I have the same experience with my product DataGridXL (
https://datagridxl.com).
I spent a lot of time minimizing bugs and I choose deliberately to have less features and focus ond speed aan reliability.
But website visitors only see that a competing product has 2x the features (at great cost).
I have a customer with 10 million end users, in one year they have reported only 2 bugs, both bugs fixed within a day.
It's also hard to sell another 12 months of support this way, as it "just works". Bugs and imperfection can actually be a way for users to "bond" with your product.
Another downside is that the product does not have a weekly update cycle, as there is not much to fix.
People on github might think the project is dead. In reality, i spent a long time working on the product foundation, but that has no face value.
I spent a lot of time minimizing bugs and I choose deliberately to have less features and focus ond speed aan reliability.
But website visitors only see that a competing product has 2x the features (at great cost).
I have a customer with 10 million end users, in one year they have reported only 2 bugs, both bugs fixed within a day.
It's also hard to sell another 12 months of support this way, as it "just works". Bugs and imperfection can actually be a way for users to "bond" with your product.
Another downside is that the product does not have a weekly update cycle, as there is not much to fix.
People on github might think the project is dead. In reality, i spent a long time working on the product foundation, but that has no face value.