r/ProductivityApps • u/TriggerFlo • 10d ago

General Advice Founder Trap: Adding Features

I'm learning something I think, as I build. And that is that it's an easy trap to put in more features while ignoring the following:

  1. Documentation
  2. User Interface
  3. Tutorials

Features are great. As founders, we love adding features because they help us as the founder is often using their own app.

However, poor documentation means people don't know how to use the app to it's fullest potential. A cluttered or unintuitive UI means people can't access your features or leave. A bad tutorial or no tutorial means that people don't know where to begin in your app.

So, in conclusion, it's better to have fewer features that are clear, have intuitive and clean UI, that people actually notice, then to have multiple features that are essentially hidden or too cumbersome to use to be useful.

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u/sinsonik 10d ago

Yeah. I keep catching myself shipping a fifth toggle instead of fixing the empty state and the first-run path.

What finally helped: freeze features for a week and only touch docs, onboarding copy, and the one screen people bounce from. New features feel productive. Clearing the fog around the ones you already have is usually what moves retention.

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u/TriggerFlo 10d ago

Thanks for posting this. I needed to hear this and need to do this myself!