{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Price Power","title":"20: Opal Killed the Quiz Funnel. What's up next? ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1591,"description":"Opal rebuilt their onboarding to work like a chat thread instead of a quiz, and Jacob walks through the whole thing screen by screen. The rock you crack open on the first tap, the sign-in question that replaced the sign-in buttons, the moment they tell you you'll spend eighteen years of your life looking at your phone, the paywall, and the monthly plan they only offer you if you try to leave.\nThis is a solo episode, so it goes deeper on the screens than a conversation usually allows. An app at Opal's scale doesn't ship an onboarding redesign without testing it hard first, which makes it a useful thing to study. The question isn't whether it works. It's which pieces of it would work for you.\nWhat you'll learn:\n• Why the first screen of your app is probably leaking more users than your paywall is\n• How Opal replaced the Log in / Sign up wall with a question\n• Why more login options usually pay for themselves once you scale\n• The phrasing trick that gets people to answer a demographic question honestly\n• Why Opal asks about your screen time before asking for screen time permissions\n• How they split their permission requests apart, and what they put in between\n• The three-beat setup: 91 days this year, 18 years of your life, then the rescue\n• How paywall copy pays off a goal the user selected five screens earlier\n• Why the trial reminder screen has almost nothing to do with reminders\n• What \"design your trial\" is really doing to the user's decision\n• The math behind pulling monthly off your first paywall\n• The exit-intent monthly offer that almost nobody runs\n• Why \"no payment due now\" keeps showing up next to the CTA\n• What the Law of Shitty Clickthroughs says about the future of quiz onboarding\n• The screen-count test for whether chat onboarding fits your app\nLinks & resources\n• Retention.blog full written breakdown: https://retention.blog\n• Opal: https://opalapp.com/\n• Andrew Chen, \"The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs\":...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/zQmNoGN5MuGeMOqTvMb2DuPbwhjQUVEJ-q54eTGsg0c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMDkx/MTljNmYxN2FkNGFm/NDIwOWMyNzU0MmQ1/M2ZjZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}