Trends: insights from people who build products

Hyperautomation means automating a whole business process, not one task, by combining workflow tools, integrations, bots, AI and people who approve. How to map the process, which tool fits each step, what the tools cost in 2026, and where to start.

Upskilling, AI personalisation, immersive learning, subscriptions and gamification were the 2022 edtech trends. Here is what each means for a new learning product in 2026, the rules to check first, and what a first version costs.

How to plan a healthy eating app: pick the food decision you make easier, get nutrient data from USDA’s free database, know the FDA and Apple rules on health claims, and split payments between in-app purchase and card.

Which parts of your operations should run on a ready-made ERP and which need your own software. The signs you need one, three routes compared, per-user math with 2026 list prices, SAP’s maintenance dates, and what we learned building around and instead of ERP.

For a retailer with physical stores, the app’s job is to help people buy from you wherever they decide. The features to build first, the loyalty card that needs no app, the data behind it all, and what to leave for later.

Hybrid work settled into a pattern: a third of US workers do some work from home, offices fill on Tuesdays, and software teams rarely sit together. Five trends backed by 2026 data, and the products for hybrid teams worth building, with what one costs.

How to add communication and collaboration features to a product: what to integrate, what to buy as an API and what to build, what B2B buyers expect, the work nobody puts on the wireframe, and the App Store rule for paid calls.

An uptime promise has a price. How much downtime each target allows, the difference between an SLA and an SLO, what your cloud provider does and doesn’t promise, and the parts to build so a SaaS stays up.

What a new company needs to know before it sells online in the EU: how many people already buy online, the six EU rules that become features in a store or marketplace, where each official page is, and the order we would build in.

The SaaS numbers worth tracking in your own product, grouped by who owns them: revenue for the CEO, operations for the COO, product and engineering for the CTO. Definitions, data sources and what to build before launch.

What to settle before you build a travel marketplace: where the first hosts come from, what happens to the money at every booking state, how hosts get paid in many countries, and the price and package rules in the US and EU.

The 2022 list named PHP, Python, Java, Node.js and NestJS. All five are still used. This 2026 guide shows how to pick between them, which versions still get security fixes, and the stack we would start a new product on.