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National Bestseller

Hooked: How to Build
Habit-Forming Products

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

National Bestseller

Hooked: How to Build
Habit-Forming Products

Revised and Updated, Featuring a New Case Study

“A must read for everyone who cares about driving customer engagement.”
-Eric Ries, author, The Lean Startup

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Hooked gives you the blueprint for the next generation of products. Read Hooked or the company that replaces you will.

Matt Mullenweg

Founder, Wordpress

The book everyone in Silicon Valley is talking about.

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Founder, The Next Web

When it comes to driving engagement and building habits, Hooked is an excellent guide into the mind of the user.

Andrew Chen

Technology Writer & Investor

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Hooked Supplemental Workbook

Hooked Supplemental Workbook

This workbook is the perfect complement to Hooked. It is specially designed to help you build your own habit-forming product or service.

Product Psychology

Product Psychology
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We’ve asked the brightest minds in the field to share their best resources on user behavior with our members.

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Behavioral Design
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Hear from bestselling author Gretchen Rubin on “The Secret to Making and Breaking Habits,” industry veteran Josh Elman on “How Twitter Built User Habits”, and more!

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How do successful companies
create products people love to use?

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?

Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hooked Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.

Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.

Eyal provides readers with:

  • Practical insights to create user habits that stick.
  • Actionable steps for building products people love.
  • Fascinating examples from the iPhone to Twitter, Pinterest to the Bible App, and many other habit-forming products.

I speak about product management all over the world, and this is the single book I consistently recommend as a must-read.

Amir Shevat

Developer Relations, Slack

The most high bandwidth, high octane, and valuable presentation I have ever seen on this subject.

Rory Sutherland

Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather

Hooked is the definitive guide to customer engagement and retention in the digital age.

Gibson Biddle

former VP of Product Management, Netflix

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is the author of the bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products.

Nir founded and sold two companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir's writing frequently appears in The Harvard Business Review, Inc, and Psychology Today among many others.

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Did the load of gift returns you made in January make you realize that you need to be a smarter shopper? During the holidays, we’re bombarded with ads and sales pitches that use psychological tactics to grab our attention. These messages make it tough for us to make smart shopping choices.
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How to Build a Habit-Forming Enterprise Product

How to Build a Habit-Forming Enterprise Product

For companies building products for enterprise customers, increasing customer retention by just 5 percent increases profits by 25 to 95 percent. Yet keeping customers isn’t easy. Eighty percent of B2B buyers say they switch suppliers at least once in two years. User retention is perhaps the most important metric for SaaS providers, who offer products or services that must engage customers regularly to ensure they don’t churn.
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How to Build an Irresistible Product for VC Investors

Venture capital (VC) is a great opportunity for new entrepreneurs seeking to bring a product to life—but the funding is incredibly difficult to secure. A survey of almost 900 VC firms found that they consider 101 opportunities on average for every deal they close. Still, the benefits of VC funding are clear.
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3 Reasons Why Subscription Businesses Fail

Subscriptions are hot (and not). Companies and investors love subscription business models since they generate recurring revenue that translates to predictable cash flow. The more money a company is likely to make in perpetuity, the higher its share price.
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You’re Not Addicted to Technology. Here’s What’s Happening Instead.

You’re Not Addicted to Technology. Here’s What’s Happening Instead.

The loudest voices in our culture today say yes. During a conversation about technology on his mega-popular podcast, Joe Rogan said, “We’ve got a real addiction problem in this country.” In a congressional hearing in 2021, U.S. representative Kathy Castor of Florida said that apps are “designed to be addictive.” During his 2020 presidential campaign run, Andrew Yang said, “Our kids unfortunately are getting addicted to smartphones.”
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