Waitlist
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Dreamer uses autonomous AI agents to research and screen waitlist signups
“So at this point, we pretty much run the company on Dreamer agents for all kinds of important things. Maybe a good example of that is our wait list. People are signing up. Every time someone signs up for our waitlist, a Dreamer agent will actually research tha…”
Saarinen: Product waitlists lose user interest after at most six months
“There's also like waitlist has a decay that it's people's interest doesn't last forever. So I think I would say like the realistic timeframe is probably months or maybe at max six months.”
Osika: Product waitlists exist to control onboarding pace and conduct user research
“I think the waitlists are useful in that you can control exactly how many people you want to get on board and take user interviews with them.”
Mañalac: Longer delays onboarding waitlist users makes conversion harder
“The longer you wait to launch an actual product, And the longer you wait to onboard people, the harder it is to convert people from your waitlist.”
Taggar: One passionate prototype user beats a million waitlist signups
“A single passionate user of a crude prototype that was hacked together in a weekend means so much more than a million signups on a waitlist for something that doesn't exist yet.”
Boufarhat: Hopin hit nearly 180,000 waitlist signups and onboarded 2,000 users
“We have this waitlist now close to a 180,000 and we've probably onboarded about 2000 of it.”