Managing a product is hard. Ideas come from all angles, many of them have merit and worst of all you don’t generally have enough direct feedback to make an informed decision about which ideas carry the most value.
There is an inherit danger in committing resources toward too many features. Time is finite and the team is small. Picking the wrong features means potentially confusing users or failing to attract users in the first place.
The worst part is that picking the wrong features means that you are also not working on the features that users need, compounding the problem by way of temporarily hijacking development time and diluting the product like a bad domestic beer. Not to mention, the more you build, the more things will break forcing you into a perpetual spiral of pain.
Instead, I strive to keep the product simple at all costs, launch only what is necessary and evolve to complexity over time. As the saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day and they didn’t have to hundreds of users to deal with in real time.
Remember, deciding to add the wrong feature is the gift that keeps on give giving.