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2025

November

Don't build random features.

Features should only be built when users ask for it. Why? Because if users ask for it, it means it’s important for them and other users too. If you build just because, you might not be addressing a real issue/ pain. I can give you my example with cozy watch. My initial approach with the menu bar was very very light, you would just see text and some green, red and yellow icons, meaning it was approved, rejected or commented on. For me, it was enough, after my initial 5 users, one suggested that the menu bar could be enhanced to more details, and game me an example of an existing app. I was blown away. First, because I didn’t know there were other apps there. I was new to this indie dev thing, I didn’t do any research, I just built it. So, after checking that other product I then started to check more competition and even found out that Linear had something embeded in their product.