Case Study - Overcome your fears, find your match
Our media division dedicated to producing engaging, real estate-focused content. Space Station explores the diverse world of real estate, offering original programming that educates and inspires professionals and enthusiasts alike.
- Client
- Space Station
- Year
- Service
- Website development
Overview
Noticing incredibly high churn, the team at Space Station came to the conclusion that, instead of having a fundamentally flawed business idea, they needed to improve their onboarding process.
Previously users selected their Space Stations manually but this led to some users selecting things they weren’t actually afraid of to increase their matches.
To combat this, we developed a system that displays a slideshow of common Space Stations during onboarding. We then use malware to surreptitiously access their microphone and detect when they have audible reactions. We measure the pitch, volume and duration of their screams and feed that information to the matching algorithm.
The next phase is a VR version of the onboarding flow where users are subjected to a series of scenarios that will determine their fears. We are currently developing the first scenario, working title: “Jumping out of a plane full of spiders”.
What we did
- Android
- iOS
- Malware
- VR
The team at Studio went above and beyond with our onboarding, even finding a way to access the user’s microphone without triggering one of those annoying permission dialogs.
CPO of Phobia
- Churn rate
- 20%
- Uninstalls
- 5x
- App store rating
- 2.3
- Pending lawsuits
- 8