# A focused tool can beat a feature buried in a giant suite

- Category: product
- Author: Camil (https://indie.md/people/camil/)
- Source: https://indie.md/events/indie-tm-10-timisoara-june-2026/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/single-purpose-tool-beats-suite-feature/

Every video editor already owns a do-everything suite, so the instinct is that a single-purpose tool has no room to exist. SoundScrub is the counterexample: it isolates and removes any sound you can name, and it does that one job noticeably better than the audio isolation built into DaVinci Resolve. Editors will keep their main editor and still pay for a focused tool when it does a specific painful task markedly better than the all-in-one does. The play is not to compete with the suite on breadth, it is to find the one operation the big tool does badly and own it completely. Depth on a single job beats breadth across many when the job hurts enough.