#134 - T Minus Four Weeks

#134

                            December 5, 2022

                #134 - T Minus Four Weeks

                        The large amount of work left to do in the next four weeks, progress with stats and usability testing, and our upcoming Instagram Book Club session!

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#134 | 5 December 2022

T Minus Four Weeks

Twenty-six issues later, I find myself in the same position...

Four weeks left to do allll the things! 😅

A lot of people are incredibly excited for their 2022 StoryGraph Wrap-Up!

Of course, the product is awesome as is. But readers always get excited for the start of the New Year — new resolutions, new goals, new reading challenges, and new books to read — and we want to facilitate all of that and multiply the excitement! 😃

Some things coming up include the 2022 Wrap-Up, StoryGraph's official 2023 reading challenges, and the second instalment of our January Pages Challenge. 🤩

Since last time...

After Owned Books Stats, the next thing we wanted to deliver was DNF Stats. However, we knew that there were bigger pain points with the DNF page — namely no search, sort, or filtering — and so we're starting with that first, improving how the behind-the-scenes DNF tracking works in the process as well.

The search bar went live recently!

We're slowly improving our Giveaways platform too. Our latest update was giving people a way to withdraw their entries themselves:

All of the usability testing interviews for our redesign are complete! Now it's time to analyse the results and implement the changes! 👀

Next two weeks

I've not done as much of the stats work as I wanted to by this point due to travel (I'm currently in the US, hence you receiving this newsletter later in the day than is usual) and other product prerequisites (such as with DNFs), so that's still a focus for this upcoming week!

What I'm reading

Soon I'll be starting Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow in preparation for the next instalment of our Instagram Book Club! Hopefully some of you will be able to read the book before December 18th and join in!

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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