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7 deletions that matter more than a launch

Most competitive tracking watches for new things. But a removed pricing tier, a dropped logo, a deleted doc page — those say more than any launch post.

Aug 30

5 min

Q&A

Their JS bundle names features they haven't shipped

Route names, feature flags, and API paths ship to every browser that loads the app. Six questions about reading a competitor's front-end bundle.

Aug 29

4 min

Playbook

Your competitor watcher just gave notice

When the person who tracked your competitors leaves, the roster survives and the judgment doesn't. Five steps to move both before their last day.

Aug 28

5 min

Case Study

Calendly stopped being a scheduling link

A teardown of Calendly's public surfaces, and what the tier boundaries, trust center, and integrations directory reveal about the buyer it now sells to.

Aug 27

5 min

Opinion

Cancel your weekly competitive review

The weekly competitor review is a batching artifact from an era of slow information. Kill the meeting, fix the alerting, keep the quarterly one.

Aug 27

4 min

List

6 ways a competitor diff lies to you

Not every detected change is a real move. Six ways competitor diffs mislead you — A/B tests, geo pricing, CMS migrations — and how to tell them apart.

Aug 25

5 min

Field Note

The competitor we stopped competing with

Competitor lists get added to and never pruned. The real cost isn't wasted attention on the wrong names — it's the company nobody was watching.

Aug 23

3 min

Q&A

6 questions designers ask about competitor UX

Product designers rarely get invited to competitive intel. Six questions worth asking about a rival's UX, and where the real answers actually live.

Aug 22

4 min

Opinion

Affiliate terms leak more than a pricing page

Pricing pages are written for buyers. Affiliate terms are written for partners — and they quietly leak margin, CAC tolerance, and churn assumptions.

Aug 21

4 min

Playbook

A 30-minute dig for a competitor's subdomains

Certificate transparency logs list every subdomain a competitor has issued a cert for. A 30-minute playbook for turning that raw list into real signal.

Aug 20

5 min

Case Study