Analyzed a SaaS with 4 launches in 11 months – Here’s what I learned

Instead of just reading startup advice, I decided to track real products through their entire journey on Product Hunt. Found one dev tool with 4 launches in 11 months. Three founders. Growing user base.

Here's how they evolved:

January: Launch with ONE simple feature. Enter the website, get clean data. That's it.

A few months later: Added agent capabilities – clicking, logging in, following links. Users clearly asked for this.

Next update: New /search endpoint. Honestly couldn't figure out why at first, then realized – users needed to search within the scraped data.

Latest launch: Full browser automation. Can now crawl entire websites. Power users got what they wanted.

They didn't predict the future. They didn't build everything up front.

Launch 1 was simple. But it WORKED. Then they listened. Every update was a direct response to what users actually needed.

The founder's comments showed genuine conversations with users. Not defensive. Not "but we already planned that." Just… listening and building.

My biggest learning:

Stop trying to build the perfect v1 with all the features. Ship something simple that solves ONE problem well. Then let real users tell you what's next.

Evolution isn't about your assumptions. It's about their pain points.

Anyone else analyzing products like this? What patterns are you seeing?