Philippe Beaudoin

On December 13 we launched Waverly on Product Hunt. It was our first launch here, and the four of us, makers, had only been on the platform for a few months. Below is what we did and what we learned... 🌱 What we did before the launch As new users, we got the feel for this community. We started looking at launches, participating in discussions, trying to understand what users here react to,...

Remember the excitement of your first launch? It's that day for us! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/waverly-2 Beside asking for your support, I wanted to share where my excitement comes from... Sure, I'd like us to do good on the leaderboard, sure I'd like the app to gain users. But more importantly I'm excited for the same reason I'm excited on any important journey. For the learning...

Rich text prompts are used to create more and more things. Images with Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and MidJourney; video with Meta's Make-a-Video, arbitrary textual structures with ChatGPT... But there are so many useful artifacts that cannot yet be created with prompts. Which one will be next?

After a hard day of work, when you need to relax, is there something you particularly like to do? I'll go first. My days as a CEO are typically filled with a lot of small task — emails, meetings... As a tech person, I miss having my mind focused on a single, intellectually challenging task. That's why I like to relax by doing a pencil and paper puzzle away from my computer. Sudoku variant,...

As a participant there are few things that I love more than a well-moderated and active chat that can complement a lecture or meeting. It’s an outlet that keeps my mind running during the meeting and turns me from a passive listener into an active contributor. I get much more out of an hour of zoom if the chat is active. Mind you, it’s really hard for a presenter to activate and moderate a...

I know it’s all about talking with my users to understand them… but who do I talk to first? Those who answer «  yes » to my satisfaction survey or those who answer « no » ? Or a bit of both maybe?