The feature we never shipped.

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Hey—It's Tim. 
We built a glossary feature for Penfriend, and never released it.

You click a button. It generates 200 - 500 terminology pages for your site. Definitions, examples, internal links. The whole thing.

We even sold a few done-for-you versions.

People paid us to make their glossaries.

Then we never released it as a product feature.

It's just... sitting there. In the code. Working in the dev branch. Not in production.

Here's why I'm stuck:

Problem 1: I have no idea how to price it.

200 pages of content. How many credits is that?

Is it 200 credits (one per page)?

Is it 20 credits (because it's automated)?

Is it 500 credits (because it's 200 pages of SEO value)?

I genuinely don't know.

And if I can't price it confidently, I can't ship it.

Problem 2: The quality is inconsistent.

Sometimes the output is incredible. Clear definitions. Great examples. Actually useful.

Sometimes it's... fine? Serviceable? A bit ass?

And I can't figure out the pattern. Why is definition #47 amazing and definition #48 mediocre?

For me to ship something in Penfriend, I need to know it's consistently good.

This isn't.

So here's where I am:

I have a feature that:

• Works (mostly, I can fix it)

• People have paid for

• Solves a real problem (200 pages of SEO content)

• I can't confidently price

• I can't guarantee quality on

Ship it and figure it out?

Or fix it first and risk never shipping?

I'm genuinely asking.

If Penfriend had a glossary generator:

Would you use it?

How many credits would you expect 200 pages to cost?

Reply and tell me.

Because right now this feature is in limbo.

And I need to either ship it or kill it.

See you tomorrow.

✌️ Tim "Pull the trigger…" Hanson
CMO @Penfriend.ai

Same brain, different platforms: X, Threads, LinkedIn.

P.S. This is the part of building products nobody talks about.

You build the thing. It works.
But you don't know if it's good enough to charge for.
So it just... sits there.
While you second-guess everything. Fun times.

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