o the US govt will have a laundry list of features so
specialized that you really end up working just for them
o companies that are big enough they want everything
running on their internal infrastructure
o health care providers with hippa requirements
o nation states (including the US) that want to impose
monitoring or censorship requirements for you to serve
their populations
o customers who want their children to use your service
or software and have you be responsible for censorship,
controlling harassers, etc
o any minority community, say classic music lovers want
you to accommodate additional metadata that doesn't
show up in a service targeting popular music
basically any time you have a feature request you need to think about the ongoing cost vs reward. if you let sales drive this process you can easily end up chasing your tail just to land them their commissions.
i don't think its that unusual. you have to say no sometimes.
i don't think its that unusual. you have to say no sometimes.