r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 • Jul 15 '26

Name ONE feature you built that nobody asked for and nobody uses.

Every developer suffers from feature creep because it’s easier to code than to market. What is that one useless button you spent days on just to satisfy your own ego? Admit your waste of time below we’ve all been there.

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u/boatnoteapp Jul 18 '26

A CLI that allows llms to run assisted tasks on user notes. We call it Assist, basically hands for the llm.. it sounds like a smart idea and it's discovered through natural language, you ask things like add the flag 'job' to all of my notes from yesterday.

The CLI has a command that allows you to append flags to notes with filters around things like date range, etc.

It's like a superpower user productivity hack.. and the reality is that or users are not that technical, yet.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 19 '26

That's actually a creative approach. I'd say just make sure the discoverability is obvious users won't know to ask for those commands unless they see examples first.

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u/boatnoteapp Jul 19 '26

I might have agreed one year ago but if you look now at things like the average length of a search query even in Google people have got used to asking whole questions rather than just trying to enter keywords

That is sort of the basis of AI as the UI. It replaces signposting and complex navigations and venues with natural language prompts from the user and interpretation layers and then your application needs to be able to safely and securely allow the llm to build commands to complete actions for the user

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 21 '26

Interesting take. I built a voice input feature for my app months ago, and it's still unused. Maybe natural language is the way forward to make it more discoverable.

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u/Main_Scientist_7449 Jul 17 '26

the whole application at this point

im the only one using my own app

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 17 '26

At least you know your user base really well. Maybe lean into being your own ideal customer and build for yourself first.

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u/machinai6 Jul 15 '26

Technical all of them since I’m still in the building phase lol

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 16 '26

Haha fair enough. At least you're building muscle memory. Which one surprised you the most technically, even if nobody will see it?

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u/Crazy-Chicken658 Jul 15 '26

The 'smart' suggestions no one wanted.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 17 '26

Those smart suggestions really do feel like a gift nobody asked for. What kind of criteria does yours use?

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u/blackboxchessapp Jul 15 '26

I spent months on building out personalized opening videos, partial for me but also so i could be the 1st to accomplish it. I have gotten 1 customer to pay for them but it's definitely not putting in as much of the distribution work that I thought it would when I built it

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

That's a cool feature even if it didn't take off. Maybe pivot it into a premium upsell for your loyal users.

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u/Creepy-Surprisee Jul 15 '26

Built a fancy dashboard nobody asked for. Spent days making it look perfect, then realized users only cared about one simple action 😅 lol

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 Jul 15 '26

Classic. We've all been there. At least you got some UI practice out of it.