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Investor told me to kill my favorite feature. I fought it for 2 months.
I was building a Toronto based SaaS for construction project tracking. Had this one feature where subs could upload site photos with GPS timestamps. I was obsessed with it. Took me 3 months to build. Then an angel investor looked at my demo and said "that's a distraction, your problem is payment tracking not photo storage". I argued. I was sure photos were the hook. But after watching 3 beta users ignore the feature completely, I finally caved. Killed it last week. Put all that code into a payment approval workflow instead. Early numbers show 40% faster invoice processing now. Hard to admit he was right. Anyone else had to kill a pet feature to make the actual product work?
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andrew72d ago
Used to think "pet features" were always worth fighting for, but your story changed my mind completely. Seeing hard numbers like 40% faster invoice processing is a lot more convincing than just hoping people would use the photo uploads. It's tough when you spend months on something and have to scrap it, especially when an investor called it early. But real user data doesn't lie, and that payment tracking shift clearly solved the actual pain point.
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