Product
Onboard

Progressive Feature Discovery

Reveal advanced features gradually as users master basics to prevent overwhelm and improve long-term engagement.

CaptureProduct
$npx gtm-skills add product/onboard/progressive-feature-reveal

Outcome

≥35% of users who unlock an Intermediate feature use it within 14 days

Leading Indicators

  • Unlock rate
  • Post-unlock adoption rate
  • Time to first unlock

Instructions

  1. Define success metric and pass threshold (≥35% use advanced in 14d).

  2. In PostHog, create events for key actions; ensure app tracks all interactions.

  3. Instrument critical path with clear PostHog event names.

  4. Build minimum viable version with simple UI.

  5. Launch to 10-20 users via PostHog feature flag.

  6. Track progression in PostHog; create funnels for drop-off analysis.

  7. After 7 days, compute metrics vs. threshold.

  8. Review PostHog data for patterns and friction.

  9. If passed, document and proceed to Baseline; if not, iterate.

  10. Record observations for optimization.

Recommendations

Time

6 hours over 1 week

Play-specific cost

Free

Tools

PostHogProduct Analytics