How much is feature bloat costing you?
Calculate the true cost of building and maintaining features nobody uses. See what you could save by cutting the dead weight.
Feature Bloat Calculator
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Count all shipped features, including legacy ones
Percentage of features with meaningful user engagement
Full-time engineers (IC + managers)
Fully loaded cost (salary + benefits + overhead)
Time spent maintaining existing features vs building new
How long the product has been shipping features
Unused Features
78
Out of 120 total features
Maintenance Cost / Year
$900K
Total engineering cost spent on maintenance
Wasted Maintenance / Year
$585K
Maintenance spend on features nobody uses
Cost Per Unused Feature / Year
$8K
Maintenance Debt (5yr)
$2.9M
Cumulative wasted maintenance spend
Eng. Hours Wasted / Week
156
Hours per week maintaining unused features
Engineers Worth of Waste
3.9 FTEs
Equivalent full-time engineers on dead features
If You Cut Unused Features
$585K / year saved
Annual savings by eliminating maintenance of unused features
Tools to fight feature bloat
Use feature flagging and analytics tools to measure usage before building more. Pendo and Amplitude track feature adoption. LaunchDarkly, Split.io, and Statsig let you gate features behind flags and kill underperformers instantly.
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