What’s one feature you regret building and why?
In college, I built a clean little notice board for campus events - post, register, stay in the loop. That was the plan.
Then I got carried away. I added anonymous posts, upvotes, a forum - basically rebuilt Reddit for our college
I couldn’t validate the original idea, and it slowly spiraled into a confused mush of features - trying to be too many things at once, and doing none of them well.
Have you ever added “just one more thing” until your product forgot what it was supposed to be?
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We once added dark mode before fixing bugs. Users were like cool, but can I actually use the app first?
@michael_t_brown Haha we are all guilty of this, I had a dark mode as well XD
Purposeful Poop
yeah i have done this for sure. in my free time I work on a personal finance tool. I thought people would be super interested in having a drag and drop page builder with different widgets and pipelines. it was all pretty neat code and fun for me to work on, but I think ~0 people ever used it or cared.
I've since replaced the page entirely with this single chart:
people seem to like it a lot more.
the deleted page took a month, the new page an afternoon...
im slowly learning.
@catt_marroll Haha thanks for sharing, I recently learned about using the ICE score framework to prioritize features and wrote an article about it. Also the tool looks super neat, god knows I need something like this atm.
Purposeful Poop
@theideator would be psyched if you checked it out! No pressure of course, but if you felt uncompelled to onboard I’d also be super curious to hear any feedback about why!
Nice article btw. I think a lot of people do this calculation in their heads but I hadn’t seen it explicit like that before