Mateo Ríos
@mateo.dev · 5/19/2026
The biggest lever for my retention wasn't a feature. It was the empty state.
New users opened to a blank screen and 70% never came back. I added one pre-filled example and a single line of copy explaining what to do next. Retention doubled. No new code, just less confusion.
Look at your empty states. First thing every user sees, usually the last thing we design.
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Grace Whitfield@gracew · 5/17/2026
the empty state thing is so underrated, learned it the hard way too.
Omar Haddad@omar.dev · 5/20/2026
good thread. would also recommend reading The Mom Test on this.
Elif Demir@elifships · 5/25/2026
so good. bookmarked for later.
Vikram Iyer@buildvikram · 5/28/2026
did you do any marketing or was it all organic?