What's one thing you stopped doing that helped your product grow?
Most growth advice is about adding things: more channels, more posts, more features.
For me, the stuff that helped was usually stopping something. Stopping building features nobody asked for. Stopping checking analytics ten times a day. Stopping launching quietly and hoping.
What did you stop doing that actually made a difference?
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stopped writing "here's my thing, check it out" posts. i'm building grunz (coding agent on open models) and those went nowhere every time. what actually got people talking was writing up something that broke on us, like finding out a lot of hosted model endpoints quietly cap you around 32K of context no matter what the model page says, and then asking a real question at the end. turns out nobody cares about your launch but everybody cares about the bug they also have
Nice, this makes a lot of sense. What's been the most surprising part of it so far?
I stopped opening five competitor tabs every morning.
It felt like research, but it was mostly anxiety. What helped more was one fixed weekly pass: same five URLs, same checklist (pricing, changelog/What’s New, one messaging screenshot), then a 3-bullet note of what changed and whether I’d do anything. Cutting the daily check freed time for customer calls and made the weekly note actually useful.
Curious what others replaced the “constant monitoring” habit with.