#125 - Repositioning Plus

#125

                August 1, 2022

            #125 - Repositioning Plus

                Potential upcoming tweaks to our Plus plan, accessibility improvements, and our next Instagram live show!

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#125 | 1 August 2022

Repositioning Plus

When we first launched the pre-order page for Plus back in October 2020, we proposed a wide variety of extra features. We weren't sure what we should include and how people would respond.

Almost a year and a half on since the plan's launch, the feature variety has only increased...

A lot of Plus users don't know that they can get stats for their tags!

However, our customer research has shown that the extra features offered are not the number one reason people subscribe.

They mainly do so in order to support this tiny, independent, non-Amazon alternative to Goodreads. Along the way, they may fall in love with a Plus feature or two, but the features are, on the whole, nice-to-haves.

So, as part of taking our business and product to the next level, we started to think: is there a way to reposition and tweak Plus such that in addition to subscribers knowing that they're supporting a small, bootstrapped company, they also regard the entire feature set as compelling and valuable?

We think there is indeed a way and we're excited to explore it with current (and future!) Plus users. 😁

Since last time...

We've updated the way sorting by title works. Now we ignore starting articles such as "A", "An", and "The", making the app a much more helpful bookstore and library companion! 🙌🏾

We'll be adding in provisions for symbols and a few other languages soon.

A blind user emailed us reporting that they were having issues navigating the footer menu bar on mobile. Through fixing that, I learnt even more about app accessibility, improved a couple of other areas, and took away some actions to tend to in the coming weeks.

If you're using iOS VoiceOver or a screen reader on mobile, you can now slide your finger along the bottom menu bar and the icon options will be read out in order with no interference from background content!

Next two weeks

Product-wise, we'll be continuing with the work that I mentioned in the last newsletter as well as addressing some performance and maintenance tasks.

Business-wise, we'll be ruminating on the topic I opened with!

If you have an Instagram account, be sure to tune in to the live Founder Q&A show that Rob and I will be doing on Sunday August 7th, at 12.30pm PT/3.30pm ET/8.30pm BST!

You can catch up on past ones on our IGTV channel! 

(Y'all Americans really take Halloween seriously, it seems. 😆🎃)

What I'm reading

I'm reading my first ever book by V.E. Schwab and I'm enjoying it!

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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