The last time I brought up the topic of product/market fit (PMF) was Issue #62.

PMF: that sweet spot where your product perfectly fits your market's needs and usage skyrockets and then keeps climbing. 📈

And despite the fact that we now have over 170k users, growing by over 1k every day, with 14k users visiting daily, and almost 50k visiting each week, we still don't have it! 😔

How do I know? It's the same story as before:

We spike, and then it tapers off before starting to plateau.

Something to be wary of when you're seeking PMF is falling into the Next Feature Fallacy trap.

"Just this one extra feature and everyone will love the product and use it all of the time..."

It helps that I'm aware of this trap since of late I've been saying to the team: there are just a handful more things we need to do to really round out the experience and then...

Really, we need to understand what drives people to use The StoryGraph: what all of those who stick around have in common and what insights can be gleaned from those who leave!
 

 

Spot the "Add note" link?

Now users can build up their very own digital reading journal on the site! 🤓

Slogging your way through a book and decide you don't want to continue with it anymore?

On The StoryGraph you'll still get credit for any pages read! 🙌🏾

We're starting to shift focus towards the Community aspects of the app.

We've been beta testing our upcoming similar users feature with a handful of our volunteer Librarians and so far the feedback has been really positive. 

We hope to roll out V1 for everyone soon, with an enhancement for Plus users. 😏

I also want to get a better handle on our metrics. There are people out there who use the site every day: What brings them back? Which features give them the most value? 

Having an answer to these questions will help us figure out our priorities and get closer to product/market fit!
 

I'll be picking up Nir Eyal's "Hooked" this week.

Don't worry — we're not trying to build an unhealthily addictive product! We just want to build something readers absolutely love. 🥰
 

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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