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Stop Adding Features to Your Projects. Fix These Problems First.

A project with ten features isn’t automatically better than one with three.

Saad Ahmed

5 min read11 hours ago

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Open a beginner developer’s portfolio and you’ll often see a familiar pattern.

A to-do app. A weather application. A shopping website. Maybe a chatbot.

The projects look different, but many share the same weakness: the main feature works in a demonstration, and almost everything around it is unfinished.

The application accepts the expected input. The happy path works. The screenshots look good.

Then someone enters an unexpected value, refreshes the page at the wrong moment, or tries to run the project on another computer.

Things start breaking.

This is why adding another feature isn’t always the best way to improve a project.…