Recently, spurred by some internal validation, I decided to take another hard look at what I was building with
@Maelishq
One thing I kept coming back to was how features can sometimes take away from the viability and usability of a product.
Most times, when you keep adding features to a product, confusion grows with it. Users start spending more time figuring out what they should use than actually using the product. You end up giving them more choices, but not necessarily making their work easier.
So I decided to streamline Maelis.
By streamlining, I mean deliberately eliminating some things, reshuffling where certain features live, changing how they are used, and in some cases replacing them with simpler alternatives.
That meant destroying some of the things I had already built.
And honestly, that is one of the harder parts of building a product. You can spend days or weeks building something, get attached to it, and then realize that keeping it simply because you built it is actually hurting the product.
Some features had to go. Others had to be simplified. Some had to move completely.
The goal wasn't to have fewer features just for the sake of having fewer features. The goal was to make the things that matter most obvious, accessible, and useful.
Sometimes building better means adding.
Sometimes it means rearranging.
And sometimes, it means having the discipline to delete something you worked very hard to build.