Great question! Initially, yes, developers weren’t our target market but they made up a disproportionate number of our users - so this was tough to kind of take their requests with a grain of salt. But I think two things are more relevant to any product creator:
- over time, your feature requests will just be things other products have. You might need these features, but be careful - if you just spend all your time copying other tool’s features, you will have no time left to innovate. Your product will just be a bad clone of those tools
- and more to the point, ask your users WHY they are asking for these features? “What are you trying to solve? Tell me about your workflow”. If you are building a more horizontal tool that might be used by lots of different types of people, you have to synthesize a lot of feedback that is specific to a particular person’s workflow and create features that work for people across the board