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Roadmap.com — A community of product managers
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@rrhoover That is true Ryan. And there are even fewer educational opportunities to learn about being a great PM. It is just starting to be a profession that is even discussed in traditional schools and courses are just starting to emerge.
Nice job @bdehaaff, what a great domain name. I'm curious as to how the back end is built for this - was it an existing Q&A framework you got from somewhere or was it coded from scratch for the site?
Very excited about this! I have been waiting for something similar to inboud.org to appear for product managers. Expecting good content and answers.
A couple of things noticed using roadmap.com:
- the link option in the text editor does not work
- trying to tell you this I noticed that email support@roadmap.com does not work. Could it be that you forgot to make the group accessible to people who do not have an email address with @roadmap.com? Google is offering me this as a solution to the problem in their failure message.
It's terrific to see Roadmap.com highlighted here by the community. Thank you.
It was clear that a community dedicated to product and company building was meant to be built on a premium domain. It needed a high-profile location. So, we were fortunate to be able to acquire the most important one-word domain for product managers -- ROADMAP. How we did it and what we paid is a story for another time.
Roadmap.com was built based on what thousands of product managers have asked us for — a dedicated place where you can ask questions about best product management practices and share what you know. A place where both aspiring and experienced product managers can call home.
Sure, there are Quora and LinkedIn groups. And you might ask yourself why the world needs another community for sharing content? We did the same before we built it. It is true that there are already a few good educational resources out there that include areas for product management. But these websites were built with many other audiences in mind too.
We hope that you will benefit from participating in the Roadmap.com community. There are already some great threads on the site. Here are a few of my early favorites:
Should product managers be using the same tools as their development teams?
https://www.roadmap.com/product-...
When hiring a product manager what skills do you look for?
https://www.roadmap.com/hiring-p...
What is the difference between UI and UX?
https://www.roadmap.com/differen...
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@bdehaaff I wish startups would stop riding the wave of other successful startups with their slogans like "Quora for product managers". I actually thought it was a Quora spin off niche product until I realized you are trying to ride on the Quora brand and lost all respect for it. Sorry won't be registering for any vanity membership numbers.
@ernestsemerda I agree and am not a big fan myself of "It is X for Y." The editorial team at PH has graciously changed the description that they used to what you now see, "A community of product managers." Thanks for the comment.
Congrats on the launch, @bdehaaff team. Product looks great. Do you guys offer the ability to receive the most popular questions via email on a regular basis? I'd like to get that weekly. Thanks.
@mjirout Thanks. Not yet, but we have already been asked for a feed and we definitley should will add a weekly digest email of the most popular questions and answers.
I'm a fan of anything that helps product managers be better at their jobs. Roadmap seems to serve a community I care a lot about, so I can't wait to get more involved with it!
@belsito Appreciate the kind words Mike. Let us know if you have any feedback. Would be interested in hearing what you think.
Looks like a good community! What are your plans for marketing this beyond being on PH? :) @bdehaaff
@davidsfeng We love PH. What else is there :-) Seriously, Roadmap.com is sponsored by Aha! (www.aha.io) so we have a meaningful customer base and write often about Product Management and Innovation. We are also hopeful that others will help share content that they find meaningful on the site. As you know, building something new is always an adventure.
@bdehaaff Actually, I'd love to find out how to become an integration partner. Will take a look at http://www.aha.io/api.
@davidsfeng Take a look and send a note to support@aha.io if you have thoughts. Assuming you are referring to Aha!, we tend to integrate with applications that are broadly used by our customers and relate to product ideation and development.
@davidsfeng Roadmap.com definitely is off to a running start. We have tried to share the news via social and our blog as well. We are fortunate at this point to have over 200,000 followers across our social channels.
There should be an explanation why is that any better than Quora itself (f.ex. https://www.quora.com/topic/Prod...), but I can't find it right now.
@andreymaslak I am not sure that it is better at this point. The difference is that it is a focused community for Product Managers. Time will tell whether it becomes a meaningful and lasting educational site and resource. Let's check back in a year :-)
@knownhuman @andreymaslak Thanks. Roadmap.com is sponsored by Aha! and at Aha! we defined a set of principles that we think are fundamental to building great products and companies. Transparency is one of the key guiding ideas. You may be interested in The Responsive Method which is described here: http://www.aha.io/company/the-re...
Great idea! And I'd love to know how they got the Roadmap.com domain name. Has this been in the works for awhile?
@jonathon_cunningham Great question. And that is a story perhaps for a blog post sometime. I can share a few details though. We originally acquired the domain by itself (when we bought it there was nothing on the domain). Then we built the community on top of the URL.
As you know one word domains are hard to come by. We consider ourselves fortunate to have picked it up.
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