September 14, 2020

#67 - Indirectly Trending

Discussing our little burst of Twitter fame, revamping the revamped recommendations page, customer research, and maintenance tasks!

View this email in your browser Indirectly Trending   On Friday, a particular topic was trending in the UK on Twitter...   👀 It was trending because this article had just been published on the New Statesman website:     And since The StoryGraph was billed as the reason that "Goodreads' reign....might be coming to an end", well, we were essentially trending on Twitter too! So, yeah, Friday was a wild day of keeping up with a sudden influx of 5000 new users. 😅   Still waiting on the day that line keeps on going up and up. 😆 I'm pleased to say that we made it through without any big issues. A great improvement from a few months ago! 💪🏾 Oh, and welcome to all the new email subscribers! I'm so happy to have you reading along! Y'all made me have to upgrade from my free Mailchimp account. 😏   Last week   All of my grand content warning plans got mislaid! Our brief Twitter fame explains what distracted us at the end of last week. But what about the beginning? Well, remember the new, flashy recommendations page we announced?     Too many people didn't like it at all or found it really confusing, and so the first half of the week was spent analysing the feedback and deciding what to do with it.   I am sure glad we got the update in before the article came out. 😅 Don't worry, Rob. We'll find a different, better way to give people live, on-the-go, recommendations! 😂   This week I'll be finishing off my current round of customer interviews and then synthesising all of the feedback. I hope to share some findings in the next issue!   A screen grab from my interview with the fantastic Lindsey of @bringmybooks.   There is a growing list of bug fixes, maintenance tasks, and small features that need chipping away at, so there might not be any new, flashy updates next week. 😅 Okay, maybe one...  👀   What I'm reading right now Picked this one up to read alongside The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet:   I plan to watch the film over the weekend since I'm reading it for Reading Women's 'Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation' reading challenge prompt. Have a great week, Nadia P.S. If you know a friend 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 beta site yet? Give it a go today! Were you forwarded this email? If you liked what you read, you can subscribe for future updates and catch up on past ones. Copyright © 2024 The One-Woman Dev Team Diaries, All rights reserved. <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">Subscribe for a behind-the-scenes look at my StoryGraph founder journey and beyond.</span></p> Did this email take you longer than one minute to read? Let me know! Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.