I spent three weeks building a dashboard that, to my surprise, no one uses. It had every metric imaginable, beautiful visualizations, the works. It turned out that people just wanted a weekly email with three numbers. Has anyone else ever overengineered something just because it was fun to build, rather than because someone asked for it?

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It’s better to overengineer than to underengineer 😎

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Agree, till they figure that it is overengineered

I know that feeling well

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Worst feeling when you realize your work is underutilized

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Yep! Definitely been there before hahaha.

The jobs should be fun to do, right?

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