Built a quick app using AI, and everything ran fine when i tested it alone.

The moment another person logged in, their edits started overwriting my work. Turns out the AI saved all user data into a single record because i didn't specify multi-user handling.

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Let's support dev-first products

When was the last time you built a feature because one user expressed a strong frustration?

It happens easily. A detailed complaint feels urgent, the solution seems obvious, and suddenly the feature is on the roadmap.

But a user asking for something does not always mean they would use it, pay for it, or even notice when it ships.

Before adding a feature to the roadmap, I find these five questions useful:

The initial spark of an idea usually starts with a grand purpose and a wave of high motivation. However, over time, this process can turn into a cycle of professional and psychological exhaustion.

As the project progresses, the idea hits walls relative to its purpose and fails to align with the real world. Sometimes, you have to give up right in the middle of building it; other times, as time passes and the idea keeps coming back to you, you begin to think it was just a nonsense idea in your mind all along.

Watching a concept you once cherished slowly disintegrate like this is a process that pushes you to your psychological limits. As a founder or product leader, how do you prevent your mind from manipulating you with these ideas?
When and how do you realize that an idea will actually work and that it isn't just a mental trap?

AI agents are getting better at finding products and comparing options but completing a purchase is a different challenge. Cart updates checkout forms shipping details and payment verification can all create friction along the way. Has anyone tested an agent against a real checkout flow? I'd love to know where it gets stuck and how much human intervention is still needed.

Question for folks documenting APIs, especially with docs in a separate repo from the code: how do you find out about changes before a customer does?

The big features usually reach us. What slips is side effects: a PR about a new filter that also lowers the max page size from 100 to 50, a default that flips, a new error code, a renamed webhook field. One line in a diff that's mostly about something else.

Our Net Promoter Score was consistently sitting at a depressing 12, yet our revenue retention was over 110%. We were completely confused.

When we jumped on 1-on-1 calls with customers, we discovered that users found our product's interface ugly and clunky, but the core data it generated was so indispensable to their daily operations that they couldn't switch to a competitor even if they wanted to. They were paying us every month while actively disliking the daily experience.

If you've ever inherited a product with high utility but terrible UX: do you pause all new feature development to rebuild the interface, or keep shipping value and live with a frustrated user base?