Jon Udell: Good enough for government work
Jon Udell: Good enough for government work: "Here's the proof that tail doesn't matter much. If it did, we would not be successfully pouring the majority of our web writing through TEXTAREA widgets in blog and webmail composers."
What features matter and which ones don't? The question is driving me crazy, now that I'm developing my own software. What are the killer features? There really isn't a way to know without having users have a go at them. And then what - do you remove the not so popular features? A kind of featuritis darwinism? That's what I'm doing with Mefeedia for now, forced by limited resources. It might well be the best approach. Less features is less stuff to focus on, less testing, and faster improvement cycles.
Perhaps the answer is: throw out features you think will work, then get rid of the ones that didn't, then refine the ones that did until they *shine*.
But I may well be totally wrong here.