One thing I underestimated before shipping my first product

When I started building my first product, I thought the hard part would be writing the code.

It turned out the bigger challenge was something else: making hundreds of small product decisions.

Questions like:

• Which feature should come first?

• What should be removed to keep the product simple?

• Which user feedback should be acted on immediately?

• When is a product “good enough” to launch instead of continuing to polish it?

Looking back, those decisions had a much bigger impact than the technical implementation itself.

I’m interested to hear from other makers:

What was one lesson you only learned after shipping your first product that you wish someone had told you earlier?