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MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor

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Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor

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Post by revorad »

jarin wrote: post #28
revorad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do families pay recurring fees for web apps? Apart from some high-quality photo sharing apps, I can't think of any examples.

MobileMe, Geni

Posted it as a separate question - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356589

Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor

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subpixel wrote: post #40
revorad wrote: post #32

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Are you a Flow or MobileMe customer? I'm genuinely curious and want to know why you'd pay for these.

I'm not a Flow customer, but if it solves a problem for me I may signup (I gave up on Things, just started using Wunderlist, but delegating/collaborating are very useful features I've wished for...) I pay for MobileMe b/c it gives me true over-the-air contact/calendar sync on my iPhone. If another solution came around, I might consider it, but could it be free? And if not free, less than $10/mo? I also pay for Flickr…

You, Sir, truly are a rare gem, the kind common web app developers can only dream of.

Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor

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Post by HaloZero »

lovskogen wrote: post #31
revorad wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many examples of web apps can you give me, which are being sold directly to consumers for personal use? By personal use, I mean not for use at or for work. I can barely think of a handful and even those are quite often paid for by the buyer's employer as a perk or productivity investment.

I pay $9 a month for DropBox. Alot of my friends spend $9 a month on Spotify.

There's also Netflix & Rdio.

Re: MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor

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Post by btucker »

Their intro video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxF7F5T-_Z8) is beautifully produced, but man does it make me uninterested in trying out Flow. The video presents a use case (planning a simple party) that already has multiple "free" solutions (SMS, Email, Cellphones...) which seems like a much easier approaches. Do people really want to assign todo items to their friends? I get that Flow is probably capable of much more, but I can't understand why they'd put so much effort into a well produced video that doesn't do anything to sell the product. Or maybe I'm alone in my reaction to it?
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