Reflections on Andrew Chen's Cold Start problem,  networked products, overcrowding, and some indie opportunities for no-code.

It's the weekly, week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs.

Gartner predicts that by 2024 almost 70% of application development will be made with no and low-code. Suffice to say No-code has seen a meteoric rise in the past few years and may soon become a large part of working in businesses of all sizes. I've worked on no-code products that were just getting started all the way to more mature products with thousands of monthly visitors.

I've seen that there are a few challenges a team may encounter as their no-code app matures, I teased some of this from lessons from code for no-code, and options for automated testing are one of them. Jamming on some options here and the potential for a productized service.

Here are some of the tools I mentioned in the episode

Digital product studios are a relatively new term. Jules Ehrnhard of FKTRY coined the term in 2016 and shares a lot of analysis on the model. Several service companies in the no-code world (Lunch Pail Labs included) use the digital product studio model, it's even in the intro to this podcast but what does that all even mean? I explore all of that is this episode.

have a section in my weekly reviews that I call goal and vision where I reflect on where I'm trying to take Lunch Pail Labs, but I’ve often felt that my descriptions are general.  Ali Abdaal describes the ideal ordinary week, so I gave the exercise a try this morning and put some thoughts on how it applies to Lunch Pail Labs.

It's the weekly, week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs.

Atomic is everywhere. James Clear popularized atomic habits, Andrew Chen chats atomic networks in the Cold Start problem, and Ship 30 for 30 touts atomic essays. I did a quick google search to see what atomic thinking applies to products and didn’t find much, so this episode jams on my application of these atomic ideas to what could be atomic products. Read along with the accompanying atomic essay here.

Yesterday, I chatted about the water company Liquid Death and stages of product markets and how style/identity are the main differentiators in more markets. I did a little research to see what existing frameworks might apply to this thinking. And came across the Design hierarchy of needs ,coined by William Lidwell, which is on the Maslow hierarchy of needs. In this episode, I jam about how Lidwell's framework describes the earlier stages and how I plan to implement all of that at  Lunch Pail.

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