How solo SaaS builders should decide on new features
In a , building a feature can be easier than deciding whether it should exist. A added animated text and font effects, but the hard question was whether those effects would improve the experience or only make pages feel busy. After several small changes, the feature made profile pages feel more lively and personal without becoming distracting.
The real decision is how to tell the difference between a feature that is genuinely useful and one that only looks cool. User requests, , and can all point in different directions, so the founder has to balance them instead of following only one signal.
Key points
- The hard part is deciding whether a feature deserves to exist.
- Animated text and font effects can make profile pages feel more personal.
- Visual can help, but they can also create clutter.
- Feature choices should balance user requests, , and .
- Small help separate useful from merely cool ones.