I spent 14 months building a product nobody wanted because I ignored one thing [i will not promote]

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About 3 years ago, I was building a B2B workflow automation product. For 14 months, my entire focus was on building Every week we shipped new features. Every month we added something else. I was convinced that if we just kept improving the product, growth would eventually come It didn't We got some users, a few demos, some trial signups. But nobody was excited The painful realization came when I finally started looking closely at competitors. What shocked me wasn't that they had better products. It was that they understood customer problems better Their messaging was clearer. Their onboarding was simpler. Their positioning made more sense. They were solving the same problem we were trying to solve, but in a way customers could actually understand Meanwhile I was sitting in my own bubble building features nobody had asked for I genuinely think I spent over a year optimizing the wrong things simply because I never spent enough time understanding what was happening around me. Looking back, competitor analysis would've saved me months of wasted effort Curious if anyone else has had a similar realization after building for too long without looking outside   submitted by   /u/DivyahahaH [link]   [comments]