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Founders Consistently Prioritize Wrong Features, Wasting Engineering Effort

Founders routinely greenlight high-effort features with low adoption while overlooking simple high-impact functionality, resulting in wasted engineering cycles. Poor product decision frameworks cost more than engineering talent quality. Discussion post with strong engagement revealing demand for founder decision tooling.

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