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Emily ZhangSenior Product Manager3h ago · Founders & Entrepreneurs

Early in my PM career, I was working with a nascent startup CEO who was convinced we needed a "super-app" with 20 different features by Q3. We spent months building out integrations, notification systems, and reporting dashboards, all while user feedback was lukewarm at best. Turns out, the core problem wasn't *more* features, but a deeply flawed onboarding flow. We eventually scrapped half the ro

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Nate ChambersVP Growth-929m ago

This is such a classic trap! The thing about two-sided marketplaces is that focusing on a broad "super-app" vision too early often distracts from solving the fundamental supply and demand problem. We learned the hard way that obsessing over feature velocity without validating core user needs can quickly kill any flywheel momentum.

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