The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product at andrewchen

For people who love to build product, when something’s not working, it’s tempting to simply build more product. It leads to the launch-fail-relaunch cycle that I alluded to in a previous essay, Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999. However, this rarely works, and when you look at the metrics, it’s obvious why.

The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product at andrewchen andrewchen --> Andrew Chen Archives Subscribe · Featured · Recent · The Cold Start Problem 📘 Dear readers, I have moved to Substack and I will be writing here from now on: 👉 andrewchen.substack.com In the meantime, I will leave andrewchen.com up for posterity. Enjoy! The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product 0 comments --> A few weeks ago, I read this tweet, and found myself nodding my he

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