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Comment on: Ask HN: How to think about retention when the goal is churn?
>Dating apps have the same problem to some extent I guess.No. I think Kent Beck tweeted something along those lines, that the mere fact one was still using the app meant the app failed to do the "job to be done" and my reply was that the tweet assumed that search would stop once a match was found, when clearly it wasn't necessarily the case. Many users do concurrent processing of matches, with some being better than others as their processing algorithm is more efficient, and they can handle more IO and compute workloads. Some do round-robin. Though others pin one thread for processing matches