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Nadia Odunayo - Don't Try to Solve a Pain Point For a Problem You Aren't Experiencing

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How to Avoid Premature Optimization

In general, if the app is working fine for the people who are using it, then we don't need to optimize anything in general. Don't try and solve for a pain point unless you have it unless you're experiencing it. I really try to avoid premature optimization because mainly because you might end up optimizing for the wrong thing. We've had cases in our products history where things have been rubbish for a couple of weeks. And we've always survived it because ultimately, if you're building a product that people want to use and you're quite transparent,. That's another thing, we're very transparent. This is what it looks like, we're trying to get them to you as quickly

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