I’m building a SAAS app. CEO will literally say yes to any client request to get sales (we need them!) which means we tend to build things just to close deals. Should I expect this in a small startup?

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Former dev/product manager here... yes pretty normal, but maybe sit down and establish a vision to decide what’s within scope to avoid over promising and under delivering

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Yes. But make sure effectively manage the product life cycle. In this environment products have tendency to be launched for sale but are not scaleable.

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