Converting Technical Expertise And Soft Skills Into Great Products
summary
Company builds Rabbits, an open‑source visual workflow tool for bioinformatics that moves from a desktop Electron app to a browser SaaS after users hit Windows/docker, corporate install‑restriction and sync friction. The genome history (13 years, $5B then; ~3 billion bases; now sequencing for hundreds of dollars into ~30GB files) motivates reproducibility and scale across petabytes of data. Team ships a stripped prototype in seven days, runs task‑based usability tests, and expands collaborators to fix UX, APIs and ops before full launch.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10First human genome sequenced
- 2:30Whats in these books
- 3:40How does it work
- 4:30The concept
- 5:40Unicorns
- 5:55Bioinformatics
- 7:05Presence Steps
- 8:10Bioinformatician
- 10:00Rabbits
- 11:25Matrix
- 11:45Rabbit
- 14:30Rabbit Cloud
- 14:50Why we should have failed
- 15:10How the project started
- 17:00Product vs Engineering
- 18:30Why we didnt fail
- 18:40How we started
- 22:50User interviews
- 26:30Step up as a product manager
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