#52 - Happy One Year Anniversary, Newsletter! 🎉
Reflecting on a year of newsletters and an update on our plan to spread the word about the site more widely!
#51 - Read With Us!
Join in with today's May Bank Holiday Readathon! Also, exciting news: Goodreads imports are now completely self-service from within the website! 🥳
#50 - Putting TSG Out There
Is it time to start engaging with discussions about there being no great Goodreads alternative? Also — "Ordered for you" is now available for all! 🎉
#49 - A Little More Polish
When the rough edges on a beta site start to grow in importance. Also, news of "Ordered for you" feedback and developments!
#48 - Please, Tell Us!
On the necessity of us hearing all feedback and pain points from our users, the release of monthly stats, and fine-tuning "Ordered for you"
#47 - Reading At Home
A feature that's helping during lockdown, another feature that we're furiously iterating on, and a final feature that's hopefully coming this week!
#46 - Goodbye, Personal Recommendations!
Why we've finally shut down our personal recommendation service and what we're focusing on instead.
#45 - Fighting Behaviour
On whether we keep our personal recommendation service around and our new "Recommended for you" sorting tool.
#44 - Personalisation V1
Our 'Personalisation V1' roadmap: Private profiles, following users (not in a social network way!), and ordering results to find your next read!
#43 - Everyone's A Mood Reader?
We want to know: are you mood reading right now? Also — updates on last week's customer interviews and the next focus for the website.
#42 - An Excellent Experience
How we can make the site even more personal and valuable and the final group call of the current Editor testing programme.
#41 - A Little Better Every Day
Improving the site each day, giving you better insight into your reading stats, and looking ahead to the final Editor group call.
#40 - Try Before You Buy
You can now try our personal recommendation service for free — no payment details required!
#39 - Upping The Ante Again
A slow week, but some exciting updates nonetheless, including news of a new business partner!
#38 - So, how will you make money?
Why the fact that we didn't have a big uptake of personal recommendation credits isn't concerning and before and after screenshots of the site!
#37 - Would you like a personal recommendation?
We're opening up our personal recommendation service to the first 20 people to register their interest! Also, news on the site's upcoming redesign.
#36 - Nobody wants to pay...?
The results of the personal recommendation experiment are revealed and why we likely need to focus on design and user experience now.
#35 - But, will strangers pay?
How do we test if anyone will pay for personal recommendations outside of the official beta testing programme? Also: new reading challenge features!
#34 - Not A(nother) Social Site
Why the product is moving away from any more social features for now and upcoming product improvements around reading challenges and design.
#33 - On The Right Track
Results from the December 1:1 check-ins with the paying users and figuring out priorities in the face of good feedback.