I keep noticing that the useful version of a tiny SaaS is usually smaller than the version I first imagine. The first plan tends to include dashboards, automations, templates, exports, team roles, integrations, and a pricing page that feels a little too confident. Then real usage trims it down. One workflow matters. One repeated frustration matters. Half the clever features either confuse people or create support work before the product has earned that complexity. The question I am trying to use earlier now is: what would still be valuable if this had only one screen and one job? For people building micro-SaaS products, what did you remove after launch that made the product better?

I've been working on a small SaaS after my 9-5 for about eight months for the first six months I kept adding features because I thought that's what would finally get people to sign up. A few nights ago I was on my laptop going through rollingriches instead of writing more code it hit me that almost nobody was asking for new features the few people who used the product mostly wanted the onboarding to be simpler. So I scrapped my roadmap and spent the weekend removing things instead of adding them the product feels smaller now, but it's easier to understand and the first few people testing it are making it all the way through setup instead of dropping off halfway. It kind of feels like I wasted months but I guess that's part of building something anyone else realize the biggest improvement wasn't adding more it was deleting half of what you already built?