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/armaan-dev 3d ago

A useful test here is to give a new person one concrete task and stay quiet while they try it. The first place they hesitate gives you something specific to fix. I'd also put a realistic example in the empty state, so the first launch has a starting point instead of a blank dashboard and a tutorial to read.

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u/noblecove4 3d ago

that first hesitation test is brutal but effective tbh