Back when StoryGraph was just me and I didn't yet have a product — who was around for those early-mid 2019 days? — this newsletter read more like a personal founder diary.

Since StoryGraph has grown, it's become a mix between a behind-the-scenes founder newsletter and a StoryGraph product updates one, tending more towards the latter.

Now, sometimes there are things I want to write about or news I want share that feels a little out of place here.

Separately, we've got 350k people who have checked this box in the app...

...and yet they very rarely hear from us via that channel!

So I've decided to make some changes!

Starting from the next issue, I'm going to treat this newsletter as more of a personal one once again. There'll be a lot of StoryGraph still, but perhaps more around my processes, thoughts, and feelings, and definitely more on other things going on in my life, and how that may impact my work directly or indirectly.

And I'm going to start sending out emails on a regular cadence to the main product newsletter list! I mean, there must be several thousands of people on that list that still don't know we have Dark Mode or a barcode scanner!

What would you like to see from a more personal newsletter? What topics would you like covered? Any segment/section ideas?
 

The next issue is due July 1st so I hope by then we've got at least one of our planned monthly wrap-up shareable graphics out! 😁

I also want to finally revisit the barcode scanner and get to the bottom of the cases where it never works for some of our users.

And finally, we have to put in place a migration and comms plan for the new architecture. We're likely going to need to take the app down for several hours. 👀
 

Now that I've finished my personal Women's Prize Challenge — I made it with one hour and fifteen minutes to spare before the announcements!! — it's back to this tome that I started a couple months ago!

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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