I struggle with this constantly. I keep wanting to add one more feature, fix one more thing — but then nothing ever ships.
My latest project is a live sentiment analysis dashboard — I've already added NLP, topic modeling, interactive charts, and a review explorer. But I still feel like it needs "more."
How do you personally decide when something is ready to go live? Is there a rule you follow, or does it just feel right at some point?
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Ship when the product delivers on one clear sentence. Everything else is v2.
The trap with data-heavy projects is that the feature list feels infinite — there is always another visualization, another model, another integration. But users rarely care about 80% of what we build pre-launch. They care about the one thing that solves their immediate problem.
I'd say ship when one clear workflow works end-to-end without breaking. Polish is what the first 10 users teach you to prioritize.