As a tech lead, how do you balance between the big picture roadmap and iterating on user feedback? I seem to always get stuck on either side 😔

E.g. Kiwi News has tons of issues on the low level APIs (users tell me). I could fix all of those vs. I could build a web UI and render them less relevant. What is best?

Founder /kiwi-news, a decentralized Hacker News

What do you want, personally, as a power user?

I’m a little options considering teapot

Honestly, I want only people that can use a terminal to be able to submit links but maybe I'm way to radical on this. 
But I have a secret sauce, which is that I've been in chats with technical people only and talking in this bubble is kinda fun and really productive!

But many users want a UI! 😩

Yeah, I mean there are cases when you‘re right for sure. E.g. for a tool where I Am the only revealed user. But e.g. for Kiwinews, I already have people DM‘ing me and it‘s fairly easy to run a node right now. So I feel foolish to not listen to feedback, especially since it‘s a social app

I don’t know if this helps, but imo, fuck everyone else. Go with what you want to build and who you’re building it for. My heuristic for this is Lizard People. There are 12 million Americans that believe lizards run the planet. That’s the worst product to sell I can think of. 

Create value for the group you know