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by revorad 5274 days ago
Heh, I know that's the standard mantra, but no I didn't mean it that way.

Even if you do decide to concentrate on a feature, that's ok. But then, you must concentrate.

The bird's eye view feature doesn't sound to me like one on the basis of which you can get people's attention. Getting an overview of things is not where most people spend their time. Most of the time is spent in the little things. I think that's why Basecamp has been so successful. They just nailed the basic stuff. Even if their bird's eye view is not that good, it doesn't matter so much because people don't use it much, so they can learn to live with it.

If you do decide to concentrate on that, then maybe you should target your product to the kind of people who do only look at the bird's eye view. That's probably senior level project managers or executives, to whom you could sell it as a project health dashboard.