Even though we're not gearing up to launch like last year, the beginning of a new year is an important time for reading apps.
Readers are feeling inspired and excited, setting all of their reading goals and joining reading challenges. We want StoryGraph to be ready to support all aspects of that.
For reading challenges that don't have an end date, we need to allow users to archive them whenever they want to. Some people's dashboards are getting rather busy!
Within the next four weeks we need to have buddy reads ready, set up our official 2022 reading challenges, allow users to archive old ones, make it possible to gift a Plus subscription (this ideally a week or two before Christmas), have our January Pages Challenge set up (more on this below), and start thinking about our end-of-year wrap-up feature...
We can do it all, right? 😅
Wish us luck because we're certainly gonna try! 😁
Since last time...
Work on buddy reads has started in earnest! 🙌🏾
Typically, a buddy read is where you read a book alongside 1 or 2 other people, and either discuss it as you go or at the end. Our offering will cater to both styles, allowing users to ignore comments that react to parts of the book they've not read yet.
I was hoping to be further along with this by now, but buddy reads is one of those features where lots of little extra considerations and edge cases crop up regularly!
Next two weeks
Apart from finishing buddy reads, we recently floated an idea for a "read a page a day in January" challenge for the chance to win some prizes and it went down really well with our community. We'll have to set that up soon to give everyone a chance to hear about it and get involved!
Our Instagram followers seem to be really excited about this idea!
What I'm reading right now
I'm reading the final book in the Jacaranda challenge that I'm doing with Abbie! Yes, it's a big one, but it's an easy read, so hopefully I can fly through it this week!
Have a great week,
Nadia
P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)
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