--- title: Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP... description: Solo developers waste momentum building non-essential features before validating their product. Five common MVP time-sinks to cut immediately: dark mode... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-building-settings-pages-a-guide-to-ruthless-mvp-scoping-o5axqafww twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping | daily.dev og:description: Solo developers waste momentum building non-essential features before validating their product. Five common MVP time-sinks to cut immediately: dark mode... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-building-settings-pages-a-guide-to-ruthless-mvp-scoping-o5axqafww og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O5axQAFww.png og:image:alt: Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 4 min read · 34 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Solo developers waste momentum building non-essential features before validating their product. Five common MVP time-sinks to cut immediately: dark mode (doubles CSS work), edit profile pages (no users yet), complex auth flows (pick one method), custom admin dashboards (use DB console instead), and automated billing upgrade/downgrade logic (handle manually until you have revenue). The core principle is to ship only the feature that directly solves the user's primary pain point — the 'core loop' — and defer everything else. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@srikanth03654** · 0 upvotes > Its Actual fact, Been stuck with this, Kept on working with the Login, Dark theme, etc for more the five days & never started the core feature on most of my Personal projects. **@ryntab** · 0 upvotes > Yeah i agree with this, but at a certain point you'll have so many half finished apps that you also have a decent personal sass template to fork. **@pemachele** · 0 upvotes > I need to share this with my friend and me ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Features to cut in your Startup’s MVP – essential lean product tips](https://daily.dev/posts/features-to-cut-in-your-startup-s-mvp-essential-lean-product-tips-shmugodv7) · Curiosum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#stripe](https://daily.dev/tags/stripe) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-building-settings-pages-a-guide-to-ruthless-mvp-scoping-o5axqafww) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/stop-building-settings-pages-a-guide-to-ruthless-mvp-scoping-o5axqafww","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/stop-building-settings-pages-a-guide-to-ruthless-mvp-scoping-o5axqafww"},"datePublished":"2026-02-27T17:03:31.773Z","dateModified":"2026-02-27T17:03:50.404Z","description":"Solo developers waste momentum building non-essential features before validating their product. 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