#114 - Stats and Suggestions

#114

                February 28, 2022

            #114 - Stats and Suggestions

                The most popular Plus features, the co-founder reunion, impending Early Bird renewals, and the next instalment of our Instagram book club. 📚

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#114 | 28 February 2022

Stats and Suggestions

One of the things I wanted to find out in my recent customer interviews with Early Bird Plus users was which of the paid features, if any, resonated with them the most.

Two took the lead: Compare Stats — where you can look at the stats from two different time periods side-by-side — and Up Next Suggestions — where we make recommendations for what you should read next from your To-Read Pile.

My 2020 reading compared to 2021. First year in a while where I read fewer books than the year prior. All that StoryGraph work. 😌

I already have five books in my Up Next queue, hence the clear buttons!

The latest research round made it clear that the current focus of adding polish to what we already have is the right one. We can't wait to take Compare Stats (and our stats offering in general) and Up Next Suggestions to the next level!

Ultimately though, our users' main reason for subscribing to Plus isn't because of any particular feature. It's because they want this independent, non-Amazon Goodreads alternative to survive and thrive! 💪🏾

Since last time...

I've been to the States and come back! It all happened so fast! 

A still from a video we recorded for Instagram whilst I was there.

I thought we'd get more done in the way of coding side-by-side, but instead we just had a bunch of product and strategy discussions. It was awesome! 🥰

Apart from that, we've been continuing the work on improving the user experience around browsing and adding different book editions and I worked on some behind-the-scenes tooling for our volunteer librarians.

There are some things our volunteer librarians don't have permission to do. Now, instead of everybody having to scroll past those items to find things to work on, they can assign tickets to a team member directly.

Next two weeks

The beginning of March is going to be very interesting. It's exactly a year since the Plus plan launched so it's time to see how many of the 1400 customers who pre-ordered renew! 👀 

Today and tomorrow we'll be working on providing a way for our Early Birds to transition over to a proper subscription, if that's what they'd like to do! 🤞🏾

What I'm reading right now

For the next instalment of our Instagram Book Club, we'll be reading Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. The live show to discuss it is on March 27th at 12.30pm PT/3.30pm ET/8.30pm GMT, so I'll be starting this one real soon. Do consider joining in on the fun!

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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