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By Tali Despins · RSS · Home · Talks

  • Product Engineering

    Tali's POC / MVP Framework

    The working method from my POC Graveyard talk: thirteen steps from first idea to a shipped product, for anyone whose AI side projects stall after the exciting first hour.

    · 2 min read

  • Product Engineering

    When Failure Becomes Part of the Product

    My tiny weather app couldn't always find a photo. Instead of a gray placeholder, the fallback joined the nostalgic design. A note on designing the unhappy path.

    · 5 min read

  • Business

    In business, as in writing: show, don't tell.

    Claims rarely persuade. Writers learn to show, not tell, and founders, marketers and salespeople should too: replace every claim with something people can see.

    · 1 min read

  • Business

    Your Pitch Has Too Much Information

    More arguments can make a pitch weaker, not stronger. Lead with the change your product makes, skip the jargon, and stop before your best point gets buried.

    · 3 min read

  • Business

    I Build a New App Every 24 Days

    AI has made building cheap, but demand is still unpredictable. Why I now ship a new app every 24 days: to test ideas against real behavior instead of guessing.

    · 3 min read

  • Field Notes

    Don’t refine your prompts by guessing.

    Longer prompts often make results worse. Read how the AI interprets your request, borrow its own language, and rewrite. A workflow I use daily in Claude Code.

    · 1 min read

  • Behind the Build

    Using AI: Why Some People Get Great Results While Others Get Garbage

    Same model, same tools, very different results. AI is a people pleaser, not a mind reader, so output is capped by your own expertise. How to work around that.

    · 3 min read