What’s a product detail you obsessed over… that nobody noticed?
As a founder building a hardware + app product (InvisOutlet Pro — launching soon 👀), I’ve found myself going way too deep on tiny details most people will never think about: icons used in our app, length of screws, even how the packaging folds.
Some of these details make a huge impact… others? Maybe just to me 😅
So I’m curious:
What’s a product detail you or your team obsessed over, that most users didn’t even see?
It could be a button animation. A haptic buzz. A typo you couldn’t let slide.
Would love to hear what you’ve built — or noticed — that makes you smile, even if no one else ever mentions it.
– Leon
Co-founder @ Intecular
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@howell4change
Thank you for sharing! Honestly, it's been difficult to balance constant attention to detail (Which I think is an undeniably good trait) with the ability to evolve quickly. Over time, my team has gotten better at getting ourselves out of "analysis paralysis."
@leonxue1 really need to scrutinize the impact score and then time box it. this still can leave opportunities squandered and moving on, but it helps from being obsessed and stuck. with that said, being tenacious not just at say design excellence but getting to the bottom of what's causing a drop off in signup flow and the more elusive user delight balance is the actual work once a product hits maturity.
Migma AI
Good question, I'm the founder of Migma.ai, we built an ai powered email designer. one unique feature at least for me is the possibility to have icons in the generated email.
many users think it's a simple feature but we actually had to build our own compiler as most icons are in svg and emails engines don't support that.
another feature would be the compatibility check, where we have to check generated emails across many engines to make sure it renders well everywhere.
@adam_lab Thanks for sharing! It sounds like, given your product, those small changes make a big difference in email design.
You're not alone @leonxue1 – I obsess over lots of tiny details in my product too, as I still believe in Good Software :)
Similar to @howell4change I have tons of examples. I think a great product comes from an obsession about all of those details, but finding the perfect balance between which matter and which don't.
And sometimes it matters to me (as a user of my own app), so I always make those details as pleasing as possible... e.g. cubic-bezier animations that feel "just right" to making sure that loading states and error handling product nice experiences.
I pay attention to as much as I can as a solo founder.
@howell4change @martin_rue That makes total sense, especially as a solo founder with no one to check behind your shoulder :)
As a visual person, I always geek out over the tiny design choices most people scroll past!
That perfect app icon balancing cuteness and sleekness? Chef's kiss
The way a button bounces with just the right animation? Obsessed.
Even loading animations that perfectly match the brand's vibe? Yes please.
It’s like visual Easter eggs — 90% of users might miss them, but when someone notices? Instant connection. ✨
@rani_zagita This is awesome to hear! I'm always contemplating what percent of the people who view my next email newsletter, landing page, etc., actually notice those details. I'm glad to hear that visual audiences like you exist and appreciate my efforts.
The Hidden Potential of the Share Button
Many people intuitively use the share button to save content to Slack and other platforms - it's become second nature. But compared to other buttons, sharing might actually be the most extensible action we perform daily.
The problem? This incredibly versatile function often ends in a dead end. We share, we save, but then... nothing. The content sits there, unread, unprocessed, forgotten.
What if we could transform this intuitive behavior into something more meaningful?
Instead of just dumping links and content into digital folders, what if the share action could:
Automatically summarize and contextualize what you're sharing
Trigger relevant workflows based on the content type
Connect information across platforms intelligently
Turn passive saving into active processing
The share button isn't just about moving content - it's about intent. When someone shares something, they're signaling that this information matters to them in some way.
I’m tackling that with LLMonster: a mobile share-sheet that triggers generative-AI workflows.
@ekusiadadus I hadn't thought about it this way, but it is certainly a powerful indicator. Thank you for sharing!
@ekusiadadus ok. this is the a brilliant idea and excellent trolling! i am totally in. just followed your launching soon.
Rate limiter, especially when making AI applications
Thanks for sharing @leonxue1
For me, building Garnet AI (our AI-powered vendor onboarding platform which will be launched on PH soon ), I spent hours refining how we format compliance answers.
The nuance: Every regulatory framework (GDPR, SOC 2, AML, OFAC, etc.) has its own language and structure. I agonised over whether our AI should answer in full sentences, bullet-lists, or legal-style clauses—so that a compliance officer could read it at a glance and trust it.
The result: We settled on a hybrid: a 1-sentence summary, followed by a bulleted checklist of requirements, then a “Why it matters” note. It feels seamless in our UI, but you would never guess how much back-and-forth went into that micro-copy—until someone pointed it out in a beta test!
- Rusha
Founder and CEO, Garnet AI
Loved this, Leon!
One detail I got irrationally fixated on was crafting button hover states with just the right shadow offset for a client's dashboard app. Nobody mentioned it but it made the whole interface feel subtly 'alive.' I also spent way too long refining icon alignment in a Laravel integration so it looked pixel-perfect on mobile. Feels good knowing it's there—even if it's invisible to most.
@vivek_sharma_25 I think you shouted out an important element to the discussion...sometimes it truly just feels good to know that things were done "right" despite a minimal impact on your client.
I spend way more time than I should on code organization that users never see.
Working solo on Interactive CV, I've become obsessed with naming things properly. I'll refactor variable names from aiResponse to personalizedResumeContent just so future-me (or hopefully a teammate) can understand what's happening without digging through context.
I actually rebuilt my AI integration architecture twice because I wanted adding new providers to be straightforward. Users just see "generate personalized resume" but behind that button are carefully structured classes.
The goal is that any developer could jump in and understand the flow quickly. It's invisible work that slows me down now but hopefully saves tons of time later.
Fun question. One item of hot debate where I work is about UI content in videos, etc. There is a camp of 'no one reads anything in an app' and another that is 'every detail is crucial.' Who's right? Who's to say? The right path is probably somewhere in the middle, but it doesn't stop us from agonizing over it.
@cholden_lewis I couldn't agree more. I'm definitely in the latter camp, though I think a middle ground is my end goal.
Love the question. I’m the founder of MoMoney, and we’re building our prototype of a Market Sandbox to make learning investing and trading frictionless for anybody. Funny story: in our initial build, we went all-in on gamification: XP, badges, you name it, unequivocally convinced it would be our silver bullet.
Turns out retention was never our problem, and when user feedback rolled in, not one feedback mentioned the gamified elements as their favorite feature, or even a feature that caught their eye. It still cracks me up, and while it looks great and might be cut out in future updates, for now it’s our best-kept inside joke.