THE HOTFIX Podcast

Stories about failed features and products.

The
Brief

Success in software development is built on iteration and constant learning.

It's a journey where, by embracing steps in a wrong direction and reflecting on them, we continue to improve, creating better versions of ourselves and our products.

Welcome to Hotfix, where we reveal the backstories of features, initiatives, or even entire product launches that didn't go how the creator would have liked.

They are those unfiltered truths—moments in product development that either underperform or just don't do what is expected of them.

Every episode, we sit down with some of the best product minds in the business for stories of failure. What happened? We deconstruct why it happened and, most notably, what's been learned. Let's learn, grow, and build better.

Your Hosts

Stefan
Pernek

Stefan Pernek is the VP of Product at Cosuno and the Founder of PP Partners, where he specializes in guiding B2B SaaS scaleups through rapid growth. He has extensive experience leading product teams across various stages of development and shares his insights through a dedicated B2B SaaS newsletter at productpropaganda.com.

Christoph
Bodenstein

Christoph is Director of Product at Adverity, one of Vienna's fastest growing B2B SaaS scale-ups. He's a big advocate of hypothesis-driven development. On weekends he's running a one-person digital marketing agency for Shopify stores. Sometimes you might be also able to catch him as a DJ in Vienna!