Michael Dubakov. Building OS for your company at Fibery. Riding the edge of cHaOS. Posting about systems, startups, creativity & products.
You built a product and had your first release . You had some customers. You had a seed round . You had a small team . You worked hard. Things grew. You had a Series A . A few years passed. You had very hard times. You had good times. Now you have hundreds
Zero-bugs policy sounds great — but it’s a myth. Even top projects have bugs. Fix the critical 80% instead of chasing every tiny issue.
Some SaaS tools give off good vibes (Notion, Ghost), others bad vibes (Motion, ClickUp). Why? It all comes down to ethics
After my last post Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World many people assumed that I was talking about code-level tools only. But it is not exactly right, malleability lives on multiple layers — from raw code to low-code to no-code. There are several categories of malleable
In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you. Let's take Linear . It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI
My psychotherapist (my wife) told me I need to write. “What should I write about?” I asked. “It doesn’t matter, just write. When you write, you feel better,” she answered. For the last four years, writing hasn’t come easily. Since August 2020
I am not often satisfied with any results: not of my own work, not my teams’, not that of the company as a whole or each individual person in it. When someone shows me something, I usually go: ” Well, that’s not quite my tempo .” Alright,
Startups are hard 🐝. Nobody has a ready recipe for a successful startup. It’s like life. Nobody has a ready recipe for a fulfilling, happy and successful life neither. Few startups are successful from day one and never really struggle. Most startups do struggle and die. But I
Features prioritization is the  hardest  problem in product management. There are many techniques that might help and I’ve tried them all (with no great success). I think something important is missing. In a nutshell, these techniques are just linear models that work as good
Almost any serious no-code tool should have automations at some point. Automation is bread and butter of a useful system that help people be more productive. First stage is data collecting for sure, but second is automation. We are thinking about automations in  Fibery , since it seems data
Back in the ’90s, people were already doing what we’re more or less trying to do now at Fibery . Unfortunately, the arrival of the internet practically froze all progress in the field of no-code solutions (tools where users solve their own problems by creating custom apps&
The Buddha's Way of Happiness is the sixth book about Buddhism that I’ve read, and one of the best. Maybe it just felt that way because my brain has finally accumulated enough connections. Or maybe the author really does know how to convey Eastern concepts to
It seems no-code software is booming. Fast adoption, huge rounds, insane valuation 🦄, happy customers. Why now? Why not 20 years ago? Why not 20 years in the future? This is an interesting question I got from one VC partner. I didn’t manage to answer it clearly
J.C.R. Licklider is quite unknown outside US. It’s a pity, since he influenced computers evolution enormously. As a head of ARPA he put money into many obscure research groups, thus literarily emulating VC in 60s! He did not like to write papers and books, but loved
I love books like this . Short, crisp, no fluff, genuinely useful, and an easy read. Pretty close to ideal. I’m not really fond of talking to strangers, but I have to. And at forty, I still learned quite a lot from this book. Here’s what matters