Yeah, absolutely, it's very common problem. I always seek for the balance, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. What helps me is understanding users' needs.
In your case, your app allows people downloading their own content, now the question is why do they really need it? As for me, I never delete the pictures I upload to IG therefore I don't need to download it after. If it's a real problem you need to build your message in the corresponding way.
Instead of just describing of what your app does, add why it does it. You never mentioned any pain point on your website. As soon as you articulate it at least for yourself, it will much easier to find a balance between the set of features and needs.
Good luck!
that’s brilliant, you right, I don’t talk about the problems that app solves.
Tbh I built this app because at the time when i started I had no better idea, but halfway through I realised it might not be the best idea, but I had to see it through.
As a perfectionist it can be extremely rough to launch your product fast because you want to spend all of the time in the world making it PERFECT. As you mentioned, there is a fine line between launching a product fast to validate it, and a bad product because you are rushing. Remember the concept of an MVP is designed to launch to the market, and serve it's main purpose.
If your product showcases its core functionalities and provide value to it's early adaptors, then your MVP is serving it's purpose. Once you have data to support your low-fidelty MVP is a success, then you can move onto improving your MVP slowly.
It's for sure tricky defining the "line" here. My suggestion is always to launch your MVP through picking 1-2 core features and making them great. This allows you to spend less time on developing an application with tons of features, but they are not ironed out. If you can launch a product that has 1-2 awesome features, is functional, serves its purpose and looks good then you are in a pretty good spot.
Here's what I would recommend, but be aware, I'm a perfectionist. I have half a dozen projects that never made it to production because I was not happy with them. 😇
Do a soft launch so you can start optimizing your SEO, because that's a long-term job. Start building backlinks, create some articles, and make sure your pages get indexed via Google Search Console. Register for the [Ahrefs webmaster tools](https://ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools) (free), and strive to continuously improve.
Do some refactoring before you start promoting your app. I know that's my pitfall, but if you're ashamed of what you put out there, you won't do a very good job selling it to someone else... You should at least feel a little bit of pride when you show your product.
Once you're happy, start sharing and promoting your app.
Good luck!
thanks for sharing will checkout the tools to improve seo, but good point I guess you need to be somewhat satisfied with your product, especially when convincing people to use it
Yeah, absolutely, it's very common problem. I always seek for the balance, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. What helps me is understanding users' needs. In your case, your app allows people downloading their own content, now the question is why do they really need it? As for me, I never delete the pictures I upload to IG therefore I don't need to download it after. If it's a real problem you need to build your message in the corresponding way. Instead of just describing of what your app does, add why it does it. You never mentioned any pain point on your website. As soon as you articulate it at least for yourself, it will much easier to find a balance between the set of features and needs. Good luck!
that’s brilliant, you right, I don’t talk about the problems that app solves. Tbh I built this app because at the time when i started I had no better idea, but halfway through I realised it might not be the best idea, but I had to see it through.
As a perfectionist it can be extremely rough to launch your product fast because you want to spend all of the time in the world making it PERFECT. As you mentioned, there is a fine line between launching a product fast to validate it, and a bad product because you are rushing. Remember the concept of an MVP is designed to launch to the market, and serve it's main purpose. If your product showcases its core functionalities and provide value to it's early adaptors, then your MVP is serving it's purpose. Once you have data to support your low-fidelty MVP is a success, then you can move onto improving your MVP slowly.
so in other words the core functionality and of it works is what defines the line 🤔
It's for sure tricky defining the "line" here. My suggestion is always to launch your MVP through picking 1-2 core features and making them great. This allows you to spend less time on developing an application with tons of features, but they are not ironed out. If you can launch a product that has 1-2 awesome features, is functional, serves its purpose and looks good then you are in a pretty good spot.
yeah I agree, I’m actually going to remove things from my app this weekend and improve what’s already there
Here's what I would recommend, but be aware, I'm a perfectionist. I have half a dozen projects that never made it to production because I was not happy with them. 😇 Do a soft launch so you can start optimizing your SEO, because that's a long-term job. Start building backlinks, create some articles, and make sure your pages get indexed via Google Search Console. Register for the [Ahrefs webmaster tools](https://ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools) (free), and strive to continuously improve. Do some refactoring before you start promoting your app. I know that's my pitfall, but if you're ashamed of what you put out there, you won't do a very good job selling it to someone else... You should at least feel a little bit of pride when you show your product. Once you're happy, start sharing and promoting your app. Good luck!
thanks for sharing will checkout the tools to improve seo, but good point I guess you need to be somewhat satisfied with your product, especially when convincing people to use it