#149 - 4 Million People!

#149

                July 3, 2023

            #149 - 4 Million People!

                Some TSG stats, updating screenshots on the landing page, an update on the software upgrades, and a new feature coming to giveaways.

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#149 | 3 July 2023

4 Million People!

On Friday, I gave a talk at a conference called Brighton Ruby, run by my very good friend, Andy Croll.

The talk had nothing to do with StoryGraph...

Ruby is the language StoryGraph is built in!

...but you could describe my talk as an Augmented Reality one because, before I introduce my Ruby Private Investigating alter ego (🕵🏾‍♀️), I start by introducing myself and my company.

I feature some stats about the product that I reckon y'all would be interested to know, so here goes:

During this year, we've had an average of 4 million unique visitors each month.

45 million pages are viewed across the app and website each month.

And we serve just over 150 million web requests during that time!

When I have a moment of doubt about the product, or a tough time fixing something, or I feel like I'm having a lull in momentum, it's great to remind myself of these numbers. We're drawing in millions of people around the world so we're definitely doing something right! 🤩

Since last time...

The talk that I gave last week features screenshots from The StoryGraph's landing page and so I finally took the time to update the screenshots to feature the new design. I updated the font too!

Before

After

And I got through all of those upgrades I've been struggling with for weeks! We're on the latest versions of Ruby and Rails, and my local environment is back in tip top shape. 👌🏾

Time to return to delivering new and improved features! 💪🏾

Next two weeks

At the moment, everyone who hasn't been successful in winning a prize from a giveaway they've entered, receives this notification:

We're going to be adding a feature to Premium giveaways where the host can customise the message that goes out to all non-winning entrants. The next beta round starts in a couple weeks and I want this feature to be ready for then!

Now we're in July, we've officially entered the second half of this year. The part of the year where we focus on Community.

So, despite not having reached my H1 goals for the product — 😅  — I will be looking to finalise our 2023 Community roadmap based on all of our customer research and surveys, including all of your wonderful responses from a few issues ago! 😁

What I'm reading

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron is right up my alley! I watched the documentary years ago, but don't remember any details.

What are other great books in this genre/style?

Have a great week,

Nadia

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