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A bug saved the company

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379 points ingve | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 09:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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gertlex ◴[26 Aug 25 16:43 UTC] No.45029016[source]▶
While the bug is how soon the cutoff occurs and the prompt is shown...

Comparing the dialogs; did the 15-day expiration dialog have a "purchase" button at the time of the bug? (its screenshot in the write-up does not.) Making the purchase easy to initiate with the purchase button seems like something that would increase conversion rate, too.

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1. geoffpado ◴[26 Aug 25 18:02 UTC] No.45030094[source]▶
The way I read it, the first dialog showed up the first time you launched the app, and never had the Purchase button. The idea was that 15 days later, you’d see the second dialog (after 15 minutes of recording). Due to the bug, however, the second dialog showed up after 15 minutes of recording from day 1.

The second dialog was always shown (and presumably always had the purchase button), but the difference was between whether users got 15 full free days first or not.

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2. gertlex ◴[27 Aug 25 04:58 UTC] No.45035616[source]▶
Gotcha! When going back to sanity check before my comment, I clearly was skimming too lightly to pick up on that.