Martin Bennett

We've launched officially week ago, and so far Highlight Studio has been trough 100s of beta tester hands.
In this past week Highlight Studio has grown with bunch of new features that were built by getting feature requests directly from beta testing community.
List of things that were added:
Overall:
Layout regions

Zoom adjustments with canvas zooming

Title cards

We're getting ready to ship Still 1.1.6, and this update makes the app feel much more private, calm, and complete.

What's new in this version:

• A new privacy toggle in History to hide messages and blur images, so past entries are not visible at a glance

• Google Drive backup and restore, so Pro users can keep a safe copy of their journal

• Gentle starter prompts to make it easier to begin writing when you don't know where to start

• New empty states across the app to make the experience feel clearer and more thoughtful

• More polish in Light Mode and premium flows

Still is a private space to write what you can't always say out loud, and this update pushes that idea further.

I feel like a lot of product bloat starts with a request that seems totally reasonable in the moment.

Then it ships, and months later you realize it added more complexity than value more support, more exceptions, more maintenance, and one more thing the product has to carry forever.

Would love to hear examples from other builders. What s one request you wish you had handled differently?