#147 - Thank You For Your Trust

#147

                June 5, 2023

            #147 - Thank You For Your Trust

                On the trust we've built up amongst users, onboarding flow improvements, and upcoming improvements to giveaways!

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#147 | 5 June 2023

Thank You For Your Trust

In the last issue, I asked you to send me your wishlist of community/social features, centred around three prompts.

The last prompt was: A community/social product development that you'd hate to see on StoryGraph.

Because of the way we approach building the product, I'm pretty confident we wouldn't release a feature that would be disliked by the majority of users, and I was happy to see that most of the points mentioned in response to this prompt were things we'd never want to do.

See that whitespace at the bottom of the review? Don't worry — that won't suddenly be filled with comments by strangers. 😆

A few responses to this prompt stuck out to me. They went along the lines of:

"Can't think of anything. I trust that whatever you do will be great. I'm not worried about this at all."

And, knowing that trust is something that is earned and built up over time, those messages meant a great deal. 🥰

Since last time...

We finished all of the onboarding improvements we wanted to make! 🎉

After setting up their community preferences, a user can configure their audiobook tracking, if relevant:

And then, instead of funnelling everybody to the recommendations page, we now recognise that a new user may have other things they're more excited to check out first:

I just love how much more a user will know about what's on offer on StoryGraph by the time they come to the end of this onboarding flow, compared to the old one! 😁

Next two weeks

We'll be getting ready for the next round of giveaways to go live and I'm going to begin exploring the possibility of delivering digital and audio prizes in-app! 😎

We're still looking for authors and publishers to take part in the next round. If that's you, or you know somebody who might be interested, there's more information here: https://forms.gle/KykvLw9eD6f8pz1K8.

What I'm reading

Back with Stephen King, and his Cujo, as part of my (incredibly super) slow chronological read of his books!

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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