Philippe Gagnon

I would say it depends! :) I would go for the person, you need a flexible person able to do different tasks. Whether it's a CTO who can do engineering or an engineer with leadership skills.

We will certainly see a wave of ultra-personalized massive outreach.

For inspiration... The cool think about building a controllable aggregator is we can use it for what we care about! I created this feed with our app, it's about monetization: https://mywaverly.com/wave/id/4e... The prompts I wrote to control the feed was inspired by this great article: https://a16z.com/2022/11/02/how-...

Not sure if it still can be consider innovative but superhuman process is a great prosumer mindset of grinding. https://review.firstround.com/ho...

On top of all the good practices (users feedback, competitors, etc) what I do is to run an hypothesis driven process and it yields ideas. For early products, you usually have a general idea of a direction. Hypothesis are used to explain the delta in between the expected user behaviour or engagement and the actual result. Most feature have a role to play to reconcile the general user behaviour...