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4 questions in Product Thinking.

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A grocery-delivery product in the mould of Instacart wants to replace "we will message you if an item is out of stock" with "we substitute automatically and you are never charged more". The product manager calls it a copy change. What has the business bought and what has it just agreed to pay for?

A workspace product's engineers propose an architecture optimised for flexibility, letting users model anything. What product-thinking questions should shape the decision?

An internal tool's users are required to use it. Which product signals still mean something, and which are worthless?

How would you know whether an internal platform is succeeding?