The race to TEN MILLION users! [Competition time]

Thanks for the invite. I’ve drawn my own conclusion.

conclusion_by_davidwalton_NFT_spesh_ape

Soon to be available vis OpenSea. Going, going, gone. NFT fortune here I come

EDIT; Original, hand-drawn one-off further enhanced to deliver even more intrinsic value to the highest bidder :see_no_evil:

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I shall buy it with my CrapCoinPlus3000, before it goes to the moon

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My Sunday 6th Feb prediction came and went with the usual

Maybe Sunday 13th Feb is the new Sunday 6th Feb

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Nah, it’ll be Thursday at 3pm

I bet 9th of February at 10:36am, so I shall see you back here tomorrow at 10:36am.

My plan of referring every single person I meet in the streets is coming true, I will win this mini-competition

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I kinda find the countdown a bit pointless given that we can’t actually count down any more.

I’ll pop back in once we’ve been told when it’s been achieved. :man_shrugging:

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I doubt it would update in real time, and the manual job would fall through the cracks.

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I mean, this always happens with startups. Initially everything is open and transparent, and then slowly, bit by bit, things become more “corporatised”. It’s a shame. You can speculate on the thinking behind it; I suspect that this reveals too much information to competitors, so someone didn’t really like it. Better to save the numbers to be spun nicely in the annual report :man_shrugging:.

Still, personally it feels it’s a pretty petty thing to hide.

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Possibly they’re about to do a marketing push and don’t want people to know if it’s effective or not

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Transparency by default! Errm.

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:eyes:

Where you gone?

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These things are, in my experience, massively overblown.

Imagine you’re the evil Board of Revling, intent on driving you out of business. You cackle as your latest act of corporate esionage delivers you a precise user number… What do you then use it for? How do you achieve competitive advantage?

The same goes for roadmaps and a whole load of things. If you’re confident in your product and trajectory it should change nothing. You make the climate, not respond to the weather.

The calculus here is the benefit of user engagement against the marginal (if any) harm of competitors having the information and the extra (?) publicity generated by a surprise press release. But again, how much more effective would the latter be against one that engaged users know is coming? Marginal, I suspect.

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Where you gone?

tbh there wasn’t an announcement soo I assume I was wrong :frowning:

Might still be today

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Think I put 11/2 around 13:45 :sweat_smile:

Bingo. Sharing ideas/roadmaps/plans helps you build trust with users and gives them consistent clarity on the direction of travel. It absolutely does not help your competitors in any way, because it’s not the ideas themselves, it’s the execution. Virtually nobody is building things that have never existed, and no two companies are ever likely to be prioritising the same things at the same time.

This is pertinent for me right now as I try and make Twitter a more transparent company in my role.

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We must be close to 6 million. It should have happened by now, right? @AlanDoe any news??

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Must have by now

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Surely

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monzo-dot-com currently says not yet