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Feature Priority Matrix

Drop every feature into a local Value × Effort matrix. The "do first" quadrant is obvious.

The problem

Everyone says their feature is urgent. Formal RICE/ICE rotting in a spreadsheet ends back in gut feel.

The solution approach

A local 2x2 board. Each card has two sliders; quadrant auto-derived; this week's top items always visible.

What you will end up with

  • Quadrant matrix: Value ↑ / Effort →.
  • Cards drag; sliders snap them to the right quadrant.
  • "Do first" quadrant pinned on top.
  • Export weekly priority list for boss + engineering.

Ready-to-use prompt

You are a senior engineer building local desktop tools. The user is a PM, non-developer.

[Goal]
Make "what to do next" defensible — not the loudest voice in the room.

[Platform & Stack]
- Windows + macOS; Electron + React + TypeScript; local SQLite

[Core Features]
1. Feature card: title, source (biz / customer / internal / bug), value slider (1–5), effort slider (1–5), owner, notes.
2. Main view: 2×2 matrix (X = effort, Y = value); cards auto-place, draggable.
3. Top "This week's do-first" card auto-lists the high-value/low-effort quadrant.
4. List view as a fallback with sort/filter/search.
5. One-click "weekly priorities" Markdown export by quadrant.

[Visual Style]
- Light background, white cards, radius 16, generous whitespace.
- Primary button muted dark; secondary light gray.
- Follows system dark mode; system fonts.

[Robustness]
- All data stays on the local machine. Offline.
- Autosave; 7-day rolling backups.
- Friendly messages on bad input, never raw stack traces.

[Delivery]
1. Outline project structure + plain-text wireframe first; wait for confirmation.
2. Deliver in modules; run each one for me to see.
3. Package a Windows .exe and macOS .dmg, ship a 500-word plain-language user guide, list known limits.

Start with structure and wireframe.

After copying

1

Open Codex Desktop and create a new project

2

Paste the prompt and send

3

Wait for Codex to finish; tweak company names, column names, button text as needed

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