7/1

I’ve always seen some symbolic meaning behind July first as the official marker of the half year. At this point there’s been enough posts on IPW that I wanted to try and improve it on the following vectors

1. Archival
   1. Users at the point probably have at least 1 or 2 projects they’re working at a time - setting up a container with a specific goal date will add additional purpose to the app / have it be more helpful as a general project tracking tool
2. Project discovery and connection
   1. As projects reach eventual maturation, it could be used as a way to find interesting well thought out projects
   2. This is probably just a different view than the traditional long scroll
   3. Quality in documentation + having a site for it could = higher long term engagement and quality posts
   4. Need to figure out how to increase passive / discovery engagement / feedback ;;
3. General UX fixes
   1. Type hierarchy for individual posts
   2. The individual posts view
   3. Improve the categories, at this point it’s easier to see all the posts at once per week, might be better to sort it by
      1. Seeking feedback / launch / general wip
      2. traditional art / web / writing

5/1 Increasing user post rate & analysis

User posts fell a bit below 30 and I sent a monthly recap email to people who haven’t posted the last 1-2 weeks but used to post. That email actually ended up reactivating 9 users!

4/15 User based feature development

Due to the speed of AI driven development I was able to implement several user requested features.

• Following - 31% or 47 with an average of 3.83 following
• Zen mode - 4.7% or 7 users have this turned on

I also noticed that numbers were slightly decreasing. I wondered if there was a way I could incentivize users that were slightly active, as in those who posted maybe a week or two ago to come back.

3/15 Alternative modes of expression

In vein of IPW being a place for abstract methods of expression, I was very interested in adding a way for users to represent themselves in other ways than the visual. At first I was interested in asking users to represent themselves as some abstract concept, eg. a flower, meme, etc. I then realized I was really asking for their favorites. I prototyped some ways to ask users for these on onboarding.

When testing I learned that many people did not want to do this on onboarding and would instead churn. I decided to add it in a more subtle way, only appearing if the user has hovered over their profile.

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So far 10% of active users have found and used this feature. Wonder if I can bump this up more!

2/15 Deprecating financial mode, onboarding, profiles

After running financial mode as an experiment I found only 7% of users actually had it turned on. I decided to deprecate it to improve the space amount of space I had on the profile and improve the onboarding experience.