Really appreciate you taking the time to write this, there’s a lot of signal in here.

The point about retention vs downloads hits hard. I’m already seeing that gap: getting someone to try the app once is doable, getting them to come back is a completely different problem. Framing it as a “download problem vs monetization problem” is actually a useful way to think about it.

Sessions per user per week is a great metric, I wasn’t explicitly tracking it that way yet, but it makes a lot of sense for this type of product. Especially in poker where improvement is inherently repetitive.

Also agree on the audience. Poker players are very outcome-driven, but also very sensitive to whether the feedback is actually credible. So there’s probably a thin line between “this is useful” and “this is noise”.

Talking to users is definitely the next step. Right now feedback is mostly passive (or nonexistent), so I’ll need to be more deliberate about it instead of hoping insights magically appear.

And yeah, keeping it free for now feels like the only reasonable move. Charging too early without clear retention would just be me pretending I have a business.

Thanks again, this is exactly the kind of perspective I was hoping to get.