Product 2

Field notes from the Globex rollout, the follow-up

It would pay for itself in the first month. This is table stakes in every competing product we evaluated. How it works. Not urgent, but it would save everyone about an hour a week…

LALars Delgado1 min read

It would pay for itself in the first month. This is table stakes in every competing product we evaluated.

How it works

Not urgent, but it would save everyone about an hour a week. Even shipping it behind a flag would let us validate the approach.

What changes

A rough first version would already be a big improvement. We would stop exporting to a spreadsheet every Friday.

What changes

It was the first thing our new hires tripped over. Our response times would improve without adding headcount. A rough first version would already be a big improvement.

Step by step

The current flow takes six clicks; it should take one. It would let us retire an internal tool nobody wants to maintain.

curl -sS https://api.example.test/v2/boards \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BULLETIN_API_KEY"

Step by step

It would pay for itself in the first month. Customers ask about this on nearly every onboarding call. We raised this during the pilot and it is still the main gap.

  1. Enable post templates.
  2. Enable dark mode.
  3. Enable an audit log.
  4. Enable Zapier triggers.
curl -sS https://api.example.test/v2/items \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BULLETIN_API_KEY"
  • performance
  • notifications
  • mobile
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