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Product updates, practical guides, and lessons from building and running our own WordPress plugins and Micro-SaaS products. Discover what’s new, what works, and what we’re learning along the way.

Collaborative Mapping: When Maps Become Shared Knowledge

Collaborative mapping turns a map from a static source of information into a shared space where communities can contribute, update and improve what others see. Traditional maps are usually created by a single organization and published for people to consume. Collaborative maps work differently: users can add locations, report changes, contribute local knowledge or update…

Behind the Product Studio: Building Products Before Building Them for Others

100plugins Product Studio is built on a simple idea: the best way to help someone build a software product is to have built, launched and maintained products yourself. Software development is only one part of building a successful product. Before the first line of code is written, decisions have to be made about the problem,…

What Makes a Good MVP? How to Decide What to Build First

A good MVP is not a smaller version of the finished product. It is the smallest version that can prove whether the core idea actually creates value. When developing a new software product, one of the hardest decisions is not what to build. It is what not to build. Ideas tend to grow quickly. A…