Sounds like a good reason to release an HN clone for PMs - or use the r/ProductManagement or r/prodmgmt forums on Reddit in a more consistent manner. I'm all for sharing best practices too - but they're locked in my Google Keep without real sharing capability. SMH.
I can spin a clone up tonight if there is enough interest, cause it's something I think would be valuable. That said, we tried this before specifically for longer form hacker news discussions [1] and it died in less than a year.
Not sure how to guage interest without seeming spammy, people can email me or just upvote this comment I suppose.
What would a potential url be? Suspect it would be useful to keep the ycombinator “brand”.
So maybe a sub-site like “pm.ycombinator.com”? Mentioning it here to see what others think...
Edit: Another thought: what if there was a way to “set” an option which would “filter” ycombinator depending I your background interest? When submitting you “tag” of relevant to an area (such as pm, software dev, testing, etc). If you set your interest levels at the top, it will automatically prioritize items based on interest, but allow general interest items to remain on top. (Also avoids issue of second website to visit)
I wouldn’t do it until we had a way of enforcing the no-fluff rule - even more so than generic up/down voting. I wish there was an ArXiV for this type of knowledge.
The key challenge there is that while scientists are expected to produce papers and to review papers, product managers are not expected to do so.
We're expected to manage our products (which makes lots of sense), but that leaves us little time to curate a neutral and high-quality repository of product management knowledge.
While I've done my best to share my knowledge in my spare time (I've published 50+ articles at Product Manager HQ), I strongly believe there's a systemic challenge at play here.
Many of my colleagues are insanely good at what they do, yet they haven't written any articles on product management because that behavior isn't incentivized.
