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How To Cut Scope Without Killing Momentum Like An AI Product Manager (🤖 AI PM Series)

When your MVP starts looking suspiciously like a V3, here’s the conversation I have with Claude to bring it back down to earth.

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Ian Khor
Apr 17, 2026
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A few months into building Dowyn, my lightweight habit tracker, I found myself staring at a backlog that had quietly doubled in size. What started as “a simple way to log habits and see streaks” had collected attachments along the way: social features, streak recovery logic, a theming system, reminders that would only f…

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