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Do you run a consumer to web app? What do your users say? What's the predominant device and OS?
by goosejuice 29d ago
Do you run a consumer to web app? What do your users say? What's the predominant device and OS?
- reaperducer 29d agoI do. With over 200,000 paying users. The Customer Service department (we're a real business, so we have one of those) forwards all email, social media, and phone contacts about it to me. Number of middle managers who have brought up having an app since 2019: Around five. Number of actual users who asked for an app since 2019: One. Maybe two. Your turn.
- ericjmorey 29d agoIf you offered an app, do you think new customers would choose the app over a browser interface? Do you think most existing users would switch? Do you think there are many people who don't use your service because there's no app?
- reaperducer 29d agoNo. No. No, because that's not how our industry works.
- goosejuice 29d ago> Number of actual users who asked for an app since 2019: One. Maybe two Have you ever asked them?
- reaperducer 29d agoSurprisingly, yes. My company requires everyone in the company to meet our customers in person once a year. Everyone from the CEO on down to tech nerd button pushers like myself. Our method of telemetry is called "talking to people."
- goosejuice 28d agoI'm not sure why you find the snark necessary. I wouldn't find it productive to talk to 200,000 users in person to determine if it's worth building a native app. I suspect most startups talk to some of their customers in person but I don't know anyone making sweeping product decisions based on that.
- reaperducer 28d agoI wouldn't find it productive to talk to 200,000 users in person Fortunately, our company has more than one employee, so one person does not need to talk to all 200,000 users.