If you can't explain your app in fewer than 5 words, do you think your users will ever bother telling anyone about the app?
Before you have product-market fit, product development is not about "adding features"—but distilling a product to a simple marketable sentence. Adding… Show more
If you can't explain your app in fewer than 5 words, do you think your users will ever bother telling anyone about the app? Before you have product-market fit, product development is not about "adding features"—but distilling a product to a simple marketable sentence. Adding… Show more
We have a core feature offering that is very strong. A small feature idea comes up that serves a subset of the market, but it isn’t too hard to do and it isn’t a bad thing, so we indulge. Repeat that thought process a hundred times and you have a cluttered UI, a large team, a slow product, and no obvious path forward.
Andrew Bosworth • Focus
The most important features for a product are usually the ones that were built first. Once you get past a certain level of functionality, a lot of the new functionality on the roadmap often targets just a subset of users (e.g. power users) or supports use cases that are adjacent to the core use cases. So it’s a safer bet that you’ll drive more busi... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
It’s time to say it out loud: BUILD LESS SOFTWARE
Centering too much on adding new functionality will break your product, your users, and your team. Maybe your business. 1/10
1. Most founders are bad at growth, so if you're amazing at it, the advantage is significant.
Consider: Most startups die not because founders are bad or products suck, but because they couldn't figure out how to get anyone to try them.