Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping

The Graveyard of Perfect Apps We all have a ~/projects folder filled with half-finished dreams. Usually, the code isn't broken. The idea isn't bad. The project died because you ran out of steam. You spent 3 weeks building the scaffolding and 0 days building the actual value. As a One-Person Team , your scarcest resource is momentum. To ship, you need to conduct a "Good Enough" Audit . You need to look at your roadmap and ruthlessly cut everything that doesn't directly solve the user's primary pain point. Here are the 5 biggest time-sinks you need to delete from your MVP right now. 1. Dark Mode (The Procrastination Trap) We developers love Dark Mode. We think it’s a requirement. It is not. The Cost: Building Dark Mode essentially requires you to design your app twice. You have to test every border, every shadow, and every text contrast ratio in two states. It doubles your CSS workload. The Reality: Your first 100 users do not care if their retinas are slightly seared. They care if your