This week on The Changelog we’re speaking with Nadia Odunayo, founding father of StoryGraph. Nadia began out as a one girl dev and product workforce — she’s needed to alter and maneuver alongside strategy to turning into the Amazon-free various to Goodreads.
We speak concerning the significance of buyer analysis, the iterative nature of buyer analysis and what it takes to synthesize and analyze the findings to information product growth, the technical challenges and learnings she confronted whereas constructing StoryGraph, for instance at a number of factors they’ve confronted challenges in dealing with an inflow of customers and needed to re-architect the system. We additionally speak concerning the enterprise mannequin of StoryGraph and the way they generate income by way of Plus subscriptions, and partnerships with publishers for ebook giveaways.
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- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Web site
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