i spent 3 weeks building features nobody asked for and one user call changed everything!!!

i had a bit of a reality check this week ,for the last couple weeks i was fully locked in, building what i thought were useful improvements. new dashboard and cleaner onboarding and more settings and little UX tweaks ,i built most of it pretty quickly using runable, which honestly made shipping stuff way easier than i expected, so just kept adding things, kept telling myself, nice, this is real progress. then i finally showed it to someone who’d actually use it. he clicked around for a minute and basically said this is cool, but honestly i’d only use it for this one thing and of course that one thing was the most basic part of the product. the thing i built first. not the extra stuff i added after , that was kind of painful to hear, but fair and made me realize i was building things that made me feel productive, not things that made the product better , damnnn i think sometimes adding features is just easier than hearing honest feedback.

anyway , Bit humbled this week and probably this was really useful lesson for me !!!