Prepping for my DevHunt launch: what I fixed, removed, and simplified

I’m launching my design tool on DevHunt this week, and prepping for it forced me to finally change things I’d been avoiding. Not big features, but little UI decisions I was kind of scared to touch.

None of it was broken, but it wasn’t clean.

So here’s what I changed:

1. I reduced explanatory copy.
I kept wanting to explain how the tool works. But every time I watched someone use it, they didn’t read, so I made some micro UI adjustments instead.

2. I accepted that not everything was a need.
I had microcopy I thought was useful when I first built but really was doing nothing for anyone.

3. I removed friction I thought was harmless.
Small delays like a minor download hesitation. Tiny confusion around where favorites lived. Individually small for sure... but together? Friction.

The biggest shift wasn’t adding anything. It was trusting the product enough to get out of its way.

It’s cleaner now. Faster! I'm happy.