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Explore episode Sep 9, 2026

If you know your users are falling off during onboarding, then you know which screens aren't selling your app well enough. If you track all of the feature clicks on your app, you can identify your app's most compelling value proposition and then communicate that in your marketing.

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Drawing a direct line from Eyal and Yali's success to the power of knowing how to build with AI, Pat promotes Starter Story Build — a live, cohort-based accelerator designed to take founders from idea to working product in just a few weeks. The pitch is grounded in the episode's narrative: Eyal and Yali were able to iterate and rebuild because they had the technical skills to do so. Starter Story Build promises to give non-technical founders those same capabilities through AI tooling. The call-to-action directs viewers to the first link in the description to secure a spot before the next cohort begins.

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