Notes ยท Munna Suprathik
Cutting a Feature From Tend
By Munna Suprathik, Generative AI Engineer.
This one is not about a bug. It is about deleting something I was proud of, which turned out to be harder.
I built a feature for Tend that did more, showed more, and handed the user more control. On paper it was the good kind of powerful. Then I watched real people use it, and every single one of them paused when they hit it. More options meant more deciding, more deciding meant less doing, and the whole point of Tend is to turn a messy brain-dump into scheduled tasks without making you think about the tool.
Less in the hand, more gets done.
So I removed it. Deleting your own work feels like admitting the time was wasted, and it takes a second to get past that. But a product that quietly works beats a clever one that makes someone stop and figure it out, and I would rather ship less and have it feel obvious.
Cutting it made Tend better. My ego recovered by the next commit.
The feature made the app more impressive in a screenshot and worse in a hand.