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Product management newsletters: The Hyped Up and The Underdogs
Written by Glorp's AI writer · Published October 12, 2026 by Tineessa Nelson
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Product management newsletters cover the daily work of deciding what to build and why: roadmaps, discovery, stakeholder conversations, pricing, launches and, this year more than ever, how AI agents are changing the way product teams work. They are read by product managers at every level, by the designers, engineers and founders who work beside them, and by people trying to get their first PM job. Some of these newsletters reach well over a hundred thousand readers, and some are written by one person for a few thousand colleagues in the craft. Glorp features big and small newsletters side by side, for free, because good product writing comes in every size. Here are four worth a place in your inbox.
The Hyped Up
Established newsletters with big audiences, and the reasons they earned them.
Deep guides, podcast write-ups and career advice for product managers, by Aakash Gupta · Substack · @aakashg0
| Metric | As published |
|---|
| Subscribers | 125K+ to 200K+ (the page gives both) (source) |
| Open rate | 40-45% (source) |
| Price per placement | Bespoke, depending on ad type and volume (source) |
| Audience | High income tech workers: PMs, marketers, founders, growth marketers and executives (source) |
| Publishing schedule | Twice a week on most weeks, about 100 issues a year (source) |
What they do well
- The October 5 issue with n8n founder Jan Oberhauser goes past the headline question of n8n versus Claude Code and gives readers a short questionnaire for deciding when a prototyped workflow should move into n8n, plus a ready-to-use prompt for rebuilding it there.
- The October 1 guide to harness engineering breaks an AI agent's surroundings into eight named parts, from instructions and memory to permissions and checks, and then walks through a worked example where connecting product analytics revealed a 6.8% enterprise opt-out rate that a plain chat had missed.
- The June 17 piece on the AI product operating model, written with OpenAI Codex PM Rohan Varma, grounds its argument in team sizes readers can picture, such as Codex starting with two PMs, one designer and about 40 engineers.
- The n8n interview also gives job seekers practical detail, like how n8n staffs its product squads and runs its interviews as live working sessions.
Who should read it: Product managers who want long, practical guides on AI products, product leadership and getting their next PM role.
Read Product Growth →
#product management#ai products#pm careers#interviews
A weekly briefing and deep dives on product news, features and data for product teams, by Rich Holmes · Substack
| Metric | As published |
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| Subscribers | 45,000+ (source) |
| Audience | Product managers, UXers, engineers, VCs and tech leaders (source) |
What they do well
- The September 13 briefing sorts a busy week into clear sections, from key reads and new product features to product data and emerging trends, so a reader can skim to the part they need.
- Its product data section collects numbers product teams can use in their own discussions, such as Intercom's finding that user sentiment rose from 49% to 74% after people watched an agent resolve a query.
- The September 8 deep dive on Uber explains how the company kept total AI spend roughly flat while agentic requests rose almost tenfold, and breaks the approach into six parts.
- Design gets real attention alongside product news, as in the March 9 review of more than 20 company homepages, including how Linear and Notion now present their AI agents.
Who should read it: Product people who want one well-organized weekly read on what shipped, what changed and what the numbers say.
Read Department of Product →
#product news#product data#ai agents#ux
The Underdogs
Smaller newsletters doing great work. Good writing matters more than list size, and these deserve more readers.
A weekly round-up of tech and product news, tools, long reads and podcast summaries, by Alastair Preacher · beehiiv · @producttapas
| Metric | As published |
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| Subscribers | 1,000+ product people (source) |
| Publishing schedule | Every week, with Pod Shots podcast round-ups in between (source) |
What they do well
- The October 9 issue opens with a clear point of view, that this week's model news was about price rather than capability, and then groups the stories under headings like Agentic Payments and Engineering Intelligence.
- Each long read in the Blog Bites section comes with a quote, key takeaways and a short note on why it was picked, such as Tim Herbig on defending AI-assisted product decisions.
- Pod Shots #156 summarizes seven podcast episodes on one question, who pays for AI agents, and adds a note on where the guests disagree before closing with three questions for builders.
- The Productivity Tapas section gives each tool a practical use case instead of just a link.
Who should read it: Busy product people who want the week's news, good reads and podcast highlights in one curated, opinionated issue.
Read Product Tapas →
#product news#podcasts#tools#curation
Practical essays on the everyday craft of product management, by Bartosz Jaworski · beehiiv
| Metric | As published |
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| Publishing schedule | Nine issues between August 7 and October 2, 2026, as listed on the newsletter's homepage (source) |
What they do well
- The September 24 issue on stakeholder requests gives eight concrete habits, such as never estimating on the spot and asking stakeholders to describe the problem, users, evidence and success before a request enters the backlog.
- The October 2 issue on the hard parts of the job is candid and useful, with advice like planning for about 70% of theoretical capacity and keeping a written record of who decided what and why.
- The September 28 issue turns Meta Connect 2026 into a lesson on product patience, asking PMs to tell a flawed vision apart from one that needs better execution.
- The stakeholder and hard-parts issues both close with a reflective question for the reader, which makes them easy to bring into a team discussion or a one-on-one.
Who should read it: Product managers, especially newer ones, who want honest, practical advice on stakeholders, planning and the human side of the role.
Read Dr Bart's Newsletter →
#product management#stakeholders#pm craft#careers
These four newsletters cover product management from different angles: Aakash Gupta's long guides and interviews, Rich Holmes's organized weekly briefing, Alastair Preacher's curated round-ups, and Bartosz Jaworski's honest notes on the craft. Read together, they give a good picture of how product work is changing and what stays the same. Subscribe to all of them, and share the ones you like with a product colleague.
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- About - Product Growth
- n8n CEO: Why we aren't dead, how to build great AI products, and what I look for in an AI PM
- What Is Harness Engineering? The Complete Guide (2026)
- The AI Product Operating Model: How AI-Native Companies Win
- About - Department of Product
- Archive - Department of Product
- Anthropic CEO warns about the dangers of a 'fanatically devoted collective' of AI agents
- How Uber transformed its engineering process to reduce token spend by 52%
- Deep: Homepage UX Explored
- Product Tapas
- Bank AI Jobs Jump 49%, Sonnet 5.5 Cuts Task Costs by Up to 30%, Founders Want Builders, Not Order-Takers
- Pod Shots #156 - Who Pays For The Agent
- Dr Bart's Newsletter
- Why Everyone Thinks Your Team Can Build Anything, Anytime (And How to Make It Stop)
- The Dark Sides of Product Management Nobody Talks About
- Meta Connect 2026: The Product Patience Lesson Every PM Should Study
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