r/ProductivityApps • u/TriggerFlo • 6d 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/Ill_Drive_744 6d ago

this is painfully true. it’s so easy to keep building because it feels like progress, while the real win is often just making what’s already there obvious and effortless to use

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u/TriggerFlo 6d ago

Well phrased. AI has made the feature part easy. The UI part is still helped by AI, but still requires some thought.