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A Timeline. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Actually Happens When a SaaS Product Has No PM. A Timeline. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 11 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A narrative timeline exploring what happens to a SaaS product when no dedicated product manager exists. Starting from the deceptively smooth early months, it traces how prioritization chaos, ad-hoc user research, engineer-driven product decisions, and ignored metrics compound over 18 months into a costly mess. The core argument: PM work always gets done by someone, but doing it part-time without continuity is far less effective than a dedicated role — and the accumulated cost of small misalignments eventually creates a ceiling that's expensive to fix. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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