Bring back sneak peaks

[Ordog]

Can we revive this section of the community please

Sneak Peeks (Archived)

Twice a month, and sometimes more, there were regular sneak peeks and updates on what was being considered or worked on. You could even subscribe in app to receive them.

I was going to give a reason, but it’s summarised in the blog post why this is valuable for everyone

We’ve always believed that the best way to build features that are useful and delightful, is by working closely with our users from the beginning. By sharing your ideas and feedback, and helping us understand how you use Monzo, our community has helped define what, when and how we build new features, shaping our product strategy since the very start.

As more and more people start using Monzo, we want to find new ways for everyone to engage with what we’re doing, and make sure lots of you can get involved.

As I understand this transitioned into Making Monzo, but I feel it’s not quite the same This only shares things that have been completed already rather than going on the journey from it’s initial concept.

It goes over so many things, including some early designs back in 2017 for cashback!

[JIMMWX (Village Idiot)]

@Ordog

going on the journey from it’s initial concept.

I think we’re way past those times, we can’t be more than 0.000001% of Monzo customers now.

I too long for the days of active involvement but also see that really, the way that Chase and HSBC engage with new feature development is probably the way Monzo also now need to.

[michaelw90 (Michael)]

“Sneak peaks” - I don’t want to have a category dedicated to looking at the tops of mountains

[BenC]

I suspect it’s just much easier for them not to talk about upcoming features.

I mean look at the Connected Accounts thread, the moment someone from Monzo made the mistake of saying a certain card provider was being worked on, that poor staff member was hounded.

There are other examples too, I’m sure.

It would be nice to see though.

[N26throwaway]

I love this idea. And I’d vote for it if it had a vote button.

The caveat is though, and I suspect the reason we don’t have this anymore (in addition to a public roadmap), is because a few folks will ruin it for the rest of us, no matter how well Monzo manages expectations.

They get away with it as a much smaller community driven startup, but they’re not that anymore, though I wish they could be.

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

Sadly, I’m with the negative comments above. The ‘experiments’ push trigger in the app ended ages ago, and recently, the ‘feature flags’ also seem to have been abandoned.

With such a structural change, it seems the app has now matured beyond experimentation. And by default, exposure.