App of The Day

Since last time, we’ve been Apple’s App of The Day in both Canada and the US! 🙌🏾

Read With Us

We’re experimenting with what larger buddy reads would look like. They’re currently capped at 15 people, unless they’re being run as part of a book club.

Over the years we’ve had requests to increase that limit further (we started on 8, then 12, if I recall correctly…) or to have StoryGraph-hosted buddy reads for each book.

So, to tie in with the upcoming movie release, we're currently hosting a buddy read for Project Hail Mary.

Rob and I buddy read this a couple years back and we both thought it was great. He’s rereading it now. I’m not.

Credit “Giveaway”: One Week To Go

Only one week left for publishers and authors to be able to buy an unlimited number of giveaway credits for the discounted beta price of $49 for a Standard giveaway and $249 for a Premium!

Awards Analysis

An old colleague mentioned me in this tweet:

Very cool:

I haven’t read the full thing yet but I plan to take a closer look at some point.

Do you know of these awards? Do they typically produce a shortlist that’s worth checking out?

Reviews Page Upgrade

I’ve been working on this for the last couple of weeks now:

I thought it’d be finished by now, but there are some UX niggles I need to iron out.

After this is deployed, I’ll be adding a full filter menu to the pages.

What I Read in Feb

Check it out:

Have you read any of these? Agree with my ratings?

12 Years Dancing

Tomorrow will mark 12 years exactly of me starting to take dance class.

If you’re on Instagram, you can check out this lil’ preview to the project I’ll be launching tomorrow:

You can also check out how I was dancing on 10 March 2014:

Then check back on my page on 10 March 2026. 😁

Whoop. De Do?

Anyone have one? How long have you been wearing it?

I’ve been given one by someone who’s upgrading and I was obsessed the first couple weeks but the novelty may be wearing off a little bit.

I have another month free but I’ll probably have to upgrade the device straight away as I’m charging this one every few days and the battery pack doesn’t hold charge for long either.

User-Generated Walkthroughs

This post by @momsreadingera was awesome:

Every time I share some user-generated content like this at least one user will reply and say that StoryGraph itself should be producing such content.

I disagree. I reckon my efforts should be focused on making the product as intuitive and user friendly as possible. In the meantime, users can and should still generate stuff like this. It hits different when it comes from a passionate user rather than the company itself. Kate converted a bunch of people to Plus!

What I’m Reading

I hope to pick back up on my slow chronological read of Toni Morrison novels this week with Jazz.

Have a great week,

Nadia