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Command AI (fka CommandBar) is being acquired by Amplitude

Command AI (fka CommandBar) is being acquired by Amplitude

Command AI is being acquired by Amplitude Today we have some major news to share: Command AI is being acquired by Amplitude. First, some context for our customers: the Command AI product remains operational and will continue to be indefinitely. Over time, we will be migrating key infrastructure to Amplitude,

From CommandBar to Command AI

From CommandBar to Command AI

When we started CommandBar back in 2020, we wanted to make software easier to use by using natural language.

The conservation of innovation

Startups: Stop innovating so damn much

We didn’t invent the chatbot. The chat interface we sell looks like, well, a chatbot. We more or less promise the same things (deflecting support tickets, freeing up support to focus on valuable stuff). Frankly, most things are just like any other chatbot. Except for a few things, which

Founders: Stop obsessing over deep work

Founders: Stop obsessing over deep work

I feel inadequate when I see many founders’ schedules. Their calendar has 2 blocks, mine looks like a game of Tetris. They have 4 hours of daily deep work, while I spend days responding to Slack pings. I sometimes feel guilty because the “sage advice” around deep work never stuck:

We found PMF. Here were the signs.

We found PMF. Here were the signs.

People make product-market-fit seem like this mythical thing you can pinpoint to an exact moment, but it’s never that.

5 learnings from making UX less annoying for 20M+ users

5 learnings from making UX less annoying for 20M+ users

For more war stories 👇 For more war stories 👇 We’re in a very unique position at Command AI. And I know we say that a lot, but that’s because the more companies we work with, the truer it becomes. Our customers don’t just have world-class product teams, they’

How we priced our AI SaaS product (and the mistakes we avoided)

Artificial Intelligence

How we priced our AI SaaS product (and the mistakes we avoided)

Learn if we change our pricing again 👇 Learn if we change our pricing again 👇 Steven Rothstein lined up for yet another one of his 10,000+ flights. But when a gate attendant handed him a letter, his life changed: After flying more than daily for 25 years, American Airlines was

Are we crazy? Making software work without making it annoying

Are we crazy? Making software work without making it annoying

For more of our hot takes 👇 For more of our hot takes 👇 Imagine you time-travelled to 1850 and met your great-great-great-great-great grandfather. After some introductory drinks at the saloon, he shows you his office at the local railroad, where he’s the bookkeeper. While you’re trying to decipher his

Command AI's seed deck, what we got right and wrong, 3 years later

Command AI's seed deck, what we got right and wrong, 3 years later

Last week I did a Reddit AMA on the r/ycombinator subreddit and answered questions about a recent article we wrote about our YC application from the S20 batch.

Grading Command AI’s YC application

Grading Command AI’s YC application

More self-praise and self-loathing 👇 More self-praise and self-loathing 👇 We went through YC in the S20 batch with Command AI. At the time, we were working on a different startup called codePost. We were excited about both ideas and saw YC as the way to break the tie. "If we

Here’s all the software we use at our Series A startup

Here’s all the software we use at our Series A startup

Many first-time founders struggle with figuring out what tools to use to build their products and manage company operations.

Announcing Command AI for Mobile

Announcing Command AI for Mobile

Stay up to date on our drops 👇 Stay up to date on our drops 👇 Personalized user assistance for any mobile web, native iOS, or Android app. For 3 years, we’ve been building user assistance tools for web and desktop apps. We resisted the obvious next step of building Command

Koyfin

Author: Rob Koyfman Company: CEO of Koyfin Subtitle: Building a product for a broad target market is hard - even harder if your competitors are entrenched corporations. Introduction: Building a product for a broad target market is hard. Even harder if your competitors are entrenched corporations. Even harder than that?

Why we built Copilot

Artificial Intelligence Featured

Why we built Copilot

Copilot is an embedded user assistant that teaches users how to use software interfaces and performs actions on their behalf

How to differentiate a thin GPT wrapper from a THICK GPT wrapper

Artificial Intelligence

How to differentiate a thin GPT wrapper from a THICK GPT wrapper

Understand 'GPT wrappers' vs. unique AI products. Learn key differentiation strategies and how brands like Notion gain an edge.

Hackathon marketing: One of the last undersaturated channels in B2B SaaS

Hackathon marketing: One of the last undersaturated channels in B2B SaaS

Learn exactly how CommandBar leverages hackathons to drive PLG and brand awareness.

Jam

Author: Dani Grant Company: CEO of Jam Subtitle: It's bug squashing time. Jam and the future of bug reporting. Introduction: On this episode of Happy Paths: Dani Grant from Jam.Dev, a bug reporting tool that’s used by over 30,000 people and that you’ve probably

How we achieved zero churn in a quarter

How we achieved zero churn in a quarter

Learn exactly what tactics CommandBar leaned into to achieve zero churn in a quarter.

Ingredient branding: A powerful strategy for enhancing product perception

Product Management

Ingredient branding: A powerful strategy for enhancing product perception

Discover the power of Ingredient Branding: how the strategy that propelled Intel to fame is reshaping product marketing, especially in tech.

Circa

Author: Matt Galligan Company: Founder of Circa Subtitle: It might be hard to believe, but smartphone notifications are a fairly new phenomenon, at least as we know them today. Introduction: It might be hard to believe, but smartphone notifications are a fairly new phenomenon, at least as we know them

Building Trello

Author: Justin Gallagher Company: Founding team, VP Product at Trello Subtitle: From side hustles to huge multinational corporations, teams of all sizes use project management tools to plan and execute their work. Introduction: Project management is one of the largest categories in all of software. From side hustles to huge

Snapchat AR

Author: Stephanie Engle Company: Lead AR Designer, Snap Subtitle: Augmented reality combines computer-generated virtual elements with the real world. Unlike virtual reality, AR enhances a person's perception of the real world instead of replacing it entirely. Snap, the company behind Snapchat, recognized the potential of AR early on.

Skin tones and product imagery

Author: Diógenes Brito Company: Staff Product Designer at Slack Subtitle: Sometimes, a feature announcement catches our attention, and it's often because of a well-designed graphic. Introduction: Every software company needs to announce new features…and some of us pay more attention to these announcements than others. Sometimes, a

Twitter spaces

Author: Maya Gold Patterson Company: Designer of Twitter Spaces Subtitle: Twitter wasn't the first company to get traction with a social audio product, but it quickly became a leader in the space, in no small part thanks to the work of Maya Gold Patterson, who was the Lead

The hashtag

Author: Chris Messina Company: Inventor of the Hashtag Subtitle: It's a truth universally known: every social network, from past, present, and future will include #hashtags. Introduction: What do TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have in common? It's the hashtag: invented by a man of the internet,