Best of the Pod: She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures—As a Side Hustle

Our podcast is on hiatus for the month of August, so we're re-upping some of the best interviews we've done on AI & I. Today we're featuring Dan Shipper's conversation with Claire Vo, the founder of ChatPRD, an AI copilot that helps startups build product better and faster, and the chief product officer at the feature testing and management platform LaunchDarkly. Dan and Claire dive into how she built ChatPRD using AI and her predictions for the future of product management. As always, you can watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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Claire Vo built ChatPRD—an on-demand chief product officer powered by AI. It’s now used by over 10,000 product managers and is pulling in six figures in revenue.

The best part?

Claire has a demanding day job as the chief product officer at LaunchDarkly. So she built all of ChatPRD herself—over the weekend—with AI.

ChatPRD is an AI copilot for all things product. Claire first built ChatPRD as a custom GPT that wrote product requirements documents, or PRDs, which is startup speak for an overview of what a new product should do, how it should look, and what features it needs to have. As her chatbot became more popular, Claire expanded its capabilities to other areas of product work—and she continues to ship a new feature every week. The current version can help you draft PRDs from a simple idea, set realistic goals and brainstorm metrics to track them, and level up as a product manager by providing on-demand feedback