https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/On the quest to master my craft — a pragmatic product management journey.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/llm-wiki-framework-with-claude-code/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/llm-wiki-framework-with-claude-code/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTUsing Claude Code as a long-term knowledge manager: an Obsidian wiki that Claude maintains from raw source documents, plus the ticket, design, and meeting workflows built on top.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/boxnow-x-instacar/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/boxnow-x-instacar/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTShipping car key delivery through BoxNow lockers at instacar — a self-service pickup flow that touched the app, our internal fleet tooling, and external webhooks.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/instacar-featured-by-microsoft-clarity/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/instacar-featured-by-microsoft-clarity/Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTinstacar made it into an official Microsoft Clarity case study — an unexpected result of writing up how the team uses behavioral analytics.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/i-built-consumed-a-chrome-extension/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/i-built-consumed-a-chrome-extension/Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTA lazy-afternoon side project built with Cursor: a Chrome extension that turns prices on Greek e-commerce sites into hours of your life.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/dont-sleep-on-microsoft-clarity/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/dont-sleep-on-microsoft-clarity/Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTAfter three years using Microsoft Clarity for instacar's product optimization: how behavioral evidence turns 'what happened' analytics into 'why it happened' product decisions.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/building-a-pokemon-tracker/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/building-a-pokemon-tracker/Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTShipping a match-tracking app for Pokémon TCG Pocket in about 4 hours with Lovable — where AI tooling flew, where I still had to think like an engineer.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/how-i-learn-new-things/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/how-i-learn-new-things/Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTA practical research stack: one precise prompt, run across multiple LLMs, consolidated in NotebookLM and a mind map — built to resist single-source bias.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/yearly-recap-2024/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/yearly-recap-2024/Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTA visual recap of everything we shipped at instacar in 2024 — making leasing easier, more flexible, and more user-friendly.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/boldiebot-daily-script/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/boldiebot-daily-script/Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTA small Python script that pushes daily GA4 metrics into Slack for non-analytical teams — so company performance shows up without anyone opening an analytics tool.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/carboldie-game/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/carboldie-game/Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTBuilding a simple 8-bit browser game around our company mascot with Claude as a patient coding teacher — canvas, collision detection, power-ups, and every mistake along the way.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/feeling-the-disconnect/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/feeling-the-disconnect/Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTWhen you're moving fast on a million things at once, ownership slips. Some thoughts on why the disconnect happens on a team — and how to close it.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/the-art-of-fast-delivery/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/the-art-of-fast-delivery/Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTA talk co-presented at Product Tank Athens on the mechanics and philosophy behind instacar's culture of velocity — empowerment, meetings, strategy over OKRs, and doing over planning.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/a-smooth-release/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/a-smooth-release/Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTHow instacar shipped 12- and 24-month leasing plans: from customer signal to design to a cross-team launch — and why a smooth release is a compound-effect story.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/internal-resistance/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/internal-resistance/Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTHow instafleet went from a tool various departments were skeptical of to one they rely on — by involving people early, through Ticket Master and co-speccing features.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/embracing-second-level-thinking/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/embracing-second-level-thinking/Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTLaurence Endersen's second-level thinking — probing past the obvious first answer — and why it's invaluable in product management.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/how-many-weeks-do-you-have-left/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/how-many-weeks-do-you-have-left/Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTA four-line Python program that quantifies your life in weeks — and a small nudge, from product management's forward-looking world, to be present.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/1st-instacar-hackathon/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/1st-instacar-hackathon/Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTOur first hackathon — product, marketing, and tech in one room for a day, building LeaseAi, an AI-driven chatbot, with a 'less is more' design philosophy.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/prophet-forecasting/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/prophet-forecasting/Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTA step-by-step walk through forecasting and anomaly detection with Prophet in a Colab notebook — from data format to fitting a model to reading the components.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/be-the-problem-solver-in-the-room/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/be-the-problem-solver-in-the-room/Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTTwo reminders I hold close in stressful cross-functional meetings, carried over from my marketing days: be prepared, and be the problem solver in the room.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/velocity-over-everything/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/velocity-over-everything/Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTNotes on Geoff Charles (VP Product at Ramp) on team velocity and single-threaded teams — and why we're taking a calculated bet on a similar structure at instacar.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/slack-ruined-by-new-ui/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/slack-ruined-by-new-ui/Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTSlack's redesign 'built for focus' — from a user's chair, merged workspaces and gradient colors feel weird, and I didn't know I needed any of it.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/i-hired-my-first-pm/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/i-hired-my-first-pm/Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTThe Ledger Assessment Method: ask candidates to rebuild the core of a product you already use, and watch how they think about product entities — not the tech.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/geekbot-is-a-silent-hero/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/geekbot-is-a-silent-hero/Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTSwapping the early-morning standup for an async, text-based check-in via Geekbot — keeping the benefits of the daily standup while ditching the downsides.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/ancient-greeks-and-ux/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/ancient-greeks-and-ux/Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTUX might look like a product of the digital age, but the ancient Greeks were doing it — in architecture, ergonomic tool design, and the Socratic method.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/product-capitalization-sucks/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/product-capitalization-sucks/Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTMy first product capitalization process — the mistakes to avoid, the rule of thumb, and why (despite everything) it's a valuable exercise for resource allocation.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/til-aim-assemble-achieve/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/til-aim-assemble-achieve/Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTThe AAA framework Shopify's product team uses to clarify responsibilities on projects — separating the person who aims from the ones who assemble and achieve.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/til-chatgpt-is-getting-worse/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/til-chatgpt-is-getting-worse/Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTA Stanford/Berkeley paper evaluating the March vs. June 2023 versions of ChatGPT across four tasks — and finding its behavior drifts a lot over time.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/outwork-everyone/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/outwork-everyone/Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTOutworking isn't about competition or long hours — it's the discipline of outworking your past self, tied to deep work and consistency.https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/the-reset/https://dimosthenisavgeris.com/posts/the-reset/Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTSwapping the office view for a beach on Amorgos. A reset isn't a vacation — it's a mindful choice to step away, recharge, and come back with a new perspective.