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by petervandijck 5486 days ago
You have WAY too many features for an initial product idea. It's not focused.

Try to describe the value and differentiation of your service in 1 sentence.

Don't add game mechanics, upvoting and the kitchen sink unless it is part of the core value/differentiation.

The competitive advantage matrix you have at the end shows how unfocused you are: your competitor have few features, and you have checkboxes against ALL features.

More features isn't good.

More features is bad. It's less focused. You'll do them worse.

1 comments

Thanks for the feedback Peter! I do understand that these are a lot of features to begin with and a lot of people have mentioned this to me. I am currently working on streamlining the feature list.

Since the product will function on user generated music playlists, keeping the user motivated to come back and use the product is of extreme importance. And I do believe that one of the main motives for users these days (I call them User 2.0) is game mechanics. My objective with using game mechanics is not only to make the user "happy", but to keep them motivated/addicted

If your core product isn't compelling, then game mechanics won't help. Leave them out.