🖇️ Is it worth adding integrations to your product?
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Some products connect with dozens of other tools. Others intentionally stay independent.
I’ve been thinking about this trade-off...
Integrations can make workflows smoother and help a product fit into the tools people already use.
But they also mean development time, maintenance, API changes, edge cases, and another thing to support.
Sometimes it feels like adding an integration is almost expected - but does every product actually benefit from it?
How do you decide whether an integration is worth building?
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"Feels like more teams are trying to reduce app overload lately. keeping the workflow together makes a lot of sense."
@grace_gui02 So, do you think integrations are the better approach, or having one tool replace all the others? =)
@adana I think it really depends on the core workflow. If a product solves one thing really well, integrations can make it fit naturally into people’s existing setup. But if users are constantly switching between tools for the same workflow, bringing more of that into one place can be valuable too.
Probably comes down to what users are actually asking for and where the biggest friction is.
@grace_gui02 I think I’m looking at it more from the maker’s point of view.
When you’re building something that aims to close all the gaps in an existing workflow, and you don’t have integrations yet, it’s especially interesting to hear how other makers come to that decision.
probably worth it once users are already asking for the same integration repeatedly, not before. Building it speculatively before there's real demand usually just adds maintenance for something nobody ends up using.
@samran_elahi Agreed. Sometimes it feels like we just need to launch with the bare minimum and wait for user feedback =D
You never really know in advance which features people will use the most, what they’ll ask for, and what they’ll never touch.