To get this data you need to invest in PWA-ifying your website. Users adding non-app-like experiences to their homescreens is apples/oranges
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Confoundingly, Web Push is unbundled from app install. When we tell folks this it takes them a little while to get it, then "ooooooohhhhhh!"
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This is *great* for users, but makes the A/B test much harder to do rigorously.
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Imagine you're the Tumblr or Reddit PM: what's your *goal*? Is it to tell a great story to your boss/board about the # of installs?
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(remember that installs aren't a business metric; they may have zero correlation with profit.)
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In SF, "installs" too often viewed as a strong proxy for growth. Savvy folks know better, but definitionally there aren't many savvy peeps
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You can often get promoted for a long time by driving up installs even if all you're doing is strip-mining user value & slowing development
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Small companies too often do this organisational learning in a darwinian way. Big companies outside of tech can frequently apply more rigor.
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...but they tend not to be as familiar with all of the options. And there's no marketing department for the open, interoperable web.
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Very few businesses have run real A/B tests and fewer will share the comparative native app/PWA engagement/cost data.
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(for obvious reasons; it's either competitive advantage, potentially embarrassing for the folks internally who pushed native apps, or both)
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We have an inexact proxy in the cost to acquire a user installation (the top of the "install" funnel of engagement). Those #'s look *great*
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http://Housing.com 's cost to acquire a PWA user is 50x lower. Selio's was (only) 10x lower.
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