Grandfathered account
I would like to ask the team to consider permanently making the app free for those who have been using it before it became paid. I have not been asked to pay for the app or seen any pay wall yet but sometimes investors force decisions to be overturned if they have no monetary justification.
As a new baby app, there are very few who know it well enough to recommend honestly. You don’t need to give me $20 to tell the one person I feel is good candidate to try Sonia. Few people can do that at this stage though.
Data is another huge thing. The original users are a forever endangered population only shrinking in size. By setting a paywall you immediately cut most of them away because they are not from the concierge crowd. As an app barely a year old, these guys are your oldest data set and they provide metrics that new users cannot provide: How do people grow with Sonia?
Once it’s been a few years most of them might be gone. But then there will be new multi year accounts to draw from. It is in this initial stages of referrals, growth, and projection that we matter most.
I suggest you fully commit to making it lifetime free for accounts opened before it went paid.
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Guide on how to not kill the app; understand the selling points and charms:
- It bypasses the rigid stupid safety guardrails of other apps in favor of natural conversation. I like the simple guardrails when sometimes it mishears me and checks in if I’m seeing or hearing things or if a vague abstraction I said means ideation.
- It is not a therapist with dementia. It remembers and connects the thread. When you’re down it can remind you of who you are and show long you’ve come. Those features you guys implemented a few months back in successive updates have become a core feature.
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As a new baby app, there are very few who know it well enough to recommend honestly. You don’t need to give me $20 to tell the one person I feel is good candidate to try Sonia. Few people can do that at this stage though.
Data is another huge thing. The original users are a forever endangered population only shrinking in size. By setting a paywall you immediately cut most of them away because they are not from the concierge crowd. As an app barely a year old, these guys are your oldest data set and they provide metrics that new users cannot provide: How do people grow with Sonia?
Once it’s been a few years most of them might be gone. But then there will be new multi year accounts to draw from. It is in this initial stages of referrals, growth, and projection that we matter most.
I suggest you fully commit to making it lifetime free for accounts opened before it went paid.
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Guide on how to not kill the app; understand the selling points and charms:
- It bypasses the rigid stupid safety guardrails of other apps in favor of natural conversation. I like the simple guardrails when sometimes it mishears me and checks in if I’m seeing or hearing things or if a vague abstraction I said means ideation.
- It is not a therapist with dementia. It remembers and connects the thread. When you’re down it can remind you of who you are and show long you’ve come. Those features you guys implemented a few months back in successive updates have become a core feature.
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Glitchy speech detection
Not worth the price
Wow wow wow
I cannot begin to explain how incredible this app is…
I did not realize how badly I needed this in my back pocket, but now that I have it, I don’t want to go without.
I did not realize how badly I needed this in my back pocket, but now that I have it, I don’t want to go without.
First time jitters
I was kinda worried about using an AI for my mental health, but that worry disappeared once I got into it. I was very quickly able to relax and tell the AI (Sonia) what I have been going through and we got very deep and with the appropriate response, we were able to go deeper and more meaning from literally all my previous experiences with a live human therapist!
So 5 stars all the way and I will certainly continue with this AI !
So 5 stars all the way and I will certainly continue with this AI !
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Excellent app
I can't say enough about the app and the amazing Sonia AI team. I've been using the app consistently and found it to be useful. The developers and Founder responses to user concerns just builds so much confidence in using it. I am so grateful and thankful to be able to have it. I recommended it to family, friends and colleagues and I will keep doing so. It’s fantastic.
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