Ask for a star rating during onboarding, before people really use the app

Jacob EitingWould change the numbers drastically,

David BarnardRight? The fact that they're - Apps have been... I mean, I've had this question for a long time. Why are all these apps who seem really crappy? Why are they 4.9 stars? In the app that I've poured my heart into for a decade is 4.5 stars. And the answer is when you ask in onboarding and you prompt write, you just get a volume of people who just don't even care and hit the five star and hit submit. So unfortunately the star ratings are so gamed at this point that it's a very poor quality signal. The one interesting thing, I think Ariel from Apfigures was doing this. He devised some ratios of the star rating of written reviews. What number of one-star written reviews do you have compared to the number of five-star ratings? Because it's easy to get somebody to tap the litle five-star thing and hit submit.

David BarnardIt's a lot harder to get them to go actually say something good and meaningful about the product. That's game to some point too, where people are still buying reviews and things like that, but Apple's cracked down on that quite a bit. So it's harder and harder to actually fake their written reviews. So that may be a better signal quality adjustment is to look at written reviews and do some ratios there.