Cristina Bunea

hey makers 👋 i recently wrote something a little more... different (at least for a b2b saas blog lol). i think product/startup wisdom often comes from unexpected places. one that i've been thinking about a lot recently is... Taylor Swift 👱🏻‍♀️ there's so many similarities between her and how startups operate and i think there's a ton of things we can learn from how she does business. 🔗 check...

while I love arc from the browser company, i feel like i haven't taken enough advantage of all the customization, so i'm looking for inspiration. what does yours look like? do you have any resources i could check out? i feel like there's so many easter eggs i haven't discovered yet. at commandbar, we're pretty big supporters of the company. so much so that we wrote an (almost, lol) PhD thesis...

Do you know (or run!) a B2B company that has no free tier + where you have to go through a demo to use the product? Writing a story about why some company stages/products might benefit from that, rather than PLG. Would love to hear from you. Leave a comment and I'll reach out!

Everyone tells you to talk to your users and deeply understand them. From every product podcast to the PMF framework Superhuman built. Yet, the status quo for asking users questions in-product is so, so bad. I can't remember the last time I filled out a survey. I'm organizing a Masterclass on how to build effective ones by breaking down examples from products like Airbnb and Notion. Would love...

In my experience, not very many. A bunch of them are super intrusive and annoying. I have a friend (Finn), who has studied hundreds (if not thousands, no, I'm not joking lol) of product tours to figure out what makes a great one and what to stay away from when building one. Product tours are not inherently evil, they're just built by people who don't understand them 😬 He's hosting a...

hey PH 👋 this week we did something fun at CommandBar that i thought other makers might find useful. we dug through the archives and resurrected the application that got us into YC a little over three years ago and did an ex-ante assessment of our application (“how good was the application given the information we had at the time")...