{"id":549,"date":"2010-02-19T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2014-04-07T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:50:56","slug":"product-development-feedback-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/product-development-feedback-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"By listening too much to outside suggestions, I\u2019d destroy the very reason why I\u2019m receiving them."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nPeople like Instapaper because of the features it has now and the way they\u2019re designed into the app. If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase producing a bloated, cluttered product full of features that hardly anyone used at the expense of everyday usability and polish on the features that matter. Like Microsoft Word. Or Firefox.<\/p>\n<p><em>By listening too much to outside suggestions, I\u2019d destroy the very reason why I\u2019m receiving them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/392848093\">Marco Arment<\/a>, creator of Instapaper<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like Instapaper because of the features it has now and the way they\u2019re designed into the app. If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase producing a bloated, cluttered product full of features that hardly anyone used at the expense of everyday usability and polish on the features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quoted","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}