Notes, lessons, and experiments from our journey building Encatch.
Building an MCP for Encatch started with the wrong question. Here's how we worked backwards from the product manager's workflow, shipped it live, and what we're watching next.
Heeral Fernandes
Embedded AI is often limited and locked to the platform. Analyse with AI lets you export Encatch feedback data with a ready-made prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any AI you already use.
Heeral Fernandes
Your dev queue is full, your feedback idea is on hold. Again. This guide shows PMs how to collect high-quality in-app feedback independently, no dev ticket, no form-builder headache. Set up a triggered micro-survey in under 30 minutes. Real benchmarks included.
Evanne
Most PMs run feedback in bursts and wonder why it doesn't stick. Here's a realistic 90-day calendar, when to survey, who to target, and exactly what to ask, built for PMs running solo with a 30-minute window, not a research team.
Evanne
Most early-stage SaaS teams discover user friction way too late, after churn already shows up in the numbers. Here's how 3 teams missed obvious friction signals hiding inside their own product, and what a 14-day feedback window could have changed for all three. If you build, you need to read this.
Evanne
You shipped. Users came. Then… silence. No feedback loop at launch doesn't just mean missing data, it means shipping blind for months. Here's the real cost, and why most PMs only figure it out after they've already lost those first users.
Evanne
You sent the survey, got 200 responses, opened the spreadsheet once. Sound familiar? The survey tool market is built to collect data, not to give you actual signal. Here's what's really broken, why CAPTCHA at $199/mo is just one symptom, and what a feedback system that actually works looks like.
Evanne
NPS tells you what already went wrong, not what's about to. See why PMs and founders are ditching it and which real-time signals actually prevent churn.
Evanne
You ran the survey, you got the responses. Then nothing happened. If your feedback is collecting dust in a spreadsheet or dying in a Slack thread, this $0 audit tells you exactly where the system broke, and what to fix before running another survey.
Evanne
Public app reviews often expose billing, policy, support, and operations failures. In-app feedback gives customers a private path to resolution before frustration becomes a one-star review.
Godwin Pinto
Onboarding enrichment surveys are useful, but timing matters. Ask after users reach value, then use events, segmentation, and context to personalize what happens next.
Godwin Pinto
Security email addresses create reporting friction. Pair them with a purpose-built form so users can report faster and security teams get structured, actionable data.
Heeral Fernandes
Helpful buttons become analytics events. GitHub links create friction. Encatch lets readers share what is broken, confusing, or missing without leaving the page.
Godwin Pinto