[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":69},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-/blog/more-features-not-more-users":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":59,"description":60,"draft":61,"extension":62,"meta":63,"navigation":64,"path":65,"seo":66,"stem":67,"__hash__":68},"blog/blog/more-features-not-more-users.md","More features ≠ more users",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":54},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,27,34,40,43,51],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Early on, I thought growth was simple: ship more features. Every new thing felt\nlike a new reason for someone to sign up.",[10,14,15],{},"I was wrong.",[10,17,18],{},"More features didn't bring more users. If anything, they did the opposite - they\nconfused the users I already had. Every new button, setting, and screen made the\nproduct harder to understand, and easier to quit.",[10,20,21],{},"More features don't grow your SaaS. Focus does.",[23,24,26],"h2",{"id":25},"my-philosophy-got-simpler","My philosophy got simpler",[10,28,29,33],{},[30,31,32],"strong",{},"1. Find the one thing your product does best.","\nIt's usually the feature that fixes a real, painful problem - the reason people\ncame to you in the first place. The rest is noise.",[10,35,36,39],{},[30,37,38],{},"2. Improve it. Improve it. Improve it.","\nMake that one thing faster, clearer, and better than anyone else's. Deep beats\nwide.",[10,41,42],{},"That's it.",[10,44,45,46,50],{},"The hard part isn't building. It's having the discipline to ",[47,48,49],"em",{},"not"," build - to say\nno to the roadmap and keep making the thing that already works even better.",[10,52,53],{},"Your users don't want more. They want the thing they came for, done really well.",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":57},"",2,[58],{"id":25,"depth":56,"text":26},"2026-08-18","A lesson I learned the hard way as a CTO - why shipping more rarely grows your SaaS, and what to do instead.",false,"md",{},true,"/blog/more-features-not-more-users",{"title":5,"description":60},"blog/more-features-not-more-users","LUBuVfMqyGfH8I4KlLDKdDiBoeikh5BYPyx-KB3zbk8",1787055760891]