User posts fell a bit below 30 and I sent a monthly recap email to people who haven’t posted the last 1-2 weeks but used to post. That email actually ended up reactivating 9 users!
Due to the speed of AI driven development I was able to implement several user requested features.
I also noticed that numbers were slightly decreasing. I wondered if there was a way I could incentivize users that were slightly active, as in those who posted maybe a week or two ago to come back.
In vein of IPW being a place for abstract methods of expression, I was very interested in adding a way for users to represent themselves in other ways than the visual. At first I was interested in asking users to represent themselves as some abstract concept, eg. a flower, meme, etc. I then realized I was really asking for their favorites. I prototyped some ways to ask users for these on onboarding.
When testing I learned that many people did not want to do this on onboarding and would instead churn. I decided to add it in a more subtle way, only appearing if the user has hovered over their profile.
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So far 10% of active users have found and used this feature. Wonder if I can bump this up more!
After running financial mode as an experiment I found only 7% of users actually had it turned on. I decided to deprecate it to improve the space amount of space I had on the profile and improve the onboarding experience.
A huge blocker to me finishing the profile experience was the perceived amount of time it would take. However after getting featured in Naive Weekly, I decided the number of new users would be good to try pushing this new feature and seeing if people filled it out.
At the request of a few users I added retroposting which allows you to fill in your grid. Interestingly enough, a user who requested it hasn’t used it yet. I did notify people via the weekly email that this
I also did many smaller UI fixes as the purpose of the app became clearer such as rework the topbar and filters to have consistent styles for each and repurpose the IA