Non-bullshit insights on all things product and AI

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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July 2, 2025

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It’s Not Feedback If It Doesn’t Loop

Most teams capture feedback. Few close the loop. We say we’re listening. We tag. We track. We log. But that’s the easy part. The hard part is what happens next. This is a story about that part — and why it matters more than ever.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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June 25, 2025

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Write the Release Note First

Most teams write release notes at the end. What if you wrote them first? At Cycle, we found it changes everything – brings clarity, sharpens focus, and builds real trust with users. Here’s why this tiny habit might be your biggest unlock.

Thibaut Nyssens

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June 17, 2025

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Migrating from Productboard to Cycle: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

The Cycle team can handle this migration as part of your onboarding. However, if you prefer a DIY approach, this guide walks you through the entire process using Cycle’s API and some basic CSV transformations.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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June 10, 2025

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Care Compounds: Why We Took the Long Way at Cycle

Kevin Tassi

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June 3, 2025

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Scaling product ops at Fabriq with Cycle

How to transform fragmented Slack feedback into a self-serve “control tower” for customer insights

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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May 28, 2025

3

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Agentic Collaboration: The Future of Building with AI

Why the next generation of product builders won’t chase workflows — they’ll shape with agents.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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May 16, 2025

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Product Is About People

Why It's Time to Put the Customer Back at the Center

Thibaut Nyssens

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May 5, 2025

7

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Cycle vs. Enterpret – Choosing the Right Feedback System for Your Product Team

Considering Cycle & Enterpret to collect & analyze customer feedback? You've come to the right place. We've outlined the different approaches both tools take when it comes to building product.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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April 30, 2025

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When Should You Hire Your First PM?

Hard-earned lessons from the early days

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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April 18, 2025

5

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The Hidden Architecture of Great Product Orgs

Why your product taxonomy defines everything

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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April 10, 2025

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Cycles, not lines

The future of product work isn't linear. It spirals.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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September 17, 2024

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Founder mistakes and learnings for my younger self

I've made all the mistakes a founder can make. Here are some hard won learnings I would have loved to share with my younger founder self.

Thibaut Nyssens

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August 7, 2024

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Cycle vs. Dovetail: the ultimate comparison

A deep-down analysis comparing Cycle and Dovetail over the 5 components of a User Research tool

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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July 25, 2024

3

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Recency of your product feedback matters

Recency bias has bad press in product management literature. But when it comes to product feedback, it’s actually a good bias to have.

Thibaut Nyssens

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July 16, 2024

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Modern SaaS toolstack: The ultimate list of delightful tools every modern B2B SaaS needs in 2024

Modern teams lean towards a modular toolstack. They prefer integrating several high-quality tools over an all-in-one, often cumbersome, solution. We’ve curated a list of cutting-edge tools for B2B SaaS that are delightful to use and integrate well.

Kevin Tassi

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July 15, 2024

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Structured growth: Scaling Carbo’s teams and processes with Cycle

Carbo went from having a single PM to three product teams within a year, necessitating the creation of structured product processes and professional user feedback management. Cycle became the cornerstone of all their product operations to enhance efficiency. Discover what Carbo implemented and the benefits they gained.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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July 12, 2024

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Feedback loop velocity: a new way to measure the value of a product team

If the product isn't addressing the right market need or if the solution doesn't solve the problem effectively, then no amount of development or features will make the product successful. Every new feature in the wrong direction will only lead to wasted resources and time. Here is a new way to look at the value created by product teams.

Thibaut Nyssens

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July 8, 2024

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Cycle vs. Harvestr — the ultimate comparison

Thibaut Nyssens

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July 4, 2024

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Cycle vs. Airfocus — the ultimate comparison

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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July 4, 2024

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Why Your AI Needs a Warm-Up Lap: Lessons from Tesla

Tesla’s autopilot doesn’t work right away – you need 25-30km of driving to calibrate the cameras first. We've taken a similar approach at Cycle.

Kevin Tassi

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July 3, 2024

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The Amazon backward method with Cycle change-log

Amazon’s backward method starts with the end in mind. Instead of focusing initially on features and functionalities, this method begins by imagining the final product as if it has already been launched.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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June 25, 2024

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The “Bullshit AI” test

Here is a 3-steps framework that will help you gauge whether AI capabilities in a product are truly bringing a 10x value by improving existing core workflows.

Thibaut Nyssens

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June 25, 2024

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How to build effective product feedback loops

“Don't tell people your plans – show them your results.” The same applies to Product: don't tell customers about your roadmap – show them your release notes. The best way to create trust is to demonstrate your ability to ship new (relevant) stuff, fast.

Thibaut Nyssens

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June 13, 2024

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Public changelog best practices & examples: Make your product shine with stunning release notes

Changelogs aren't just lists of updates—they're a testament to a product team's ability to execute and get feature out the door. We studied the changelogs from modern tools across different industries and highlighted best practices to help you build your a stunning changelog.

Thibaut Nyssens

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May 27, 2024

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[PRD Template] How Intercom Writes Product Requirements Documents (PRD)

Ever wondered how a top-notch product org like Intercom writes a PRD? Here's their template. Use it on your Cycle workspace.

Thibaut Nyssens

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May 24, 2024

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Cycle vs. Productboard: Which one's right for you? AI features and data model comparison

Considering Cycle & Productboard to manage your customer feedback & roadmap? You've come to the right place. We've outlined the different approaches both tools take when it comes to building product.

Martin Delobbe

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May 6, 2024

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Prisma with PostgreSQL: the hard things about building a no code database

How we built a no-code relational database and how to do so with Postgres and Prisma

Kevin Tassi

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March 13, 2024

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AI on a real-time app is hard

Sneak peeking some advanced UX for the coexistence of AI within a real-time app

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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March 12, 2024

3

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Launching the first self-organizing feedback hub

An inside look at how Cycle takes care of processing your all of your product feedback, on autopilot.

Thibaut Nyssens

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March 12, 2024

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Product discovery on top of Linear

Crossing the chasm between customer feedback & issue trackers. Why you probably using a hammer for a screw.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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February 29, 2024

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Deconstructing PLG

PLG doesn't mean "self-serve", "freemium" nor is it the opposite of "sales-led". Here's everything you need to build (or adapt) your PLG motion.

Thibaut Nyssens

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February 19, 2024

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Stop counting feature requests

Feature voting boards fall short in many ways and might be misleading your product decisions. Here's why.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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February 13, 2024

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Building future proof data models: How Salesforce, Intercom and Cycle do it

How Cycle's data model enables your product workflows to grow with your team and processes

Thibaut Nyssens

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February 7, 2024

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[PRD Template] How Figma's VP Of Product Writes Product Requirements Documents (PRD)

Ever wondered how a top-notch product org like Figma writes a PRD? Here's the template Yuhki Yamashita, VP of Product at Figma, uses. Use it on your Cycle workspace.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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February 7, 2024

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Why Product Managers Are the Co-Founders, Not CEOs, of Their Products

Ben Horowitz wrote this article about Good versus Bad Product Managers using an analogy that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. I disagree. Here's why.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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January 17, 2024

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Cycle's story

The story behind Cycle, what it looked like in 2019, our $6M fundraise, and where we're going.

Thibaut Nyssens

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January 10, 2024

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Best Notion Alternative for Product Feedback

We love Notion. But it doesn't scale with product teams. That's why we built Cycle: a flexible feedback management tool designed with the best product minds out there.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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December 20, 2023

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Resilience, PH launches and my 3 biggest mistakes while building Cycle

Here're the highlights from my discussion with Anna Nadeina. We talked about Cycle's Product Hunt launches, why PLG didn’t work for us, and other mistakes I made while building Cycle.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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December 13, 2023

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Don't prioritize based on what people ask

Are you counting feature upvotes to help you prioritize what to ship? Here's our take on why you shouldn't.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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December 7, 2023

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The Product Manifesto: 15 principles to ship stuff people need

Our Product Manifesto collects what we consider the most important advice for (aspiring) product folks. There are as many ways to ship products as there are product teams but some principles are timeless.

Kevin Tassi

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November 27, 2023

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Exploring Airsaas: How our oldest customer utilizes Cycle from Discovery to Delivery

Discover how Airsaas leverages Cycle to transform client feedback into rapid, need-specific product enhancements, setting a new standard in responsive and tailored service delivery.

Kevin Tassi

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November 7, 2023

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Poppins' secret weapon for exceptional customer care

Explore how Poppins Care teams uses Cycle as their ultimate Care tool, integrated with the whole company processes.

Kevin Tassi

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October 24, 2023

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Requirements for a feedback system that scales : moka's deep dive

Delve into moka's insights on the essential elements for constructing a scalable feedback system.

Thibaut Nyssens

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October 10, 2023

7

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10 psychological nudges used by the best B2B SaaS to nail user onboarding

After going through 50+ B2B SaaS onboarding flows, I've came up with a solid list of 10 tricks you can add to your onboarding flow to boost user activation.

Martin Delobbe

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October 3, 2023

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Scaling GraphQL with Postgres - Lessons learned from our database timeout issues

A tech story about how we reached a > 99.95% uptime this year thanks to a couple of techniques.

Kevin Tassi

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September 26, 2023

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How eFounders and Hexa use Cycle to ship MVPs in 3 months.

Discover how eFounders and Hexa use Cycle to consolidate feedback, track feature development, facilitate internal meetings, and engage with the first customers.

Kevin Tassi

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August 29, 2023

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How Figures uses Cycle and nailed an efficient product delivery workflow thanks to Cycle

Discover how the adoption of Cycle revolutionized Figures' feedback management, leading to more focused and impactful product decisions while addressing scattered feedback, inefficiencies, and a lack of prioritization.

Kevin Tassi

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August 22, 2023

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How Choose built better products and enhanced Engagement with Cycle

Explore how Choose leveraged Cycle to enhance product decisions, quality, productivity, decision-making, and cross-team collaboration.

Kevin Tassi

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August 15, 2023

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How Epoch became even more customer-centric with Cycle

Discover how Epoch used Cycle to become foster cross-team collaboration and engagement, leading to an improved experience for both employees and customers, on top of solving challenges tied to scattered feedback sources and improving prioritization.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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February 27, 2023

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Announcing Cycle 1.0 and our $6M Funding

We’re excited to share that we are publicly launching Cycle 1.0 out of beta, and we raised $6M from Boldstart Ventures, eFounders, Base Case, The 20VC Fund, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Hummingbird Ventures, Script Capital, Tokyo Black, and 60 operator angels.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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October 23, 2019

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Launching Cycle beta ⚡️ 🚲

Today, after five months of silence and hard work, I finally get to announce the beta launch of Cycle, an all-in-one tool dedicated to product-centric teams.

Mehdi Boudoukhane

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October 14, 2019

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So you’re building a “Superhuman of X”?

By now you’ve probably heard of Superhuman, the invitation-only service that costs $30 a month and that promises the fastest email experience ever made.