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- Stop Guessing, Start Listening · 16 minA researcher runs some interviews. They produce a report. They tell everyone what they learned. Then the product team goes back to building. The researcher Emily Goligoski…
- AI doesn't kill art. It moves the goalposts. · 26 min · Sezonul 2Did the camera kill art? Of course not, says our guest David Somerville, it pushed art to new places. Cubism. Impressionism. “What didn’t happen is art ceased to exist,” he says…
- Introducing Sous Chef, our newest app · 25 minBig news! Sous Chef, our AI-powered app for creative cooking, is officially in open beta 🎉 Now, we’re not saying we’re the next coming of Bobby Flay and Alton Brown, but we both…
- Revealed: The Product We'll Vibecode Out of Existence · 22 minLast week, we threw down the gauntlet: We’re joining the SaaSpocalypse and picking one of our software subscriptions to replace with a vibecoded substitute. The people spoke…
- Help us pick which SaaS platform to vibecode out of existence · 24 minEarlier this week, the NASDAQ’s most powerful software stocks took a massive nosedive because an AI provider published a plugin. It sounds kind of silly, like the (probably…
- Introducing The Andrew Company · 25 minFolks, we did the dang thing. After six years of friendship, three years of consulting together, and 10 beautiful months of Friday podcasting — The Andrews are officially joining…
- Getting Real About 2025 (And Our Bets For 2026) · 30 minHappy almost New Year! This is a year-in-review episode, but we’ll save you the usual LinkedIn end-of-year pablum. Some things about 2025 were hard. Andrew Phelps shares how he…
- The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Product Friday · 32 minPhelps has been building something for the past month. It’s inspired him — maybe more than any side project in recent memory. And it just suffered a setback that has him…
- A Topic So Big, We Needed Two More Andrews · 27 minOur last PF conversation left us hungry for more. Sure, it’s great to hear how two chaotic coders — er, talented thought leaders — are using AI to build products. But what about…
- The Best Way to Vibecode Is Hands-On. Here's How We Do It. · 21 minA note from The Andrews: Hey! It would help us a lot if you would review Product Fridays on Apple Podcasts (even if you don’t like us). It’s basically like giving us money. If…
- How Can News Publishers Compete with AI Digests? We See Two Ways. · 22 minA programming note: We’re now releasing Product Fridays on Mondays. We know, we know, Friday is right there in the name. But Friday is the vibe, you see. And Monday turns out to…
- ChatGPT Can Do Everything. That’s the Problem. · 19 minAndrew McGill shares a new demo he’s been working on — an AI-powered interior design assistant called Zhuzh — and wonders aloud: if this is just ChatGPT with a prettier…
- We Cloned Our Voices. Can We Retire Now? · 23 minWe've returned from our summer break, and Phelps is ALREADY trying to get back on Island Time by outsourcing the entire podcast to AI voice clones. Seriously, text-to-speech is…
- How to Become a Morning Person (Against Your Will) · 19 minThis week on Product Fridays, we’re trying something new: a deep dive. We focus on a single product and debate whether it’s worth keeping on our phones. First up: Rise, the sleep…
- Friday Bracket: The One App We Can't Live Without · 15 minIt’s Friday, and Andrew McGill is a deflated car dealership arm-waving balloon of a human being. So this week, we take it easy… and build a bracket to determine the very best…
- How to Build a Product in Four Days (With Strangers) · 38 minWhat does it actually look like to invent something new in a week? This week we take you behind the scenes of a recent client sprint — a real one, with a real team, real stakes…
- What Happens If Google Search Just Disappears? · 17 minGoogle owns the open web. If your website isn’t Googleable or doesn’t work in Chrome, it doesn’t exist. Search has fueled discovery, traffic, and revenue growth for just about…
- What Even Is Creativity? · 19 minAndrew Phelps leads off with a question, one he’s never spoken out loud before — “Am I creative?” Oof, isn’t that a straight jab to the ol’ imposter syndrome funny bone? If…
- The End of the PM As We Know It? · 12 minThis week we talk about the shifting role of product management—and whether the profession we grew up in is headed for extinction, evolution, or something in between. We start…
- Existential Questions About Journalism and AI · 15 minThis week, The Andrews met up in Baltimore for the Hacks/Hackers Journalism x AI Summit, which was a blast. (Even before the Mario Kart tournament got underway.) For one, we got…
