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This is a fascinating piece. After using Duolingo (20 day streak 😇) I can see the relevance behind the article. Thanks for sharing, great listen.

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Thank you so much! Super glad you enjoyed it. Yea they have an absolutely incredible product.

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Super interesting to see how they show an onboarding without a paywall, because I feel that this is usually what most experts currently recommend. What I definitely struggle with is to put the sign up so much later because it's so much easier to subscribe to a paid version of the app when you are signed up already. Thank you as always for the great input, I really appreciate it.

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My pleasure! And thanks for dropping in with a comment :) That was definitely one of my favorite takeaways as well, I'd love to put that to practice and see the results.

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Not for that, always a pleasure to read your thoughts and content. When your newsletter pops up I know that I a) have to block some time right now or b) mark the mail as unread because I definitely want to read it. ;-)

Is there any good tool you use to AB test stuff like that or are you relying on analytics data?

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That's so awesome to hear 🙏 Re. A/B testing and analytics, do you mean for my posts? If so, I don't believe there is a way to AB test on Substack, and the analytics/stats we get are still pretty thin in terms of reading engagement. Would love to see more data insights within substack around how people are reading.

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Nah I was talking about AB testing inside the app itself because you wrote that you'd love to put that to practice and see results.

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Aah, gotcha. Yea we use Amplitude Experiment for stuff like this. Works great because we use their other products, like Data and Audiences.

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Duolingo is always going to exist. They will teach math to school children. Meet me in 10 years…. We’ll be right back

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Good analysis at all, immerse in reading it. Actually i am a big fan of Duolingo, put widget on my phone's screen so that I can't miss day streak

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