We shipped it, measured it, and deleted it eleven weeks later
Deciding the success metric before building is what makes deletion possible afterwards.
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Engagement went up, and it was because the app got slower
Time-in-app rose because loading took longer. A metric that improves under a regression is measuring the wrong thing.
The ad slots on this blog are finished and render nothing
Nine ad placements built, gated and verified to render nothing. What you can decide before approval is where ads may go, and that is the decision that matters.
An app store is a discovery surface. A website is a building.
A store bundles search, ranking, category and the install action into one surface. On the open web each of those is a thing you build separately.