#113 - Co-founders Reunited!

#113

                            February 14, 2022

                #113 - Co-founders Reunited!

                        Seeing Rob in person once again, the launch of the 2021 Reading Wrap-up, customer interviews, and improving the user experience with book editions.

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#113 | 14 February 2022

Co-founders Reunited!

When I last saw Rob in person, The StoryGraph was in beta.

When I last saw Rob in person, The StoryGraph had 234 users.

When I last saw Rob in person, he hadn't even officially joined StoryGraph yet!

So yeah, a lot has happened since then, and as you might have guessed, I'll be seeing him in person soon! 🥳

In a hotel in London, 1 February 2020, the last time we were together in person.

I'm very much looking forward to working on the product side-by-side and replacing our Virtual Reality table tennis breaks with real-life basketball ones!

Fun fact: I noticed on StoryGraph this morning that Rob is reading a book that I read the last time I was abroad. It was November 2019 and I was in Japan. Rob had just gotten in touch about potentially helping me out with my startup... 

Maybe by the time I arrive in the States he'll be done and we'll be able to talk about it face-to-face! 🥰

Since last time...

The 2021 StoryGraph Reading Wrap-up is finally live! 🎉
There's a whole range of stats in there, including most read moods, average rating, how long it typically takes to finish a book, longest and shortest reads, best and worst months, and so much more!

Everyone seemed to love the fun collage of all the books they'd read last year:

And our Plus users got a little something extra:

I'm also in the middle of a customer interview round! I've been chatting to people who pre-ordered a Plus subscription at the end of 2020. I'm learning about their experience using the product over the last year and how the Plus offering fits into that. 

I'm particularly enjoying how similar everyone's answers are despite how different from one another each interviewee is!

Next two weeks

As well as working on some tooling for our volunteer librarians, we hope to address some common pain points users have when searching for and browsing different book editions in the app.

What I'm reading right now

I'm really enjoying my reread of Bring Up the Bodies!

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. :-)

Haven't tried The StoryGraph yet? Check it out today!

Love the app? Consider upgrading to our Plus plan!

Want to volunteer? Apply to be a Librarian!

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