You shipped it. Will people actually use it?

Notes from building consumer products: what makes people use them, and what I learn along the way.

Questions I keep coming back to

  • What makes an app part of an ordinary day?
  • Why do people stop opening an app they used to like?
  • How do you find your first users when your whole market is one campus?
  • Why do travel apps go quiet between trips?

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