Adding multiple features VS serving a single purpose. What should I do?
Hey hackers, advice is needed! 🥺
TL;DR: I've built a tool that reads all the messages from a community and creates an email digest with the most exciting discussions. Should I focus only on email generation so that the tool serves one purpose? Or, since I've got a lot of community-related data - I should build a platform with multiple functions (email generation, transforming discussions into blog posts, etc.)
Longer version with context:
Once a month, I send a newsletter digest to my community members with all the most exciting stuff that happened: TOP 5 most active discussions, interesting links shared, etc.
I've scratched my itch and built a tool to automate it. The tool reads all the messages from the community, summarizes them for me, and creates an email template. It saves a ton of time, plus I'm putting more effort into creative stuff than manually scrolling through Slack channels and searching for messages.
At some point, I decided that since I've got a lot of data -- I can do stuff with it and build a platform for content generation based on community data. Turn discussions into blog posts for SEO boost, make Slack/Discord conversations indexable by search engines, etc. It will take a lot of work to implement, but I'll be able to serve more customers.
What should I do? Focus on a single thing with email generation, or build an all-in-one platform without a single clear use case?
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Thanks! 🙏
This sounds extremely useful! We have a community of around 1500 people and it takes time to catch up with everything that was said.
Re features, I like the idea of having more, and I think you're on the good track, but maybe best to launch as early as possible and start receiving feedback. You can always add more features + you will get ideas from your users!