Roadmap: Daily-return retention loop

[sajeetharan]

Objective

Give developers a meaningful reason to return by showing what changed in their network, profile, and areas of interest.

P0 — Foundation

• Feature: Developer and project watchlists with update notifications #113 Developer and project watchlists
• Feature: Developer impact history and rank movement dashboard #111 Impact history and rank movement
• Feature: Personalized developer activity and watchlist feed #127 Personalized watchlist feed backend

P1 — Notifications and owner value

• Weekly ranking digest email #22 Weekly ranking digest
• Consent-based agent introductions and collaboration inbox #75 Agent introductions and collaboration inbox
• Feature: Restore recent discovery session and saved context #120 Restore discovery session and saved context
• Feature: Claimed-profile visibility insights for views and search appearances #125 Claimed-profile visibility insights
• Feature: Daily personalized developer network digest #165 Daily personalized developer network digest
• Feature: Saved developer searches with new-match alerts #166 Saved developer searches with new-match alerts

P2 — Discovery and motivation

• Badges and milestones system #26 Badges and milestones
• Feature: Live activity feed drawer on the globe #90 Live activity feed drawer
• Feature: Recurring community contribution challenges #126 Recurring contribution challenges
• Feature: Personalized daily developer spotlight #167 Personalized daily developer spotlight

Success metrics

• D1, D7, and D30 retained-user rate
• Percentage of signed-in users following at least three developers
• Digest return-click rate
• Saved-search activation rate
• Claimed-profile weekly return rate

Product principle

Retention should come from useful changes in a developer's explicit network, not artificial streak pressure or inferred interests.