Bounded notifications: BeReal does this well—users know to expect just one notification per day that prompts them to share. More broadly, “once daily” or weekly apps such as Lobby reliably limit the number of notifications sent per time period. Contrast this with habitual social apps that send seemingly unlimited notifications based on a complex,... See more
This experience emboldened my observation that most product teams only spend the final mile of their experience building the product thinking about (and testing) the first mile of the customer’s experience using the product.
maybe we are at a "failure of imagination" point for most, if not all, consumer subscription services in how they relate to their users (pricing, everything)
But podcasts remain relatively inexpensive to produce and unencumbered to distribute — and for almost everyone who listens, something they’ve only known as a free form of media.