How do you handle pushback when sunsetting an old feature?

Feature creep happens so fast when you're trying to make every early customer happy. We made the exact same mistake and ended up with a cluttered product that confused new signups during onboarding.

When we finally decided to remove two unused features, a tiny group of vocal users complained, but our main activation rate shot up right after.

Sending a polite heads-up email with a simple alternative helped soften the blow.

Did you face any backlash when you started cleaning up your dashboard?