Open to opportunities

I’m Daniel Mihaylov,
a product manager.

Here I share my opinions and learnings from work and experiments in Product, AI, and UX. I care deeply about decision-making frameworks, user engagement, and how needs and behaviors evolve in the age of AI.

Daniel Mihaylov

Open to opportunities

I’m Daniel Mihaylov,
a product manager.

Here I share my opinions and learnings from work and experiments in Product, AI, and UX. I care deeply about decision-making frameworks, user engagement, and how needs and behaviors evolve in the age of AI.

Daniel Mihaylov

Open to opportunities

I’m Daniel Mihaylov,
a product manager.

Here I share my opinions and learnings from work and experiments in Product, AI, and UX. I care deeply about decision-making frameworks, user engagement, and how needs and behaviors evolve in the age of AI.

Daniel Mihaylov

Start here

Read my writing

Articles and teardowns on discovery, trade-offs, and AI.

Work with me

Email me about a product role or a product problem.

Use the tools I use

Six small apps for writing, meetings, screenshots, and design.

Selected work

Case studies

What the problem was, what we decided, and how it went after launch.

Introducing Subscriptions

Pricing and packaging for a B2B software that had always been free.

Trip Planner: helping dispatchers maximize their profit per mile

Route optimization, empty-spot detection and load alerts, built into the trip a dispatcher was already planning.

Load Recommender

An ML matchmaking engine, using only data from regular usage

Custom Order Management

A configurable order grid, Saved Views and Custom Fields that let each carrier set up its order list for the way it works.

Blog

Articles for fellow product managers

Starting with the principles behind how I work. Teardowns, experiments, and shorter thoughts come next.

Principles

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3 min read

Users give AI a chance once the problem hurts enough

Before asking users to hand over control, understand what a manual task costs them and their risk tolerance. Help them try the agent, be transparent about its limits, and promote the control levers.

Principles

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4 min read

Bring engineering what users have already tested

Faster coding puts more responsibility on the PM. Test concepts with users before grooming so engineering can build with confidence.

Principles

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7 min read

Finding opportunities with techniques that check each other

Every way of finding opportunities has a blind spot. A signal is worth pursuing once a second technique, with a different blind spot, points the same way.