Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Since the launch of the Writestreak I have been looking for the next feature to add to the site. There are a lot already added and many more waiting in the backlog. But should I really try to implement every possible feature (and the alleged kitchen sink)?
What if, instead of keep adding features I take a step back and think of features I could remove? Go back to the simplest possible product. There are other platforms offering more feature rich writing platforms, social circles and such. Writestreak isn't about those. It's about one thing: writing daily. Everything else is just noise. I should follow the UNIX philosophy:
Do one thing, and do it well
So, what are the essential features?
- Possibility to write beautiful posts
- Track individual writers statistics
- Interact with other writers
That's already two more! Is the third one really essential? Should I go as far as remove those as well? Maybe I'll go down to those three first. See how it goes from there. The problem is, I'm already getting new ideas of cool additional features.