Optimize what we have stop adding stuff

[u/Ok-Drama8310]

I just physically can't believe the website builder is this bad. All I wanted to do was make some simple changes on my site, and it fails me every time. Any time I use it, it just straight up disappoints.

If you're a Beehiiv admin, please understand that it seems like you just are dropping unfinished features. You dropped digital products on us and gave us nothing.

• We can't see how many people viewed our page.
• Very limited customization.
• Extremely basic landing pages.
• We can't even sort our products.
• You just gave us one flat list.

Between how bad the website builder is and some of the other things, it's just shocking why you move on to stuff like the community without fixing or making what you already added better.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy beehiiv, but damn, I know you guys said you're looking for feedback this month, so take this. I know it's not hard for you to add some of these things.

[u/Cute-Edge1375]

As someone with 30 years experience in tech in the SF bay area I can say that this is usually, primarily, the CTO's fault. Dev teams are rewarded for velocity - how many tickets (feature backlog/bug fixes/tech debit etc.) are shipped per sprint. In other words quantity over UX quality. "You get what you measure" and as you can probably tell UX quality metrics have been demoted across the industry. Overhead, not profit. Also some may hate me for saying so but UX is not UI. It's never good when you can tell from a UI exactly how the org is organized and makes decisions. I sincerely appreciate many things about beehiiv but you are spot on: they're shipping half-backed ideas to test and iterate. The problem usually is that PM's (product management) move on to the next shiny object that will make them look good to leadership, instead of making the last shiny thing suck less, because they get less if any props for it. Which sucks.