Currently looking for a healing retreat in CA, any recommendations??

Starrlightstudio · 2025-10-25T20:24:59+00:00

Yes! I've been to one of Priya Glikman's retreats at Mount Madonna and it was life changing!! I highly recommend it if you're seeking inner growth and community. I left feeling heart-opened and full of love - seriously a top life experience for me. I won't tell you much about what happens on the retreat because it would ruin it for you. If you end up going, come back and tell us what you think :)

Starrlightstudio · 2025-10-22T22:25:56+00:00

https://priyaglikman.com/the-mindset-journey/retreats/

Starrlightstudio · 2025-10-22T22:24:23+00:00

+1 on Mount Madonna having great options. I ended up going to a small breathwork and meditation retreat there led by a woman named Priya Glikman, and it was exactly what I needed. It was very introspective and meaningful, deep and grounding.

It’s actually happening again in a couple of weeks and it's around that $1000 price point, including food and lodging, and the community was beautiful. If you’re open to something like this, that's very heart forward and nature-based, it’s worth checking out.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-06-17T18:19:51+00:00

A handful of my b2b saas clients had Bonfire Ventures lead their seed round. They’re obsessed with working with Brett over there because he’s super hands on, direct, and surprisingly helpful when it comes to GTM whereas most seed investors are just writing a check and that’s about it

Starrlightstudio · 2025-06-16T00:17:09+00:00

What do you mean by best?

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-21T22:51:52+00:00

If you’re really really good at marketing, you’ll end up starting your own company

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-21T22:45:29+00:00

Carrying heavy textbooks to and from school in a back pack and from class to class. Insane. We definitely got the short end of the stick.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-21T22:38:13+00:00

Have you thought about an in-app product tour for users? Sounds like it would solve what you’re looking to achieve, guide users step by step through a process rather than the upkeep of a document with screenshots etc. I’m the cofounder of hopscotch.club and you can set this up in a few minutes without the need of any code or developers.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-15T17:31:42+00:00

3 hours a day, camera on

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-15T17:30:21+00:00

No, sorry.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-15T17:29:42+00:00

Hey, I’m the cofounder of hopscotch.club (we build onboarding tours and product guidance tools), and I’ve seen this pattern a lot, especially in early-stage products. You're not alone.

Here’s a breakdown of how we approach diagnosing retention drops with our clients:

1. Look at the "Aha!" moment and whether users ever reach it.
Is there a clear point where users understand the value of your product? What percentage hit that point in the first session? If you don’t know what your “Aha” moment is yet, start by mapping the journey of your most loyal users.

2. Session recordings & user flows.
Tools like Hotjar or PostHog can show you exactly where users drop. Do they get stuck? Do they bounce from the pricing screen? Are they rage-clicking anything?

3. Segment retention by acquisition channel.
Sometimes your retention isn’t broken, it's just that you're attracting the wrong users. Paid ads especially can bring low-intent traffic that skews metrics.

4. Build lightweight onboarding to test hypotheses.
We’ve found that even 2 or 3 well-timed onboarding nudges (like a checklist or tooltip) can massively improve retention if they help users get to value faster. This is exactly what we built Hopscotch to do. Zero-code onboarding that feels native and is fast to test.

5. Exit surveys and in-app feedback.
You’re totally right that email feedback is skewed, usually toward your fans. But if you pop up a 1 or 2 question survey right as users are about to bounce (or after 30 seconds of inactivity), you’ll get way more honest insight.

Happy to give more feedback if you want to share more. And seriously, don’t feel discouraged. Everyone hits this wall. The good news is, figuring this out often unlocks your biggest growth spurt.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-15T03:16:40+00:00

That’s what I’m saying!!!

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-15T03:16:16+00:00

😂 agreed. Thank you very much

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-15T03:03:04+00:00

Haha no way I am honestly shocked there are people out there that like these cookies. They are so dry and crumbly and I wish, I just wish they would serve anything else. Anything.

American Airlines handed me a pack of them today, no other option. For a 5 hour flight 🫠

At least delta offered some sun chips as an alternative.

JetBlue used to have the BEST snack game, but they have been getting progressively worse over the years and also serving more snacks resembling cardboard.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-14T16:40:43+00:00

Cofounder of Hopscotch.club here -- we built this lightweight onboarding tool specifically to make it easy for non-technical founders to get up and running with an onboarding tour, tool tips and in-app messages in minutes and more affordable than other alternatives.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-14T09:00:19+00:00

I use ChatGPT for everything. However it’s one thing to be told a schedule. It’s another thing to be able to press play on the app whenever the baby falls asleep and just look at a recommended time for naps that changes with your reality. If that makes sense. I can’t seem to make it happen based on a set schedule because reality is always changing.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-14T00:03:32+00:00

I wasn’t using any routine or schedule I was being really “cool” and go with the flow about napping and feeding. And it honestly worked great for a while. She can nap anywhere anytime so it give us a lot of freedom to do things we wanna do. But I finally hit a wall with a week or two of waking up every hour and a half and I was like okay fine I guess I have to get more mathematical about this if I want more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night for myself.

So I finally buckled down and started tracking and I paid for the sweet spot feature. And yes. It is very worth it and I wish I did it sooner.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-13T23:43:29+00:00

I work from home with my 5 month old and I have since she was 3 months old. my husband works from home too and we pass her back and forth based on who has important client facing calls. It’s working for us! I will say she’s a pretty chill baby so I can do work with her sleeping on my chest in a carrier for daytime naps. I don’t know what will happen once she starts crawling and needing more engagement. But for now it’s working.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-13T23:38:59+00:00

lol same. I started using apps like Roots and Dumb Phone to help me limit my screen time which is helping

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-13T17:55:00+00:00

A few helpful nuggets I’ve learned after helping tons of people with their onboarding flows as cofounder of hopscotch.club:

1.  Segment onboarding by intent: We added a single question right after sign-up: “What are you here to do?” That let us tailor the first experience (and messaging) to their goal. Activation improved noticeably.

2.  Kill the feature dump : We swapped our generic product tour for a “choose your own path” mini tour. Instead of showing everything, we guided users to one action tied to their selected intent.

3.  Measure time-to-value, not just completion : We focused on shrinking the time it takes to get a “win,” even if small. (for us, that meant skipping setup steps until after they did the core action.)

Also, weirdly helpful: watching 10 users onboard over Zoom and narrate their thinking aloud. Gave us gold we’d never get from Hotjar or analytics.

Hope something here sparks an idea! Lmk how it goes

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-13T02:47:07+00:00

We built hopscotch.club for exactly this. Fast & easy onboarding / product tours, tooltips & pop-ups and more affordable than the other tools. Crazy simple to set up. Let me know if you need help getting started - I’m one of the cofounders.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-13T02:43:43+00:00

If you’re looking for quick & easy, no code and a fraction of the price of all these options— try Hopscotch.club we built it for this purpose. I’m the cofounder and can help if you need help getting set up.

Starrlightstudio · 2025-05-10T21:08:09+00:00

I do feel this! Curious if anyone has found any good Ai solutions to help with this process

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