half the time
“the team shipped StudyArena in roughly half the time it took to build A1Zap”
As published on listenlabs.ai. Captured by usedby on Oct 2, 2026.
What happened
A1Base, the parent company of the student social app A1Zap, runs user studies on Listen Labs every night to test new product versions with real users. The findings guide what the small team builds next, for A1Zap and for its newer product StudyArena.
Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Listen and A1Base, not ours.
- two to three“running two to three tests every day”
- 10–20“Nightly testing equivalent to a 10–20 person research workforce”
Using that approach, the team shipped StudyArena in roughly half the time it took to build A1Zap.
Being able to verify real behaviors and real emotional reactions and real themes across multiple videos allows us to build deeper confidence and deeper conviction in our product,
What the story claims, and what we checked
We compared the story with its live page on Oct 3, 2026.
- The figure: half the timeCheckedPrinted word for word on the page, near the name of A1Base.
- The passage quoted aboveCheckedCopied word for word from the page, near the name of A1Base.
- The numbers in our summaryCheckedEach one is printed on the page.
- A1Base uses ListenCheckedConfirmed line. Latest check across sources: Oct 2, 2026.
- The result itselfNot checkedWe quote it; we did not measure it.




