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Retain

Launched this week

Retention. Payment. Security

Retain is retention and payments infrastructure for businesses whose customers either return or don't. It identifies customers drifting from their usual pattern, brings them back using habit research, then goes quiet once the behaviour holds. Every intervention runs against a group deliberately left alone, so the number you see is the difference we caused, not a coincidence. Web and PWA install as a script. Anything else sends events over the HTTP API. No charge until the business earns.

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Launch tags:Analytics•Payments•SaaS

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Maker

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I've shipped 76 browser games. Games are built around one question, what makes someone come back tomorrow, and after enough years of that you start noticing it everywhere else. I also work in behaviour change professionally, where the same problem appears at population scale: knowing what to do is not what changes what people do. Habit, timing and environment decide that. Then I looked at my own analytics and found week one retention sitting at zero across every cohort. I had built the wrong thing well. That was the point where retention stopped being an interesting problem and became the only one worth working on. The problem Businesses spend to acquire customers, then lose most of them quietly. Roughly 77% of users are gone within three days, and the median consumer app keeps 4 to 7% past a month. The tools that exist either report what already happened, or send messages and take credit for whatever the chart does next. None of them can tell you whether the customer would have come back anyway. What changed with the launch Two things, both from actual conversations rather than planning. Every business owner I spoke to could tell me their signup numbers. Not one could tell me their day 7 retention. The product I thought I was selling, better interventions, was not the problem. Not knowing was the problem. Two of the four also flinched at the word notifications. Both were building in sensitive categories, and both wanted the measurement without anything reaching their customers. So measurement became the entry point, and the intervention became a switch you turn on later rather than the thing you start with. The third change was to pricing. If the whole claim is that we can prove what we caused, then charging for anything we cannot prove is incoherent. So the holdout is free and permanent, and the invoice reflects the measured difference, or there is nothing to invoice.

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6d ago

💎 Pixel perfection

@jordan_leahy1 The shift from interventions to measurement is a strong product decision. I upvoted this, and making the holdout free while charging only for measured impact is a compelling way to align the pricing with the actual value created.

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4d ago

Maker

@spotch_founder Thanks. Some months the honest invoice will be zero, but it was the only version that held up.

The measurement first shift came from being told no twice, which was more useful than any amount of planning. Both were building in categories where reaching customers directly felt intrusive, and both wanted the picture without the intervention. Better entry point than what I started with.

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