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Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by jeswin »

jordandearsley wrote: post #15
petargyurov wrote: post #12

I'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?

> As a dev, I almost always miss my GitHub notifications unless I'm constantly checking the platform in my browser.

But why would anyone be constantly checking GitHub notifications? Isn't that a distraction?

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by jeremyis »

petargyurov wrote: post #12

I'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…

> Can someone give me an example of this problem? To me this feels so "extra"... Maybe I'm missing something.

The business value of missing a notification or meeting can be really high. I feel like businesses would happily pay $10 per user-month to have all their employees on time to a meeting. Or even just closer. I imagine similar logic can be applied to other notifications.

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by thatoneguytoo »

Wow. I have more than 5 meetings a day, I miss meetings, and I still don't see myself installing it, let alone paying for it.

Is it really such a big pain that you need to join a meeting on time? Usually someone messages me asking me to join in case I miss it.

Someone at YC be: Ima give this $120K coz why not.

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by austenallred »

petargyurov wrote: post #12

I'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…

I pay for it. It makes my life easier and saves me time.

It's not really hard to make my life $10/month better, and who knows how many people that is true for? I wouldn't overthink it.

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by jordandearsley »

nvrspyx wrote: post #21

Let me get this straight. $10 a month of a calendar widget that's only available for a single platform? Plus, these quotes don't really help. > “No more looking for the Google calendar tab in Chrome.” Maybe use the native calendar app then? Or make an app shortcut for Google Calendar in Chrome? > “I just joined a meeting 3 minutes late instead of 5 because of Superpowered, which is a resounding success in my book.” U…

Thanks for the feedback on those quotes! We'll look into changing them.

> Maybe use the native calendar app then? Or make an app shortcut for Google Calendar in Chrome?

I myself used to be an Apple Calendar user. Eventually I had to switch to Google Calendar for work. Plenty of our users are in the same boat and Google Calendar doesn't support native functionality.

You definitely could make a shortcut or find another workaround to replace one of our features, but given how many feature requests we get from users, that wouldn't be enough for a lot of people. We have customers who agree it's worth it for them.

> $10 a month of a calendar widget that's only available for a single platform?

We currently are a calendar widget, but we're now branching out of the calendar space to become a unified notification inbox.

I understand for pricing purposes we're on the higher end, as mentioned in the note, this is intentional to validate we provide enough value.

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by CSDude »

Trying to be constructive, but why would it even be a subscription model? Although it looks nice, I would think twice even spending 10$ once for it (mostly due to our currency's value). Also, since it's an Electron based widget, is the memory overhead considerable for just a calendar widget?

Also, how does this YC Launch work? Does not seem related at all with your original idea (not sure if it's a deal-breaker though?)

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by nkotov »

I have on average about 3-10 Zoom calls daily and I definitely see the value for this. Right now, I'm literally bouncing between Outlook, opening calendar invite, pressing the link, having Safari launch a new tab, press Allow, and then Zoom opens up.

Curious to know what the longer term plan is. How will this grow past being a calendar widget?

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by trinix912 »

nvrspyx wrote: post #21

Let me get this straight. $10 a month of a calendar widget that's only available for a single platform? Plus, these quotes don't really help. > “No more looking for the Google calendar tab in Chrome.” Maybe use the native calendar app then? Or make an app shortcut for Google Calendar in Chrome? > “I just joined a meeting 3 minutes late instead of 5 because of Superpowered, which is a resounding success in my book.” U…

> Maybe use the native calendar app then? Or make an app shortcut for Google Calendar in Chrome?

Exactly. The built-in Calendar app is adequate for most tasks (definitely adequate for just delivering notifications).

Besides, there are quite a few decent free calendar widgets out there already.

> “I just joined a meeting 3 minutes late instead of 5 because of Superpowered, which is a resounding success in my book.”

Set your calendar to notify you 15 min before the meeting starts. It's a trivial problem to solve without paying $120/yr.

> We priced it towards the higher end to see if we're delivering enough value to our users

Sorry, but you're marketing your app as "luxury" without delivering any luxury.

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by jordandearsley »

bombcar wrote: post #19
jordandearsley wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Many people have the notification center on Do Not Disturb indefinitely. It's noisy and unactionable for a a lot of people, including myself.

We want to integrate deeply into SaaS platforms to provide one-click access to features within those platforms. For example, viewing and resolving comments on a Google Doc. This just isn't possible through Mac's notification center.

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