Comment by atonse

2 years ago

I haven’t looked closely at your product but there was a similar one that launched a few months ago on HN and it was almost a joke the way they launched it.

Almost every single one of their techniques and incentives is were bound to fail exactly if someone had ADHD.

Like they had a 14 day trial where you had to remember to keep launching the app every day and things like that.

Guess what, someone with ADD would forget to launch the app, and definitely blow through a silly 14 day trial before they could even realize any value. It showed me exactly how clueless they were about their audience.

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kurikuri  2 years ago

> definitely blow through a silly 14 day trial before they could even realize any value.

Even worse: the trial was probably sign up with card before you buy and many people with ADHD will still be _paying_ for the service long after the trial ran out...

> It showed me exactly how clueless they were about their audience.

It sounds like a grift that knew _exactly_ who their audience was...

[disclaimer: I didn't check which service you are talking about, so this may not be the case. This does seem to be a trope, however.]