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
The new redesigned header
I could go into more detail but many UI changes I did consisted of consolidating components and colors (using the green more sparingly (perhaps too sparingly…). It started to dawn on me even though AI has made it faster to develop software - the implementation of FE work could not be fully automated from Figma.
Organized a group demo talk series with friends where I gave a short presentation about IPW and my motivations behind it. Although it didn’t increase signups as expected (maybe because many of my friends were already on the platform) it was comforting to see many of my ideas resonated.
https://embed.figma.com/proto/LNSlYiytwIaJvcR0sy54HA/valuesbasedsoftware?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=1-6&p=f&viewport=45%2C339%2C0.02&t=tDppG2ZhXQea28EN-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&embed-host=notion&footer=false&theme=system
I also launched recurring reminder emails to have people remember to post.
An interesting part about developing and designing is you run into many micro-fixes. For example when replying to a post I had to specify categories from previous weeks would be added by default.
I’ve also been manually updating the weekly quote but I want it to cycle through a JSON file to make it easier.
Now that I’ve noticed more people using the site, one major issue is that it’s hard to query for things you might be interested in. Before there wasn’t even a filter everything was in chronological view. As someone developing it by myself I didn’t have time to do fancier fixes so for now I implemented filters, popular/recent, with image.
If there aren’t enough posts popular defaults to showing pictures with images / longest text first.
The goal is posts with more context get more engagement because they put more effort, while still allowing users to use it for their chiller archiving purposes. Once I hit 100 users, I think I’ll add following.