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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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jordandearsley wrote: post #35
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…

> 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.

Dog you can sync Google calendar with your built in calendar then run Next Meeting[0] in your menu bar. You can even have a global shortcut to open the meeting link. All my work meetings are in scheduled through Google Calendar and take place in zoom, and all I do is hit Hyper-Z[1] to open the correct meeting link.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/next-meeting/id1017470484?mt=1... [1] Hyper being Cmd-Opt-Shift-Ctrl which is remapped to one key on my keyboard. You can make it anything you want, obviously. My point is I don't even have to touch my mouse to get into the meeting.

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

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Post by fireeyed »

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…

YC funds widgets ? What are the economics of this thing. A thousand developers can copy or open source similar alternatives.

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

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Post by atleta »

trinix912 wrote: post #90
atleta wrote: post #49

Is Superpowered really a wise name choice? If you look at https://superpowered.com/ , you'll see that it's in use by another startup. They're doing something completely different (mobile sound SDKs), but still, it's not like it's a personal blog or niche webshop etc. that you may hope buying at a reasonable price one day.

Super- is just another one of those startup name enhancers like -ly/-fy. Superhuman, Superpowered, Super...

Yep, but in this case the name is exactly the same. (Although I never understood the choice for the original one either. But that's a pretty interesting story of a solo dev guy who really just cared about his product and not growing a business. Despite this, and with the help of a bizdev guy he made an exit.)

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

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Post by qiyuxuan96 »

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…

It's just a MVP... version 0.01 of their vision. The fact that they have paying users who use them daily is a very, very good signal - that's a hard thing to do! It's so much easier to add additional features to that group of users later.

I see so many negative comments and can't help but think of this (first comment on DropBox's HN launch): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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

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Post by jordandearsley »

asattarmd wrote: post #100

Why is it Electron based when it’s not cross platform?

We chose to use Electron both so that we could build faster coming from a web development background, and to leave the option open to being cross-platform in the future.

Even though its Electron, making it completely cross platform is non-trivial. A bunch of things are still platform specific (ex. the Windows menu bar works completely differently).

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

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Post by Skhalar »

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 think what you're paying for is someone to sync your calenders for you.

Similar to ring camera. You're just paying someone to make your cctv camera available to you over thr internet instead of you setting it up yourself.

I personally hate these services but some people would pay $/month for this convince.

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

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Post by jordandearsley »

holistio wrote: post #99

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 s…

We've been working on this product for two months. Three of us are engineers.

We have a much larger vision for this product, becoming an all-in-one work platform, starting with Slack and GitHub integrations. We're still working out what that will look like. But it's a going to take a lot longer than two months to build.

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

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Post by leits »

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?

I am currently working on a service for GitHub project reports and analytics. Would you be interested in that? If so, leave your mail here and I'll put you in beta! https://sneak-peek.io/product/ohmycode

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

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Post by leits »

fireeyed wrote: post #102
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…

YC funds widgets ? What are the economics of this thing. A thousand developers can copy or open source similar alternatives.

You will laugh, but a year ago I made same service in open source: https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar/

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

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Post by jordandearsley »

king_magic wrote: post #97

There's no way I'd pay $120/year for this. It's cute, but... hard to see how this is a YC-level startup.

Thanks for the feedback. It definitely isn't for everyone. As mentioned in the note, we priced it a bit higher to validate that we were delivering enough value to our users. So far, we have users who get enough value out of it to pay for it.

We also have a much larger vision for this product, but we need to start somewhere. Bringing Google Calendar into the menu bar is the first step in bringing all the platforms we use for work together.

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