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Crossing the chasm?

It's been 2 months since my last update.

In April, the MAU of Goals has almost quadrupled without active marketing. It seems it's all through organic Play Store search (ranking #1 for keyword "goals" and 3 - 6 for keywords "goal tracker") or word-of-mouth.

The revenue also tripled from March to reach $1.4K/mo.

I am super excited about the next few big initiatives I am going to launch. I think they will make the app light-years ahead of competitors and can potentially kick-off the app's growth engine.

However, in the past week I've been hit with many 1 - 2 star reviews. Only one or two reviews are bug/performance related which I know how fix. Most other negative review are about requiring an account or the app is not free.

It doesn't feel great to read them. "These people have no empathy and don't care how much hard work I've put into it. I wish they knew I got bad neck and shoulder pains from working long hours to make the app as great as possible." Yeah, I felt sorry for myself lol.

So yesterday, after I got another 2-star review without explanation, I decided to hack my motivation - by going out for a 5K run for each future bad reviews. I used to hate running but now I know it makes me feel good and tough afterwards.

On a positive note, it seems the app is getting into the hands of main stream users who are more critical than early adopters who have been so patient and kind to me.

I guess I want to believe that the app is mature enough to become a main stream product, and it feels kind of scary. I gotta be prepared for that.

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