Ethan Young's profile on Product Hunt

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Passionate about building clean, efficient, and maintainable software that is reliable, scalable, and easy to work with. Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to turn ideas into high-quality solutions while keeping projects on track. Focused on debugging, testing, and optimizing applications to ensure performance, stability, and a seamless user experience, with a continuous drive to learn and improve with every project.

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1d ago

Has a heavily requested feature ever completely flopped after you built it?

Spent a whole month building a custom export tool because it was the #1 request on our feedback board.

Once it launched, barely 4% of the people who voted for it actually used it more than once. turns out they didn't really need the feature they just wanted to know the app had the option.

How do you test if users actually need a feature before wasting weeks building it?

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4d ago

How do you divide your time between coding new features and talking to users?

There's always a endless list of bugs to fix and updates to ship every single week.

But every time i actually get on a quick call with a user i realize half the stuff i just built wasn't even that important to them. It's hard to know when to put down the code and just listen.

How many hours a week do you actually block out just to chat with your customers?

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8d ago

Are AI dev tools creating a generation of coders who struggle with high-level architecture?

I love how fast AI helps us ship features but I ve noticed a risky habit creeping into daily workflows. Because it takes two seconds to generate a fix for any error there s almost zero reason to step back and analyze structural design choices.

It feels like we're spending all our energy making code work in the short term, rather than learning how to architect scalable long-term software.