Show HN: A forced ranking exercise to stop priority inflation

[anticlickwise]

In many planning meetings, everything sounds important. So everything stays.

Weeks later, progress slows not because people aren’t working hard, but because attention is split across too many “priorities.” I kept seeing the same pattern: teams avoid prioritization not out of laziness but because it forces uncomfortable trade offs.

So I built a small tool called What Comes First. It removes scoring frameworks and debate and forces a single constraint: if only one thing can be first, what actually comes first?

This started as an internal exercise. I built it solo and used Notion heavily to stay organized and recall decisions while iterating.

Would love feedback from people who’ve dealt with priority inflation in real teams.

Link: https://www.cognu.app/what-comes-first

[anticlickwise]

Happy to clarify anything here. This isn’t meant to replace roadmaps or frameworks. It’s more of a conversation trigger something to surface disagreement early instead of discovering it weeks later in execution.

Curious how others here handle prioritization when multiple stakeholders are all “right” at the same time.

[PaulHoule]

What UI framework are you using?