Chasing Vanity KPIs

[grindiolsiz]

We’ve been celebrating sign-ups and traffic spikes, but retention is brutal. I suspect we’ve never truly hit behavior–market fit—just short bursts of curiosity. Any frameworks or approaches for figuring out if people’s actions truly match the problem we claim to solve?

[mickeyhakko]

Funny, I once worked on an app that had launch-week fireworks — thousands of installs, everyone hyped — then two weeks later it was a ghost town. We eventually realized people liked trying it, not using it, which stung but made sense. What helped was mapping behavior against the core problem, not just vanity metrics. This article had me thinking about that user/emotion connection in a fresh way: https://www.maticdigital.com/insights/ux-nostalgia-vans-warped-tour. Might spark some ideas.