As I write this, Mango Display has achieved an incredible milestone: surpassing 10,000 active monthly paying subscribers worldwide!
I see this reward as a result of true product obsession. Sometimes a product idea just wont leave you; it stays constantly in your head for years. These ideas are never fully formed when they arrive in and out of your consciousness. And so, like Michelangelo seeing and freeing the angel from a block of marble, it’s something you are constantly chipping away at, in search of the elusive angel.
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo
However, unlike Michelangelo, you can’t really see it 😄, you just believe it must be in there somewhere and so you start to slowly chip away, searching. When you finally see it slowly taking shape and form, it’s an amazing experience. And in the case of Mango Display, it was not just me chipping away at the idea block, but it was also our amazing customers who provided detailed feedback about what they love, don’t love and what they envision it could be for them in their lives.
Mango Display is now used for so many different purposes I could not even imagine. From large organizations like UNICEF to small family farms, as warehouse truck dispatch displays to bakery staff planning, from office bulletin board displays to manufacturing schedule tracking, churches, senior living facilities and more. But our most active, vocal and passionate users are parents! They have told us many times that it is the best thing they’ve ever found to keep their families organized, happy and on schedule. By displaying their calendars, tasks, chores, notes, meal plans, photos and more, it has been a ‘life saver’ (as quoted by many our customers) for them.
I am forever grateful to all our customers and especially our early customers who took a chance with us when our product was early, lacking many features, and extremely buggy!
We still have a lot more ideas, features to build, bugs to fix and quality to improve, as we continue to chip away at it, but it will be our masterpiece, for it remains our obsession.
Thank you.
Dave's Dharma 