OutHives 🐝

✦ Battling Distractions: It was a real battle to stay focused. New ideas and potential features kept popping up, and I often found myself tempted to chase them, even if they weren't core to the initial vision.

✦ Feature Creep: I definitely fell into the 'feature creep' trap. What started as a simple idea of connecting people in need of a service with people who can provide it, began to balloon in my mind – suddenly I was thinking about adding a marketplace, then items, then a whole social platform! It was a classic case of trying to do too much too soon.

✦ Sticking to the Core: Sticking to the main problem I wanted to solve was harder than I thought. I'd sometimes find myself deep in developing a feature that, in hindsight, was pretty far removed from what users actually needed or what I initially set out to build.

✦ Avoiding Reinvention: I also learned the hard way about 'reinventing the wheel.' There were times I spent ages building something that I later realized had a perfectly good existing solution I could have used, saving a ton of time and effort.

✦ Prioritization is Key: Perhaps the biggest takeaway was the critical importance of prioritization. Learning to constantly step back, look at the big picture, and ask 'what's *really* important right now?' became essential to making actual progress and not just spinning my wheels on exciting but non-essential tasks.