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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 tannedNerd »

austenallred wrote: post #34
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.

Genuinely curious why not pay for fantastical? It has basically the same widget, plus an iPhone and Mac app for a 1/3 of the price? Not to be mean, but this seems like it only got traction because they got accepted to YC on another idea, otherwise would have been lost in the sea of dozens of other much more full featured or free calendar solutions?

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

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Post by jordandearsley »

thatoneguytoo wrote: post #33

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.

Thanks for mentioning, it's definitely not for everyone. We've found a set of users who do care enough about this seemingly minor problem.

We also have a much bigger vision for this than a calendar app. The Google Calendar integration we've built is the base for every other platform we plan to bring in, like Slack and GitHub.

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

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Post by cced »

austenallred wrote: post #34
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.

I bought fantastical quite a few years ago for something like $10... single payment. Still works. They have offerings for 6.99 cad a month.

How many QoL are you willing to buy? You’re essentially paying $10 for a netflix subscription only it’s a calendar widget in the top menu bar.

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

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Post by jordandearsley »

ballenf wrote: post #72

I really hope you're willing to share some metrics on your findings in regard what you said somewhere below was this exploration of the level of pain you're addressing. I would think that churn is going to be high and one of your bigger challenges unless there's stickiness that I don't see. Are you worried about iStat Menus, Bartender, Alfred or Better Touch Tool adding your product as a feature? Is there a hard prob…

Yeah definitely! On average, our users use Superpowered 10 times per day. It's an ingrained part of their workflows.

It's not only a single button to join a meeting, but it's also the ability to peek at your calendar without opening a tab. That might sound minor, but it's worth it for people who do it 10+ times a day.

I wouldn't say we're worried about another tool building one-click join. Other tools exist that do. We're branching out of the calendar space to bring work platforms like Slack and GitHub together into a unified platform. Our focus is on work platforms, theres is not.

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

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Post by rsweeney21 »

austenallred wrote: post #34
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.

For context, Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School, so efficiency wins are going to be pretty valuable for him.

Also, as a CEO you are constantly thinking in terms of ROI. It doesn't matter how much software costs if it pays for itself several times over. This spills over into personal purchases too.

(BTW, big fan of what Lambda School is doing Austen.)

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

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Post by leits »

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…

Even more absurd is that there are free and more functional alternatives: https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar

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

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Post by holistio »

Everybody is raging about the price here, and unfortunately I also have a rather negative take.

And it's about YC in general.

Wasn't YC about building the next billion dollar company? I have restrained myself from applying because my ideas and projects were rather indie-devvy smaller things and I felt like for YC I need to low key change an industry.

Is YC also the incubator for menu bar widgets now? What does that speak about YC?

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