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FINISHEDNorthwind (demo) 58min 12s 6 participants
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Summary
The team reviewed launch readiness for the v3 dashboard, investigated a churn spike traced to the new onboarding flow, and green-lit the annual pricing experiment after positive results. A production incident from Tuesday was postmortem'd (a Redis eviction issue), and the group agreed to hire a second infra engineer given rising cloud costs. Launch is confirmed for next Thursday, gated on the onboarding fix and a load test.
Decisions
- v3 dashboard launches next Thursday, gated on the onboarding fix + a passing load test.
- Roll back the new onboarding flow's mandatory tour — it correlates with the churn spike.
- Ship the annual-plan pricing experiment to 100% (was +18% conversion at 20% rollout).
- Open a headcount for a second infra/SRE engineer.
- Adopt a weekly load test in CI before each release.
Action items
- Merge the onboarding rollback + feature-flag it
- Run the load test against staging and share numbers
- Finalize launch email + changelog, schedule for Thu 9am
- Write the Redis incident postmortem and add the eviction alert
- Open the infra/SRE job posting and share the JD for review
- Pull the annual-plan cohort retention at 30 days
Topics
- Kickoff & agenda
- v3 dashboard launch readiness
- Churn spike investigation (onboarding flow)
- Pricing experiment results
- Tuesday incident postmortem (Redis)
- Hiring & cloud cost
- Wrap-up & action items
By participant
Rafael
- Flagged the onboarding tour as the likely churn cause
- Owns the rollback and the launch gate
Mei
- Raised the missing load test in CI
- Will run it against staging before launch
Priya
- Confirmed launch scope and comms
- Owns the launch email and changelog
James
- Diagnosed the Redis eviction incident
- Owns the postmortem and alerting
Sofia
- Pushed for the infra hire given on-call load
- Owns the job posting
Tobias
- Presented the pricing experiment results
- Owns the 30-day retention readout
Transcript
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Alright, everyone's here — let's keep this to an hour. Three big things: launch readiness, the churn number, and Tobias's pricing results.
Before that — can we timebox the incident from Tuesday? James has the writeup half done.
Good call, we'll do the postmortem near the end. Launch first.
v3 dashboard — where are we? Are we go for Thursday?
Code's basically done. My worry isn't the dashboard, it's the onboarding flow we shipped last week.
And we still don't have a load test in CI. We're guessing on capacity.
Okay, the churn spike. It jumped from 3.1% to 4.4% in two weeks. What changed?
The only thing that shipped in that window is the mandatory onboarding tour.
The funnel backs that up — 22% of new users drop on step 3 of the tour.
So we roll it back and make it skippable?
Roll it back for launch, feature-flag it, and we redesign it after.
Pricing — the annual plan test at 20% rollout is up 18% on conversion, no hit to refunds.
That's strong. Any reason not to go to 100%?
None I can see. I'll pull 30-day retention on the annual cohort to be sure.
Tuesday — Redis hit maxmemory and started evicting keys we assumed were durable. Sessions dropped.
Fix is a bigger instance plus an eviction alert. I'll write the postmortem by Friday.
Which brings up on-call. We're one deep on infra. I want to open a second SRE role.
+1. The load test and the incident both trace back to us being stretched.
Okay — action items. Rafael: onboarding rollback by Wednesday. Mei: load test by Wednesday EOD...
...Sofia opens the SRE role, Tobias gets retention numbers. Launch Thursday if the gate's green. Thanks all.
Timeline
- 01Kickoff & agenda
- 02v3 dashboard launch readiness
- 03Churn spike investigation (onboarding flow)
- 04Pricing experiment results
- 05Tuesday incident postmortem (Redis)
- 06Hiring & cloud cost
- 07Wrap-up & action items
All events (10)
- Recording started by Priya
- In the call: Priya, Rafael, Mei, James, Sofia, Noah
- Priya spoke for the first time
- Rafael spoke for the first time
- Mei spoke for the first time
- Tobias joined the call
- Tobias spoke for the first time
- Sofia spoke for the first time
- James spoke for the first time
- Priya stopped the recording
Notes
- Rafael: roll back onboarding tour, feature-flag it
- James: Redis postmortem + add eviction alert