Journaling app users abandon features for trust and data privacy assurance
Users of personal journaling apps care less about feature richness and more about whether they can trust the product with their private thoughts and data. An indie developer discovered this after adding features that users ignored while churn correlated with trust signals. The gap is not capability but credible data ownership and transparency.
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