Linda Xie on Warpcast

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When I was at Coinbase one of my roles was PM for internal tools. I feel like internal tools is so underrated, the feeling you get when you help build something that saves your coworkers hours of manual work each week and they are incredibly happy / relieved was super fulfilling

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@dwr.eth @v example of a cast with a lot of spam before show more replies (hasn't really been an issue for me lately except a few cases)

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i feel this, i built hundreds of interal tools for large real estate teams and brokerages, it's rewarding

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Some of the most fun I had at Google was building internal tools that would help folks across the company from SVPs to PMs and SWEs make data driven decisions. Since the tools weren't user facing it was easier to iterate on them than when I worked on user facing features.

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+1 internal tools = super duper IP internal tools are the magic the stories behind them that no one ever hears until years later

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former internal tools pm as well. its really fun and rewarding automating something for teammates... and super easy to rapidly iterate when your users are in same office/slack!

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retool is my favorite tool to help with internal tool dev

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As someone who works a lot on building internal tools, this makes me feel really nice! I don't hear it as much as I should from coworkers, probably because I work remotely

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Wow we have something else in common. I loved working on internal tools. One of the things I used to tell my team was about how our work was interesting because we touched so much of the company- we built tools for finance, HR, customer support, engineering, services, etc. We learned so much about how a company operates. And thus it was a very transferable skill set.

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Very very well said and I wholeheartedly agree. Internal tools not only help cut costs and facilitate organizational effectiveness, they also can serve as a staging ground for platform features that revenue-driving products can consume.

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100% I remember a tool I worked on had saved the org and specifically a depart thousands of hours and 3 ppl I knew in that department were able to get promoted bc they had way more extra time now and did higher level work.

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What internal tools u are building/have built that helped a lot? Love to know

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Building internal tools is essential for medium/big size companies. I wonder how different the PM role is? I can imagine that it's easier to discover what to build, the feedback loop is fast and valuable.

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+1, built internal tools that powered the core product at my last job. super fun bc user interviews are a slack message away..

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yesss !!! could not agree more. @bchow did this for me at goldfinch a number of times, same with @dgs and @gregan and one time even @greg helped me and it made my life so much easier and better

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I think /explorer is technically a internal tool right @rish 😂

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Also worked on internal platform tooling for my first 2 years at Twilio. Was great to be able to walk over and talk with customers on demand.

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As someone who's built internal tools I couldn't agree more. Internal tools are also the ultimate dogfooding experience. I know an agency that eventually pivoted to selling their internal tool and sold their agency after it brought in more revenue.

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💯 Also: https://warpcast.com/timigod.eth/0x616b5f5d

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Majority of my career has been internal tools, I love it. Used to be the only dev on a team of 30 analysts. Saved a month of work by building a web app in a couple days so that we didn't need to send spreadsheets to 100 people and then combine/correct all the data manually. We had already done it once and it sucked.

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