Writings

April 10, 2023

Leveraging ChatGPT to Empower Data-Driven Product Management at Trality

How Trality's product management team leveraged ChatGPT, an AI-based language model, to conduct data analyses at the level of a professional data scientist. Faced with limited resources and a challenging data environment, we collaborated with colleagues and utilized various tools to extract, combine, and transform data for survival analysis. Through this process, we were able to uncover key insights into user behavior, subscription likelihood, and the impact of core activities on retention. This data-driven approach, powered by AI, has enabled us to make more informed decisions, improve customer experience, and optimize our platform for success

May 24, 2023

Experimenting on our main funnel at Trality

Trality is a platform that offers investors the ability to rent trading bots. After launching the marketplace, they realized that while functionally their product had everything it needed, it was not good at emotionally catching the user, making them stay on the platform to finish the rental process. To address this issue, they turned to gamification using the Octalysis Gamification framework. They implemented several gamification techniques and saw significant improvements in their conversion rates. Gamification proved to be a powerful tool for product development, making the product more engaging and improving conversion rates.

May 15, 2023

A recommendation engine for Art Movies

I am a big fan of art movies. Not arthouse movies. Movies that would play in art galleries and museums. However, I found it incredibly hard to learn more about them, or discover them, even though they are just so mezmerizing.

January 8, 2023

Reusable Project

Creating a reusable project based on the MEAN stack to turbo-charge and quickly prototype my ideas.

May 1, 2022

Notion-like Email Formatting

Notion took the world by storm and we still write boring-ass emails today... or hyper-styled HTML emails via email builders. Why is there no Notion for email? Well... there is now!

December 15, 2021

Mailie - Sharing emails made possible

Three friends set out to create a professional-grade piece of software. Top-notch design, scalable backend, and a frontend to bring it all together. At its core was our common annoyance with email.

September 11, 2021

How Fave builds products

When I joined Fave as a new product manager, I was eager to understand how the team's product processes work. I met with each product manager and asked them how they do it. What surprised me initially was that they all followed different processes.

July 25, 2021

Converting website visitors to app downloads

Fave's website has not been changed in years. While today most of users are on the mobile app, Fave still maintaining our web presence. Due to the low impact, it had never been prioritized and accumulated a few bottlenecks:

July 12, 2021

Revamping Fave’s consumer experience

How might we redesign a relevant daily lifestyle app with a defined, scalable experience? Here is what we did to answer this question at Fave.

April 20, 2021

Quick and dirty landing page experimentations

At Educatly, we noticed that our conversion rates by directing traffic to programs on our platform were too low. That's how we realized we had a problem with how information was structured on our program pages.

March 2, 2021

Low-code referral system

Educatly is a platform for young people to find their study abroad opportunity of their dreams. At this time, we wanted to make use of our engaged users to bring referrals to the platform. We were ready to incentivize this by offering monetary compensation for successful referrals. What we did not have were engineers to build an end-to-end referral system.

May 1, 2020

Navid Khataei

Support in bringing up low-cost easy-to-use Wordpress powered website.

October 10, 2020

Viral Foundry

I helped the team build a vision for product and set-up tracking and analytics to support that vision.

February 2, 2021

Product Strategy for Fave

Practical assignment for when I was applying for product management roles in 2019 and interviewing for Mindvalley.

January 15, 2021

Product Strategy for Mindvalley.com

Practical assignment for when I was applying for product management roles in 2019 and interviewing for Mindvalley.

September 11, 2020

How to plan your growth as a product manager (or product team)

For the past years, I have always been very reflective after one year in a job as this would usually be the time when I would move out of a role in a new one. I would think about the previous year, all the fuck-ups I had, how I’d grown, and what I would need to improve going into the new role.

July 16, 2020

You’ve just been promoted to Senior Product Manager. Now what?

There comes the time in the career of any product manager where the tools and trade you have been learning up until this point just do not cut it for you anymore.

August 15, 2020

How To Train Your New Associate Product Manager

If you work at a start-up or scale-up like me, you might not have an institutionalized training program set-up for product managers.

September 24, 2020

Lucia Schnee

Support in minor improvements on an existing personal website.

December 23, 2019

Mohamed Fadel

Support in bringing up a low-cost easy-to-use WordPress powered website.

August 16, 2020

How to make sure recruiters see your CV

People told me I was lucky when I got my dream job at Fave as Product Manager a year ago.

July 12, 2020

Why your product roadmap should not be a Gantt chart.

My introduction to roadmapping at my first product management job was a painful one.

January 2, 2020

Does Jira really suck?

Recently I went to a Product Manager Meetup and I couldn't help but notice that throughout the conversations almost everyone present complained about how much Jira sucks at least once - including myself.

December 19, 2019

How to build a low-cost high-performance marketing machine (Part 1)

Have you ever stood in awe just how some companies, products or websites are able to time their messages just right over multiple channels, or how their customer service knew just about everything about you? Apps send you push-notifications when you quit the app with items in your shopping cart, websites send you recommendations based on what you consumed before, etc...

December 10, 2019

How to know when to kill a project

Recently I found myself hands deep in a very promising project. There’s a business process involving the food ordering products I am currently managing, which requires us to manually create digital menus.

November 21, 2019

How to own a professional website at zero costs! (Part 2)

This is the second post in my two-part series of how I set out to create my own professional website at zero cost.

December 2, 2019

From 0 to 100%

About the struggle to introduce Scrum to an organization where top leadership positions change frequently.

November 16, 2019

How to own a professional website at zero costs! (Part 1)

Two weeks ago I set out to create my own online presence. I wanted to have a place where I could showcase my work, but also offer my services.

October 2, 2019

How to stay sane with your personal finances in South East Asia

When I moved to South East Asia, I knew that money will work a little differently. Coming from Germany I'm used to cash.

June 29, 2019

Getting things Done — Agile

I have always considered myself as someone who can get things done. Over the past years, I have refined my methods as my workload increased and the type of work I was doing became more managerial and strategical.

March 28, 2019

Virtual Agile Teams

In my role as VP Information Technology of the German national office of AIESEC, I was leading a team of 4 software developers who were living spread around Germany. We had been working on our projects that we had planned 6 months ago and things weren’t great in how our work was going.

April 2, 2019

How to get approval for Shadow Software

Shadow software is software that is being used in your organization that is not part of the standard software that is approved or recommended by the organization’s IT department.

July 6, 2019

Platform Governance

Good Governance creates wealth and fairly distributes it among all those who add value. This is achieved by properly utilizing Tools that are at hand for platform managers.

April 10, 2019

Developing AIESEC’s Mobile App in 6 months.

In a bottom-up process, our organization had determined that it is beneficial to create a product of set functionalities that would engage our users after they had purchased our service.

April 19, 2019

Gaining Permission to Lead

When I started my current role I got appointed as Data Protection Officer (DPO). With this came two main responsibilities

August 27, 2019

Scaling Development

Being responsible for technology in AIESEC is not easy. As a global organization with overall revenue of 30 Million Euro, less than 1% is spent on technology. While for the non-profit sector this is actually a normal figure, for an organization whose product is so much reliant on tech, it’s a disaster.

May 5, 2019

Scaling Customer Support

What happens when you open the floodgates to a direct line of customer support on a platform with 25.000 Daily Visitors?

March 17, 2019

Virtual Design Sprint

If you’re familiar with Jake Knapp’s (of Google Venture fame) framework of the Design Sprint (as described in the book of The Sprint), you will know that it’s a highly effective tool to quickly produce solutions to vague problem-sets.

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