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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by tmpz22 on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:01PM (#24663968)
Developers are rewarded for features, PMs are rewarded for happy customers. It’s usually that simple. Especially in companies where you are rewarded with promotions and bonuses this value proposition rules the entire product. See for example Google’s entire product portfolio.

It’s promotion-driven-development.

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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by jcims on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:40PM (#24664390)
>Developers are rewarded for features, PMs are rewarded for happy customers.

I generally feel that most things are best when they are in some kind of healthy tension. Appeasing power users happens because it appears to align with both of the above.

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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by naavis on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:05PM (#24664006)
I think most developers already have the mindset before working in any company. Maybe the mindset propels them towards computers and software development.
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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by MattGaiser on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:10PM (#24664060)
If you are developing stuff as a hobby, new features are still the reward.
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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by sanderjd on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:45PM (#24667336)
You think? When I do hobby work, the reward is getting to spend as much time as I want tweaking things to be a nice as I want them to be. Which is why I've never made anything, but have had lots of fun and learned a lot.
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