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Opinion
Dennis Pilarinos: Unblocked is not suited for small, co-located engineering teams
“Unblocked is not a great tool for, Four people who've been working on a product for a year have co-located in the same space. We knew that out of the gate. That's obvious. There isn't a huge hysteresis in terms of content. They haven't developed a lot of syste…”
Dennis Pilarinos Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 37:39 Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
Insight
Pilarinos: Products are defined by solved problems, not underlying AI tech
“Even when I think about, like, unblocked and people are like, oh, it's an AI dev tool. And I was like, in the same way it's a Postgres dev tool or a Kotlin dev tool, who cares what technology we're using? It solves a very specific problem for people. It just h…”
Dennis Pilarinos Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 9:44 Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Every Unblocked user first asks questions they already know to test it
“Every single person who onboards to Unblocked, without fail, the first question they ask is something that they're an expert in. They look to build confidence in the system. It's a hundred percent reproducible. I've never seen an exception outside of it.”
Dennis Pilarinos Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 27:46 Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
Disclosure
Pilarinos avoids phones and computers on Saturdays while building Unblocked
“I'm very strict around, like, on Saturdays, I try not to be on my phone or on a computer. I'm doing something else.”
Dennis Pilarinos Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 15:14 Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
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