Janna Bastow

ProdPad: AI Assistant for Product People - Automate the product management grunt work and win back time

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The original product management platform just got even better. Now packed full of AI, ProdPad will automate the grunt work and guide you to greatness. Free-up hours with our AI Assistant, and be a best-practice powerhouse with guidance from your AI Coach.

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Janna Bastow
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Hey Product Hunters! 👋 Extremely thrilled to launch ProdPad AI to you good people today. ProdPad was the first product management platform, pioneering the category and inventing the Now-Next-Later roadmap. And here we are again, changing the game 🙌. Our reason-for-being is to relieve the pain and problems product managers face and help them implement and manage the product culture of their dreams. We initially built ProdPad as a tool to use ourselves as struggling product managers, overwhelmed by the weight of all the roadmapping, backlog refinement and feedback management work. ProdPad took a load of that weight off. It worked. And worked REALLY WELL. As a team, we’re laser focused on saving PMs as much time as possible so you folks do less grunt work and more of the valuable stuff. This has never been more important. Times are tough. Budgets are tight. The pressure to prove your worth and deliver value has never been harder felt. And that’s where ProdPad can help. A product manager armed with ProdPad and the ProdPad AI Assistant can do the work of 5 product managers who aren’t ProdPadded up. Our work into AI assistance for product managers started way back before other PM tools were offering anything of the kind. We’ve learnt a lot and are very pleased to say we have the widest and most advanced set of AI tools of any product platform. Unlike general generative AI tools, ProdPad AI is tailored with your product and strategy knowledge right from the get-go. It marries this with a deep understanding of product management best practice, to give you the right output first time. And ProdPad AI is doing so much more than generating user stories, fleshing out ideas and building out key results. We’ve put AI to use as your sidekick and personal coach. It can tell you if your product vision is any good, if your ideas are aligned with your roadmap's vision, and provide expert product management advice tailored to your specific needs. This is just the start. We’re shipping new AI features and enhancements every single week. So I’d urge you all to check it out. Let our AI Assistant and AI Product Coach handle the grunt work and help you… ✍️ Smash through all your writing tasks in moments - from idea descriptions to user stories 💡 Build out your roadmap in a flash - generate roadmap initiatives, new ideas and even product goals 🧹 Refine your backlog in half the time - stop duplicates, automatically link feedback and more 🤓 Be a best-practice powerhouse with real-time coaching and advice at every stage We’ve opened up our sandbox environment so you can jump in and have a play with some real data already there. Let me know what you think! Happy exploring, Janna Bastow
Antoni Kozelski
@simplybastow Congratulations on the launch of ProdPad AI! Your commitment to making life easier for product managers is a new approach of artificial intelligence and very relevant in challenging times. 📈💡👏 looking forward to the new features
Daniel Feles
@simplybastow Impressive stuff, Janna and team! ProdPad's commitment to easing the product management journey is appreciated, and the AI-driven features could be a game-changer. Excited to explore your tool. Congrats, and good luck!
Marc Abraham
@simplybastow Huge congratulations on the launch of ProdPad AI, I really love how the product clearly helps PMs to be more efficient with their time and get valuable support with their product ideas. Great to see the built-in feedback summary capability (incl. sentiment) and the AI Assistant. Congratulations and look forward to trying the product!
Simon Cast
Thanks @marc_abraham! It has been interesting working out how to make it all work for product managers. cc @simplybastow.
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@marc_abraham Thanks very much! I look forward to your feedback. Your hot take on product tools is of course very valuable to me 😁
Antonia Landi
I really didn't think ProdPad could get any better... but you've actually done it. Amazing!
Georgina Munn
@antonia_landi 🤩 we're super proud of ProdPad AI 🫶
Simon Cast
@antonia_landi thank you! We've focused on the necessarily but tedious stuff first as we all know that tasks like crafting user stories isn't often the funnest thing in the world to do!
C. Todd Lombardo
Using AI to accelerate the tedium of product managers is brilliant! Spend more of your time speaking with customers and delivering value.
Simon Cast
@ctodd yep! Trying to overcome the blank page syndrome we all face :) We've definitely seen how the value is removing tedium for product managers.
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@ctodd Thanks very much! Indeed, this is the heart of 'real' product management we want to get PMs back to, getting in front of customers and having actual conversations. And if those conversations happen to take a long time, no problem, as the AI feedback summarizer sums it up neatly now!
Darya Antonyuk
love the product! especially the part about refining the backlog, think it's super helpful. Congrats on the launch, guys!
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@darya_antonyuk Thanks so much Darya! Yeah, PMs spend so much time on their backlog, when now it's going to be easier than ever to spend that valuable time actually talking to customers (and don't worry about long feedback, as our AI feedback summarizer tackles that for you too 😎)
Jen Swanson
@darya_antonyuk Right? the duplication finder alone is worth its weight in gold. The time that would have saved me back in the day.....
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Introducing ProdPad AI is a notable move in the product management realm. It's evident you've targeted real pain points faced by PMs. The focus on AI-driven solutions tailored specifically for product management is a logical progression. I'll be keen to see how the AI enhancements evolve over time. Keep it up.
Simon Cast
@e__m_c_2 thank you! We've got more coming :)
Matt Williams
Congrats on the launch! Such a helpful tool for streamlining a ton of processes! 🚀
Pradip Khakhar
All the best ProdPad team 🙌 another reason to keep recommending ProdPad.
Simon Cast
@pradipcloud thank you!
Dan Tegzes
It’s amazing that you guys pulled this off! Great team! 😎
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@dan_tegzes Thanks so much! It's been a fun series of discovery, learning, and iteration to get it to this point. Lots of big WOW moments as we figured out what the tech could do 🤯
Lenny Rachitsky
Congrats Janna!
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@lenny_rachitsky Thanks very much Lenny, we really appreciate your support! 😎
Georgina Munn
AI Idea description generation 🤝 user story writing = 🤌
Janna Bastow
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Maker
My favourite quotes/reviews/testimonials so far: 🌟 I've been playing around with it and have to say it's one of the most impressive tools I've ever used. The UI/UX/comms are soooo slick. 🌟 Holy sh*t batman, this is a game changer ProdPad! 🤩 Loving this new feature and not starting from a blank sheet of paper. Extra impressive in that ours is quite a niche B2B product. 🌟 The compare idea to product vision is a very pleasant surprise. I tried it for one of our ideas and the response was spot on. Even highlighted considerations around privacy! I’m very impressed.
Martha
Congrats Janna & team on the launch!
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@martha_mgk Thank you so much! We really appreciate your support :)
Jen Swanson
Well done Janna and ProdPad Team! This is good work and is going to serve teams so well. The real time product coaching is awesome. Simple prompts to help PMs stay focused!
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@jen_swanson_tuckpoint Thanks very much for your support! Yeah, interacting with the coach is my absolute fave, and blows my mind every time (we've primed it to be inquisitive, to help PMs introspect on why they're making certain decisions, and it always exceeds expectations on what it's able to dig into if you engage)
Tan
Congrats on launch and good luck!
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@tan_hmn Thanks so much! We really appreciate your support 🌟
AI continues to permeate every field. Congratulations on the launch
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@alex_egorov It certainly does! Love seeing how much it's been able to being us closer to our original vision: to be a tool that actually improves your product management. The coach/sidekick elements of this are particularly impressive!
Rob Walling
This looks amazing! Huge, congrats to Janna and the rest of the ProdPad team.
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@robwalling Big thanks Rob! It's been mindblowing to see what we can do with tech this year 🤯🤓🚀
Eric Bedard
Again, you help us move forward and try to simplify our day-to-day! Receiving customer feedback is what we hope for, but it also means a lot of work. Summarizing and reformatting the content we get from different sources is great, but most importantly, I really like the idea of detailing ideas and writing user stories based on the data you guys already have. I suspect this will also continue to improve as you may find ways to learn from ideas that worked more than others, for example. I'm not sure when you guys find time to do all this, but thumbs up and thank you!! You keep innovating, and you provide real value to all of us!! Bravo à toi et ton équipe Janna.
Maciej Czajkowski
I'm feeling the pain of managing product myself, so the need is there, that's for sure. So I like the idea behind the product. My problem is that after skimming through your website and materials, I cannot find any unique selling point, that you want to build around. I think you should do some strategy work to clarify your vision.
Vittori
upvoted! Can't wait to try it! Keep up the good work!
Janna Bastow
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Maker
@alighned79 Thanks! We look forward to your feedback 😎
Ben Williams
Wow @simplybastow this is wonderful, and is going to help make PMs more productive. Can't wait to see where you folks take this next! Kudos to you and the ProdPad team!