SSFeatures

Hey everyone, I'm excited to finally share SSFeatures, which is my first product after leaving the big tech world (7 years at Google). SSFeatures is a browser extension that improves SmartSheet. I wanted my first product to be something simple but highly useful to an existing audience. The current state: Honestly, I'm really happy with the MVP so far. I was still working at Google ~5 months ago, so to be this far along strongly surpassed my expectations. The browser extension works well and has been approved by Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. The features that I've implemented are all from the SmartSheet forum, and have been requested by users for several years. This was the thread in the SmartSheet forum that convinced me that this extension would be a good idea: https://community.smartsheet.com... As I read through the comments, I saw how much of a gap there was for many of these features. Another good thread is this one: https://community.smartsheet.com... Difficulties: I previously worked in Engineering Productivity in Google, which is a team that builds internal tools and then convinces other engineers in the company to use them. The most difficult aspect was always driving user adoption and trying to convince people to use your product. I'm learning just how vast the space is the free market. There are so many great products constantly being built, and nobody knows who you are. At least within Google, your peers knew you, so you had a entrypoint that you could use to sell your product. Imagined Future: I'm excited to see where this goes. I have so many more ideas now that I'm not locked into big tech. I want to keep building and I want to keep building things that are useful to people. Thank you everyone!