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My greatest idea sucked

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🚀 Road to 1,000,000 Votap users — Day 75 | Current: 1358

My greatest idea sucked 😭

One of the features I was most excited about in Votap was timed votes. The idea sounded great: keep opinions fresh, encourage engagement, stop old votes from becoming stale.

The reality? People didn't want it.

Instead of feeling dynamic, votes started feeling like a chore. Users had to come back and renew them, and over time we lost nearly 80% of all votes because they simply expired.

So we did something every founder eventually has to do: We admitted we were wrong.

Instead of defending the feature, we listened to what users were actually telling us. Over the last few days I removed vote expirations entirely and backfilled roughly 8,000 expired votes back into the system.

We’re back to something much simpler:

→ Vote once

→ Your vote stays forever

→ Change it anytime you want

Sometimes the best solution is the original one.

On another note, Votap Premium is now live! Use code FOUNDING50 for 50% off the Founding Member tier while it’s available.

Download Votap from the App Store to try it out!

More tomorrow.

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How do you rate it as the greatest. For me, I spent so much time brain storming about ideas, even much before vibe coding as well. But many times an idea once feeling great felt unworthy after a few months.

  1. Don't overcomplicate

  2. Ask users (or people around you) would you use this - why/why not

  3. Move fast

  4. If it turns out to be terrible, iterate or remove it.

. Thanks... Have you followed the same steps and still got your app sucked ? In my case when you are trying to create a new user in an already verified problem it is hard to see the buying intention. If there is a problem and noone is solving it, most probably you can sell it however it is hard to discover if it is still sellable or not. How would you validate in that case ?