Magdoub

Hi 👋 I'm Mahmoud El-Magdoub. My job is to translate technology into happiness.

I’m drawn to technology for a lot of the same reasons that I’m drawn to product management, it feels like a deeply human endeavor to wrangle complex problems and answer the why with user-understanding and data.

I have been building SaaS products for the past 15 years, my experience covers consumer web products visited by millions, CRM Automation and Enterprise tools.

Although I worked in different industries, my core direction has been the same, I help product teams answer these three questions:

1. What people problem are we trying to solve?
2. How do we know this is a real problem?
3. How will we know if we’ve solved this problem?

I thrive in uncertainty and "maker cultures" where prototyping and experimenting are the norm. I love the satisfaction that comes from shipping products and sharing that feeling with a close-knit team.

I run Product at Luciq, working with a great team on building mobile developer tools at scale. Previously, I led product at Forasna & Wuzzuf. Before that, I co-founded Soutak.

Outside of work, I work with startups in the ecosystem to solve problems. In general, I love creating things, working with nice people, listening to indie music and reading HN.

Workshops // Content

• 
  Podcast: Product Management from B2B to Marketplaces

  Duration: 1.5hrs | 90k+ views
  Lessons I learned while building products across industries.

• 
  Video Playlist: Building Products with Claude Code

  Duration: 1hr
  This playlist helps PMs in understanding how to utilize Claude Code for building products.

• 
  Testing Ideas Faster

  Duration: 45mins
  Going over different methods on how to test ideas faster + the idea of pretotypes.

• 
  Your 6 step Guide on how to Write Killer Specs

  Duration: 3hrs
  This session is a 6 step guide for guiding Product Managers into a framework for writing specs that will allow them to ship high quality software.

• 
  Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

  Duration: 45mins
  Throughout my life I was curious about understanding "Where do good ideas come from?" This sessions goes through some ideas that I researched

• 
  Diaries of Bad Manager (Comic)

  This was a comic series I did to tackle the mistakes that first time managers do, due to lack of experience.

• 
  Product Managers and Designers: A Sad Love Story

  My thoughts on how Product Managers and Designers can work together. Luckily, I have been in both worlds by working as both a designer and a product manager. And while this love/hate relationship does not seem to end anytime soon I believe there's a better way.

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  [Video] Building Sticky Products that Last

  Duration: 45mins
  The session was a recap on how Wuzzuf and Forasna reached the product/market fit and how each approach was different. The talk will go through on how to understand/predict/change user-behavior whether using ad-hoc tactics, reverse psychology or through crunching the weird daily numbers.

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  [Podcast] How To Get Intro Product Management?

  Duration: 30mins

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  [Podcast] Should Product Managers Get Certified?

  Duration: 40mins

• 
  Google Slides Libary

  Templates That help in building quick and neat slides whether it's for a dry run or highedn slidedeck.

• 
  A Business Case Study on Real-Estate for OLX Middle East (Arabia)

  This was an analysis I did to help OLX Arabia grow their revenues in the real-estate vertical

• 
  A Business Case Study on DoorDash in the US Market

  Doordash is the largest food delivery app in the US, this was was an analysis to understand their buisness model

I Believe

• UI should drive product development because it's what people actually use
• Innovating on behalf of the customer and shipping Thoughtful high quality work is what matters
• "Shipping is all that matters" makes your product look like crap.
• you can only win if you're hungrier than your competitor
• UI is software, so designers should know(or understand) how to program
• There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple
• Innovation is everything BUT an overnight success/breakthrough

People that Inspired my work.

• Dieter Rams: Good Functional Design // Declutter
• Ben Horowitz & Ken Norton: Product Managment
• Paul Graham: Surviving Startups
• Julie Zhuo: Product Design that Works
• Ian McAllister: Prioritizing Features
• Jason Wilson: Grid Design

Specialties

SaaS, Product Management, UX Design and Strategy, Web Analytics, Statistical Analysis, Product Design, Product Development and Pricing, SQL Mining, Retention Strategies, Agile Dev, Startups, Business Development, Online Marketing, Frontend Development, Tech writing.

Let's Talk

Drop me an email on hello@magdoub.com