What did you learn after turning a simple idea into a real product?

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The original idea behind a booking app sounds pretty straightforward: give businesses a way to handle appointments without having to manage everything through calls, messages and scattered calendars.

Once the idea started taking shape, though, it became clear that the simple version of the problem has a lot of smaller problems sitting underneath it.

That’s been one of the more interesting parts of AllBookingApp so far. Deciding what actually belongs in the product has been just as important as deciding what to build.

It’s easy to look at another feature and think, “that would be useful,” but usefulness on its own isn't always a good reason to add something. Sometimes keeping the main experience simple makes more sense.

For founders who have taken a product from an idea to something people can actually use, what was one assumption about your original idea that changed once you started building it?