Sachin Rekhi
sachinrekhi.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Sachin Rekhi is a product manager and entrepreneur who writes about product management, startups, and Y Combinator.
What HN saysHN commenters link his list of product management resources and his summary of the value of the Y Combinator experience, which one founder broadly agrees with.
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- 15Make Something People Will Buy (Corollary to YC's Make Something People Want)1 people · 5 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
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bibryam · 2023-12-03
I did. My path was: software engineer, consultant, architect, TPM - driven by desire to have impact and move one the moment I noticed stagnation of personal growth.
Definitely having technical background helps with managing products that are highly technical or for technical users.
W/o going into the whole rabbit hole of PMing, here are a few links I found useful on my journey
Must read book https://twitter.com/bibryam/status/1629768021391572995
Most popular PM podcast https://www.lennyspodcast.com/
https://www.sachinrekhi.com/top-resources-for-product-managers
I was lucky to attend many courses here pragmaticinstitute.com
That alone is a lot to read. Good Luck!
firatcan · 2022-03-10
Great something I can comment on;
Here's the links I think you might found useful - They're not books, but videos, newsletters and articles. -
- https://producthabits.com/
- https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/
- https://www.ycombinator.com/library/?categories=Product
- https://twitter.com/shreyas (Read this guys tweets)
- https://www.sachinrekhi.com/
- https://coda.io/@yuhki/figmas-approach-to-product-requirement-docs (And lastly CODA library, there are a lot of PM docs over here which explains how companies like Figma manage their PRD, just copy the process and simplfy it. Don't use them how they use like. Why? Because you don't need that complicated process w/ 6 people)
In terms of books, there are only few great ones like;
- Hooked by Nir Eyal
- Inspired by Marty Cagan
- Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (Not a PM book but you should read as a PM)
nelsonic · 2020-04-11
Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers: https://www.sachinrekhi.com/top-resources-for-product-managers
martinkl · 2010-12-21
YC was (and is continuing to be) very valuable for us. Sachin Rekhi has written up a good summary, which I broadly agree with: http://www.sachinrekhi.com/blog/2009/02/26/the-value-of-the-ycombinato… -- and I would add to the list of benefits the massive network of the YC partners, who will happily make valuable intros.
Many other companies in our batch soon launched too, so we soon all ended up at pretty much the same stage.