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We think that everyone has the right to speak their minds. Vint is the place to share your opinions or stories on any subject. Before Vint if you were not a massive brand or have no power, there wasn't a method to reach a wide audience.

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I agree that people have the right to speak their minds, but why cap it at 20 "messages" per day? Is this backed up by any psychological research or did the team set it up arbitrarily?

I'm thinking if I want to really use the app, I'd like to personally control how many messages or views I'm bombarded with. Perhaps I want to hear something every waking hour of the day (so ~18 messages). But maybe some days I would like much less or much more. Why should Vint control my ingestion of messages?

20 messages is the sweet spot between to much and to little for users to leave. But the real reason for the limit in the messages is to maximize the audience. In Vint, there are only twenty messages per day. The same messages everyone sees.

"But the real reason for the limit in the messages is to maximize the audience"

Can you explain this further? Do you mean to say that if you bumped up the number of messages to 40, you will not be maximizing the audience because there are too many messages? Are you curating these paid messages manually?

Exactly right. If we increase the number of messages per day, less people will read each message. We do curate each message manually. (It's only twenty of them)

Is there an audience yet on Vint?

Growing by the minute.

Actual numbers?

We launched today (3 hours ago). We will get back to you with numbers at the end of the week.

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