Derek Zumsteg
derekzumsteg.bsky.social
Derek Zumsteg
@derekzumsteg.bsky.social
Product Management, mostly
Honeycomb Credit's "processing fees" for bank payments are *wild* -- they're paying a flat fee for bank payments, and it is not $50. Or $5. This just... an insane amount of extra fee they're extracting here.

And Honeycomb is already charging fees on the other parts of this transaction --
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Posted that blog to LinkedIn, saw it get immediately buried, as nearly all "contains link to external content" suffers from, and out of frustration, I posted this linked-in style update. I feel gross.
July 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Increasingly deranged product description for bulk, cheap softballs concludes with scaring you and then reminding us of the value of human connection:
June 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
NASA's concept Origins Space Telescope will for life on exoplanets using the mid-infrared spectrum: vast distances of space to a resolution of a millionth of a meter, the diameter of a human hair. It could still not detect my interest in receiving fundraising requests from James Carville.
May 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Lies Google has told me, a continuing series:
April 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Testing using AI tools to summarize customer feedback. tldr; potentially useful, you still have to do the reading, because there's still a lot they're missing. Like poison!

www.zumsteg.net/2025/04/11/c...

#productmanagement #ai #chatgpt #claude #grok #gemni
April 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Has anyone, ever, gotten an email with a subject line like this and thought "oh thank God, finally, what a joy and relief, can't wait to see this"
March 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Cold email tactic o' the day: "it's not that I want to bug you, it's my boss" trying to capitalize on your sympathy for others.
November 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM