alt Hacker NewsIsn’t this exactly the problem that Joel Spolsky wrote about a quarter of a century ago?
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...
A lot of software developers are seduced by the old “80/20” rule. It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features. So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies.
Unfortunately, it’s never the same 20%. Everybody uses a different set of features.
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shawabawa3 • yesterday at 9:55 PM
Trello was a successful product despite having way less than 20% of jira's features
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> and you can still sell 80% as many copies.
This is the key to that quote. If you resolve to selling less, you can still have a multimillion dollar product. If you resolve to it being a billion dollar product, then yeah you need every thing for everyone.