🖇️ Is it worth adding integrations to your product?

Some products connect with dozens of other tools. Others intentionally stay independent.

I’ve been thinking about this trade-off...

Integrations can make workflows smoother and help a product fit into the tools people already use.

But they also mean development time, maintenance, API changes, edge cases, and another thing to support.

Sometimes it feels like adding an integration is almost expected - but does every product actually benefit from it?

How do you decide whether an integration is worth building?

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probably worth it once users are already asking for the same integration repeatedly, not before. Building it speculatively before there's real demand usually just adds maintenance for something nobody ends up using.

 Agreed. Sometimes it feels like we just need to launch with the bare minimum and wait for user feedback =D

You never really know in advance which features people will use the most, what they’ll ask for, and what they’ll never touch.