Reframe · B2C · app for drinking less
Launch sister apps for other parts of your mission
Team was too small to support them at the time
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What they did
To cover other dimensions of 'peak human condition', the company built and pushed out several more apps while the team was small. Guest says focus on one thing matters; only with a bigger team can they now support multiple apps.
What happened
Guest says the team was way too small to support as many apps as they launched
“Now we've got a much bigger team and we can actually support multiple apps, but back then, when we were doing it, our team was way too small to support as many apps as we pushed out.”
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