Wow! I love this. Unfortunately $10/month is a bit high for me, imo. Any plans to bring this down?
Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
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#12I'm sorry for being negative, but paying $10 per month for what is essentially a calendar widget is blowing my mind. The fact that this is even in YC and not just a side project is taking what's left of my brain and blowing it into the stratosphere.
> We’ve only solved a small part of a bigger problem. The SaaS platforms we use for work don't work well together. It shouldn’t take cycling through ten different apps and Chrome tabs to stay on top of everything.
Can someone give me an example of this problem? To me this feels so "extra"... Maybe I'm missing something.
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#13How does this compare to Meeter? (https://trymeeter.com/). It seems to solve a similar niche; but Meeter is currently free.
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#14Wow! I love this. Unfortunately $10/month is a bit high for me, imo. Any plans to bring this down?
Another 'cloud default pricing' casualty. I'd buy more than 5x as many services if the default price was $2/month.
Maybe cloud infrastructure is still too expensive?
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#15I'm sorry for being negative, but paying $10 per month for what is essentially a calendar widget is blowing my mind. The fact that this is even in YC and not just a side project is taking what's left of my brain and blowing it into the stratosphere. > We’ve only solved a small part of a bigger problem. The SaaS platforms we use for work don't work well together. It shouldn’t take cycling through ten different apps an…
No problem at all. Definitely does, it's a broad problem and we're still figuring it out too.
As a dev, I almost always miss my GitHub notifications unless I'm constantly checking the platform in my browser. We want to bring all the platforms we use for work into one native place. Does that make more sense now?
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#16> “I just joined a meeting 3 minutes late instead of 5 because of Superpowered, which is a resounding success in my book.” Not sure if borderline sarcasm.
Thanks for pointing that out, would have never noticed!
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#17Great product, works well, but can't see the need for this to be a monthly cost. Should be a one time purchase
You're not the first to comment on this! Consumer SaaS is still growing. We'd like to fall into the category of apps like Superhuman, Vimcal, and Fantastical.
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#18Wow, how is this is a YC company?
Isn't this more of a weekend project?
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#19I'm sorry for being negative, but paying $10 per month for what is essentially a calendar widget is blowing my mind. The fact that this is even in YC and not just a side project is taking what's left of my brain and blowing it into the stratosphere. > We’ve only solved a small part of a bigger problem. The SaaS platforms we use for work don't work well together. It shouldn’t take cycling through ten different apps an…
No problem at all. Definitely does, it's a broad problem and we're still figuring it out too. As a dev, I almost always miss my GitHub notifications unless I'm constantly checking the platform in my browser. We want to bring all the platforms we use for work into one native place. Does that make more sense now?
Doesn’t MacOS already have an elaborate notification implementation? Would not integrating with that work?
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#20Wow! I love this. Unfortunately $10/month is a bit high for me, imo. Any plans to bring this down?
Thanks! As I mentioned in the note, the pricing is intentional to validate our product. If it helps, we just rolled out a referral program that gives you two free weeks for every friend that signs into the app.