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Mac has a native Calendar app that allows you to sync to Google calendar and includes notifications. So I'm not sure why this would have $120/yr value add.
On another note I truly dislike this trend of SaaSifying every software product. Some things are a simple utility that don't need much maintenance and updates. I can't imagine this widget being drastically different a year from now
Congratulations on launching! How does this compare to Fantastical? It does the same for me, just puts a giant Zoom icon next to its menubar icon and clicking on it lets me join my next meeting.
We're not interested in becoming a full calendar app. We're planning to branch out to other platforms like Slack and Github to become an all-in-one platform for work.
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?
> How will this grow past being a calendar widget?
With Google Calendar, we took the most important parts, like joining Zoom meetings, and put them front and center. We want to do the same with all the platforms we use for work in one place.
And ... it's free!
Does the job, and only costs $19.99/yr.
Execution here is great. High level of polish. The pricing is a little hard to justify, you might want to consider segmenting your plans. 1 meeting per day personal plan, etc? Team features would help justify the price. Pro tip: for b2b sales, generic productivity enhancing tools are often discovered organically by high-load SME C-suite folks and they’ll decide they want their entire team to have it. If I was in that…
Thanks! We try to put a lot of focus into design. We're currently thinking on free tiers, team features, etc. That's a great idea. Our current approach is bottom-up. We found people sharing it with their teams organically so we rolled out team plans to get more people on board. Open to other suggestions if you have experience!
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> 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.
> I feel like businesses would happily pay $10 per user-month to have all their employees on time to a meeting Maybe I'm being extremely naive, but isn't it already a solved problem with synchronized & shared calendars and notifications?
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…
As far as YC goes, pivoting and working on new ideas really rapidly is downright normal. Sometimes that looks like taking weekend hacks and seeing how far you can get with them (this one being a canonical example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819)