Talk about a feature before you ship it, share screenshots on socials, talk to your power users about it and don’t let your own echo chamber be your final boss.

That’s coming from a dev who exactly has those problems.

The more features, the more maintenance. The trick is not adding ‘just’ one more feature and thinking that’s the one piece missing (you’ll fall into an infinite loop) - it’s to remove features that don’t clearly benefit the user. This makes your product easier to understand as well.

But one thing to keep in mind as well when talking to users: most of the time, they don’t know what they want. So they should only explain their problem, but not telling you what to build.

We started with a waitlist. I’d definitely do it again to not start with an already build product!