My greatest idea sucked

🚀 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.