Bruno Pedro
Product
2026 (9)
Aug 31
Naftiko about the mainstream adoption of Capabilities
Apr 14
Cloudflare’s CLI is generated from a product schema
Apr 12
An API is a conversation between you and your users
Many product managers ship a feature and then wait for support tickets to arrive. This reactive approach means you only hear from the users …
Mar 31
An API is a business model, not just a technical interface
Too many teams think about monetization as an afterthought once the API is popular. This leads to awkward pricing changes that alienate …
Mar 17
An API is the foundation, not the byproduct
Many organizations build their UI first and then “expose” an API as an afterthought. This results in an interface that is …
Mar 13
An API needs more than just uptime metrics
Most managers look at requests per second or latency to judge success. These are engineering metrics, not product metrics. They tell you if …
Mar 6
An API needs a specific persona to succeed
Most teams design for a generic “developer” and wonder why adoption is low. A frontend engineer and a data scientist have …
Mar 4
An API is a product of ongoing discovery
Most teams treat user research as a phase that ends before development starts. In a large organization, user needs can change as soon as …
Mar 3
An API is not just a promise of value
Most teams obsess over the business case but ignore production readiness. In a large company, an API that cannot scale is just technical …
2025 (4)
Jul 18
The best way to predict the future is to create it
Mar 26
Scale is rarely the first signal of important work
Jan 27
The growing role of API Product management
Jan 22
Toss a coin and move on
2024 (11)
Sep 10
Everyone else tried to build what they thought they could sell to advertisers or CTOs.
Sep 8
Found at “API Complexity Is a Lie - by Bruno Pedro” on 2024-09-08 14:58:42 +02:00. Anyone telling you that working with APIs is hard …
Jul 3
Found at “The Reasons for Using HTTP POST or PUT | API Evangelist” on 2024-07-03 16:51:12 +02:00. Why Stripe API uses HTTP POST when it …
Jun 17
Teaching is learning
You learn more than you think when you’re teaching
Jun 10
In the future of AI users will never see the prompt or the output
May 28
Found at “WP21 | Matt Mullenweg” on 2024-05-28 12:28:50 +02:00. Everyone developing and making decisions for software needs to use it.
Apr 25
I’m writing a piece about how documentation can also be a source of friction. Documentation has its undeniable value, especially when it …
Mar 3
Found at “The Beautiful Mess | John Cutler | Substack” on 2024-03-03 16:10:51 +01:00. The thought process was not put in writing or …
Jan 29
Found at “How many product managers are there? - by Mikhail Shcheglov” on 2024-01-29 14:56:19 +01:00. How many product managers are there …
Jan 17
Found at “Bottom-line benefit of the product operating model | McKinsey” on 2024-01-17 15:45:52 +01:00. Organizations with high product …
Jan 9
The idea of a whole product is that a customer’s job-to-be-done can’t be delivered by a single generic product. Instead, it …
2023 (30)
Dec 20
Found at “Good Product ManagerBad Product Manager | Andreessen Horowitz” on 2023-12-20 10:26:19 +01:00. Good product managers define good …
Nov 24
Found at “The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work — Ludicity” on 2023-11-24 18:16:15 +01:00. You can try all you want to reduce the …
Nov 9
How an API can increase the retention rate
Why is retention rate so important and how can an API help increase it?
Oct 24
Found at “Writerside - a new technical writing environment from JetBrains.” on 2023-10-24 11:21:28 +02:00. Use a single authoring …
Oct 23
APIs as the engine of intent-based UIs
APIs as the engine of intent-based UIs.
Oct 18
Found at “Launch HN: Pier (YC W23) – Stripe for Credit | Hacker News” on 2023-10-18 21:49:56 +02:00. Pier is an API for launching credit …
Oct 11
API Product Discovery calls
Product discovery calls are a crucial part of a successful API.
Oct 9
Skills of an API product manager
Should API Product Managers be tech-savvy or business-focused?
Oct 8
Single-feature API
A single-feature API offers a unique value proposition.
Oct 5
Found at “Intercom on Product: Product strategy in the age of AI - The Intercom Blog” on 2023-10-05 10:57:40 +02:00. As new AI-native …
Sep 29
Found at “apidays-apidocsplaybookstrategyinterviewsbusiness-founder-attendee-2023-09-29.md at main · bpedroapidays-api” on 2023-09-29 …
Sep 28
Creating the apidays public API
I’m starting my journey building the apidays public API and I need your help!
Sep 26
Audience
The audience needs to be specific.
Sep 21
Building the apidays API
Building the apidays API.
Sep 18
Finding product and engineering alignment in highly technical companies
Finding product and engineering alignment in highly technical companies
Sep 14
API AARRR funnel
DX is just part of the story when it comes to managing an API product.
Aug 12
It’s interesting that API Product Management is gaining adepts.
Aug 11
Found at “Why are API Product Managers Hard to Find?” on 2023-08-11 22:38:23 +02:00. API product management is a unique and nuanced form of …
Jul 14
Found at “Benefit Layers: How to avoid sales fluff in devtools” on 2023-07-14 09:46:30 +02:00. similar to a Five Why analysis, with each …
Jul 8
Within a product development project, prototypes are used for four purposes: learning, communication, integration, and milestones.—Product …
Jun 27
What is API Usability?
Let’s look at the bottom layer of the API Hierarchy of Needs and try to understand what API Usability really means.
Jun 25
API evolution is a Product Management concern
Jun 9
What is the unit of value in APIs?
Building a platform to power a marketplace of APIs is interesting both from a product and a technical …
May 31
Found at “What I Learned From Interviewing Potential Users Before Designing an API | Postman Blog” on 2023-05-31 23:24:01 +02:00. My post …
May 17
Areas of Product Management
I find this an interesting way of seeing Product Management:
Product vision describes the destination. Product strategy defines which …
May 17
Found at “3 Persona Types: Lightweight, Qualitative, and Statistical” on 2023-05-17 11:14:27 +02:00. There are 3 different ways that teams …
Feb 8
Found at “WTF is API Product Management?” on 2023-02-08 10:17:58. A good API product manager needs to be able to properly identify product …
Jan 9
Found at “What is an API Product? Design better APIs with a product mindset” on 2023-01-09 17:39:18. “API Products” are mentioned …
Jan 9
Found at “GTM and Strategy.pdf - Google Drive” on 2023-01-09 17:37:46. How competitive is the industry? Are there existing customers?
Jan 9
Found at “Where the fastest-growing Product Management teams share …” on 2023-01-09 17:33:47. Sharebird helps you discover tips and best …
2022 (10)
Nov 10
Found at “Only Solve One New Problem At A Time” on 2022-11-10 19:01:34. The whole point of running a company is to solve problems. As Alex …
Oct 25
Found at “Why falling in love with the problem is one of the most important aspects of Design Thinking” on 2022-10-25 12:51:45. Falling in …
Oct 19
Found at “Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering” on 2022-10-19 11:10:58. The key to any successful startup is close collaboration between …
Oct 4
Found at “9 Best Books on Product Management in 2022” on 2022-10-04 16:05:15. Here is the reading list that only involves the best books …
Oct 4
Found at “What Are Good Traits That Make A Great API Product Managers | Moesif Blog” on 2022-10-04 15:50:54. API product management is a …
Oct 4
Found at “API Product Management | Toptal” on 2022-10-04 15:29:42. A successful API strategy isn’t about building products; it’s about …
Apr 4
Found at “Product Management Playbook. A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Product… | by Jonathan Moed | Medium” on 2022-04-04 15:43:10. This …
Mar 25
Found at “The API Product Mindset” on 2022-03-25 12:20:44. The API team manages APIs across their entire API lifecycle, including …
Mar 7
Found at “One-man band - Wikipedia” on 2022-03-07 11:24:34. A one-man band is a musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously …
Jan 23
Found at “Reflecting on a Career in Product Management” on 2022-01-23 09:24:52. There was no grandeur to product management in those days. …