hundreds of listings. After repeatedly coming up short, I had a realization — the current tools weren't serving the actual consumers: homebuyers and homeowners. 📈 In Portland, home prices have surged by 85% and mortgage costs have tripled in just five years. We're in the midst of a nationwide crisis marked by limited supply, skyrocketing prices, and escalating borrowing costs. With this increased pressure on consumers, homebuyers need all the help they can get. 🔍 Home inSights is built to empower buyers and homeowners with personalized insights, community discussion, and smart comparison tools. You may be a home owner wanting to better estimate the equity you can roll forward, waiting for the right home to popup within a school district, or a new buyer with constantly changing buying power. Existing apps prioritize lead generation, and maintain this information asymmetry. There is a better way. 🌅 This version of Home inSights is only the beginning, currently focused on the Portland market. I’m racing to keep building this, but I want to begin including you all. Here’s my backstory on why I’m embarking on this journey: 💼 My career began in the aftermath of the last housing crisis. I worked on mortgage-backed securities lawsuits worth billions, reviewing tens of thousands of mortgages. The countless stories of hardship have stayed with me, fueling a deep-seated desire to make a difference. 👔 As a CFA charter holder, I love markets and valuations and feel driven to help make the market better by empowering consumers through information and tooling. 🥒 Later, I grew my family's pickle company to $3M revenue, gained hands-on business management experience, learned to listen to customers, and how to grow and lead teams when the future is unknown. 📱 Most recently, at Appex, I managed dozens of mobile apps with hundreds of thousands of consumers, worked with many founders, and learned how to build a mobile business. 💡🤖 But I wasn't a coder. Determined to create a solution, I turned to AI. In a few months, I launched not one, but two apps. These unique keystone experiences laid the foundation for what has become Home inSights. If you have read this far, thank you thank you thank you. 🫵 Any help is appreciated: 👍 1. Like, share, comment and/or tag someone on this post 🫶 2. Follow my progress on Instagram: @Buildwithphil.ai 📲 3. Download Home Insights on iOS, subscribe to support ongoing development, and share feedback https://lnkd.in/eQQc8tm9

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We, at Amplitude, have been the most advanced and powerful analytics tools for over 5 years. However, we acknowledge our Achilles' heel – it's been too complex, hard to get started, hard to use, and hard to scale. In the past few months, our entire company has united efforts to make Amplitude the easiest analytics tool to get started with, the easiest to use, and the easiest to scale. Now, anyone, really anyone, can get started on our entire Product Suite of Product Analytics, Experimentation, Feature Flagging, Session Replay, with just one line of code. There's been at least 100 people who have helped make this a reality. Calling out a few who went above and beyond in making this a reality: Anna Zeman, Weston Clarke, Kelson Warner, Yang (Marvin) Liu, Dillon Yao, Michael Bird, Colin Williamson, Abbie Kouzmanoff, William Newton, Jenny Chang, Steven Cheng, Nikhil Gangaraju and Jinhao Wan. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4ebWXhy #AmplitudeMadeEasy

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Latest q2 software engineering comp report (accepted offers) is out and it's a doozy. Please DM or email me [email protected] for the data. Overall trends: - compensation is up big in q2 - companies hiring more for seniority - in-office requirements continue to rise ... and much more

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🔥 Eli Daniel, Head of Engineering here at Jellyfish, brought some serious insights to OpsLevel's latest Level Up episode! Here's a sneak peek into what they discussed: ▶ How to choose metrics tailored to your organization's goals ▶ Tips for analyzing where your team's time is being spent ▶ Scaling metrics for better alignment and resource allocation ▶ Why DORA metrics are just scratching the surface ▶ Balancing quantitative and qualitative metrics for a complete picture of team performance Check it out! 👇👇👇

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