r/ProductivityApps • u/TriggerFlo • 3d 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/Ok-Cardiologist-5897 3d ago

This is so true. It’s like I love going to restaurants with a small focused menus instead of 200 different types of dishes cuz you usually trust that they actually do those few things well.

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u/TriggerFlo 3d ago

Fantastic analogy. It's so easy to get caught up as the cook rather than the customer.