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Formbricks Shows the Hidden Complexity Behind a Simple Survey Widget
A developer's weekend project to build a survey widget balloons into 167 API endpoints in the open-source Formbricks product. The core survey logic requires only six endpoints, but browser constraints, versioning, and management APIs add 161 more. This gap between the feature and the full product is often underestimated in software.
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The article vividly illustrates why shipping a product is far harder than building a feature, a reality every developer should internalize.
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