# great products (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover great products. Page: Feed: --- ## [You're using AI at half power. Here's the missing half.](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/youre-using-ai-at-half-power-heres) _2026-07-21 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ AI can write the code. The real superpower now is reducing the Verification Tax. ## [The Push Playbook: How internal products actually get adopted](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/the-push-playbook-how-internal-products) _2026-07-09 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ I once got an ML model with 41% accuracy adopted across teams. It became one of the most successful things I've shipped. Here's why Build it and they will come doesn't work for internal products. ## [The one belief that runs our life](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/the-one-belief-that-runs-our-life) _2026-07-08 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ We all have a dominating belief that seems to govern the patterns in our life. We don’t chose it, we probably didn’t realize it exists till in our 20s or 30s. But its underneath everything that shapes our life. We don't remember signing up for it. But it's there, under everything, an old sentence about who we are, and it decides more than we would ever admit. It decides what you notice. It decides… ## [The new PRD: How I replaced specs with a 5-minute conversation](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/the-new-prd-how-i-replaced-specs) _2026-07-03 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ AI now fills in the parts I used to have to spell out. Here's the framework I use to build personal-use products without a PRD. ## [What running (Edge) AI without the internet actually feels like](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/what-running-edge-ai-without-the) _2026-06-26 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ Free cloud compute is becoming a scarce resource. So I went looking for a backup plan in Edge AI. ## [The Iceberg theory of great products](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/the-iceberg-theory-of-great-products) _2026-06-18 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ AI hasn't made great products easier to build (yet). It made the easier parts look like the whole job. ## [TokenMaxxing was always the wrong question. Here's the right one.](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/tokenmaxxing-was-always-the-wrong) _2026-06-09 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ Most organisations are failing at AI because they're measuring the wrong things entirely. ## [The Last-Minute rate drop is Not a mistake](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/the-last-minute-rate-drop-is-not) _2026-06-04 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ Owning assets is both a superpower and a trap. And the companies that navigate this best have built entire sciences around a problem that still has no clean answer. ## [The force multiplier most Product Builders skip](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/the-force-multiplier-most-product) _2026-05-27 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ The most valuable career move I made wasn't an interview, a course, or a promotion. It was the months I spent on the ground with customers - before I ever called myself a Product Builder. ## [Will apps disappear or multiply? Both, actually.](https://bhanumadaan.substack.com/p/will-apps-disappear-or-multiply-both) _2026-05-18 · Bhanu Madaan · Bhanu’s Curiosity Substack_ Why Pete Steinberger is both right and wrong about the future of apps. ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/InoKOdXWoYuH) _2026-05-18 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [The AI operator: Biggest role in silicon valley](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/the-ai-operator-biggest-role-in-silicon-valley) _2026-04-28 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ Before electricity was the steam engine. It was located in a separate floor/building but with a central shaft transferring energy required for work. All the work had to be concentrated around this line. Initially with electricity, people changed the source from steam to electricity but kept the same design and then soon people started realizing electricity can be distributed, different parts can… ## [Accepting failure by rejecting it](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/accepting-failure-by-rejecting-it) _2026-02-21 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ If you want to do ambitious things, you have to accept failing, and probably failing and being wrong a lot. But at the same time, the desire to not fail is what drives so many ambitions and successful projects early on. ## [Asymmetry of Good & Bad News](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/good-news-bad-news) _2026-02-21 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ We treat good news like healthy food. A little every day. Sustainable. Nourishing. We treat bad news like illness. We’d rather suffer hard and fast than bleed slowly. This asymmetry matters. ## [World Wide Web peaked in 2025](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/world-wide-web-peaked-in-2025) _2026-02-21 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ The world wide web as a place of information and marketplace of goods and services has probably reached it peak in 2025. It will still be alive and kicking for a few more decades, just like Radio and Television still exists, but the cultural peak is behind us as we step in 2026. ## [Sophie Rain and Her $93 Million Ass](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/sophie-rain-and-her-93-million-ass) _2026-02-21 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ I saw a number scrolling through X. Sophie Rain made $93 million. That’s more than some African nations GDP. More than any NFL player makes in a year. More than 99.9% of Ivy League grads will ever see. It’s baffling. It’s just an ass. ## [The Advice That Finally Shut My Mind Up](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/quest-maxing-is-male-therapy) _2025-12-25 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ The traditional talk therapy doesn’t work for men. Not entirely. Not on its own. Men and women are different. Our wiring is different. Our failure modes are different. Modern therapy—well-intentioned as it is—leans heavily into feelings, validation, naming emotions, and sitting with them. These things work. But for many men, they are insufficient. Maybe they’re insufficient for all of us. I can… ## [Is Self-focus Killing You Too?](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/dont-think-about-yourself) _2025-12-25 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ The truth is—nobody, probably not even me, gives a fuck about me. That sounds harsh. Especially the part about me not giving a fuck about myself. But we’ve all been there—wanting someone else’s approval more than any self-love we’re capable of mustering. The world is selfish in a strange way. It rewards people who offer themselves to it. ## [The Only Ratio That Matters](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/doing-saying-ratio) _2025-12-25 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ Our potential is a function of our imagination, ability to be our imagination and resources around us. Our imagination can be captured by what we tell ourselves and others. I don’t know about you but my mind fires up new ideas, possibilities that brightens my soul, and I forget probably 90% of them and the 10% I do remember, most I sacrifice at the altar of execution. Maybe that is just life - we… ## [DECISION MOMENTUM](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/decision-momentum) _2025-07-28 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ Every founder I admire—every one—moves fast. Not because they know everything. But because they don’t wait to find out. Startups have less of everything: Less cash. Fewer people. No brand, no customers, no resume fluff. No five-year plan. No buffer. Instead of Eat → Sleep → Rave → Repeat, it is Decide → Ship → Observe → Repeat. ## [God,Why Did We Build Machines to Know Everything?](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/god10x-generalist-and-ai) _2025-07-27 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ God was the OG generalist : Omnipotent. Omniscient. A being who could write odysseys, build the universe, create all life, destroy what’s no longer needed, compose symphonies, and engineer galaxies, all before lunch. Our desire to create super intelligence, to travel to space, to find other life forms - is to search for become God. And we have taken one giant leap forward as a humanity with AI. It… ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zWddpFY7ZBwH) _2025-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [The Flow State and AI](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/the-flow-state-and-ai) _2025-05-05 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ There’s a sweet spot where humans hum like machines - the flow state . One task. Full focus. Vivid Imagination. A few hours of unbroken attention—and the whole system locks into flow. Time blurs, output spikes, meaning returns. Step outside that zone and we look like an AI hallucinating - our words and actions have no coherence to our stated goals. We doom-scroll, tab-hop, snack on sugar, binge on… ## [Be Unreasonable](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/be-unreasonable) _2025-04-18 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ When I was a kid and people would ask me to be grow-up or become mature - When I was a kid and people told me to grow up—to be mature—it always sounded like a polite way of saying: adjust. Fit in. Dull your edges. Make peace with the rules. It felt like a slow betrayal of me, like being asked to trade in my wildness for a seat at the big boy table. I didn’t like any of it. Still don’t. However, in… ## [The New Age of Creativity](https://www.rishgupta.com/blog/the-new-age-of-creativity) _2025-04-17 · Rish Gupta · Bodhi_ There is big question of what AI will do to human jobs and human livelihood and the answer is rather simple - it will change, it will evolve and it will create more space for human creativity.