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Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by jasonwen on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:38AM (#18218255)
The stories features was also stolen based on data that regular competitors would not have. Facebook used Onavo VPN data from users to see how features affect usage of Snapchat. They can also see which apps are very viral or sticky, which is why they bought Whatsapp for $19B.
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Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by fabricexpert on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:57AM (#18218321)
Is that true? Or just conjecture?

Surely the users of onavo would be self selecting into low economic groups, not indicative of the full population?

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