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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 johnstonnorth »

leits wrote: post #96
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

Thanks for point this out - it is amazing. Superpowered has a lot of catching up to do.

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

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Post by jordandearsley »

andreilys wrote: post #61

Sorry it's not clear to me why this needs to be subscription service? 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…

Thanks for the comment! I used to be an Apple Calendar user, but then switched to just using Google Calendar full-time.

The problem with building a calendar that hooks into other calendar platforms is the requirement of parity. In order for it to replace Google Calendar, it needs to do everything Google Calendar does, and more. I stopped using Apple Calendar because it was too hard to send calendar invites to the rest of my team.

Our goal was never to replace Google Calendar, just to make the 20% you use 80% of the time easier to access.

> I can't imagine this widget being drastically different a year from now

I totally see why you'd think that. For us, we're done focusing on calendars. We're now planning to move horizontally to include more work platforms like Slack and GitHub.

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

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Post by jmarcher »

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?

http://ptsochantaris.github.io/trailer/ is wonderful to manage GitHub work and notification.

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

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Post by nbclark »

leits wrote: post #109
fireeyed wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

I love Meeting Bar. Use it every day. I really like the applescript feature. A hotkey combo pauses my music, launches zoom or meet, and I'm good to go

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

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Post by king_magic »

jordandearsley wrote: post #110
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…

Fair enough, I don't know the vision you have, so I somewhat retract my previous comments. Good luck!

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

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Post by jeremyis »

jasode wrote: post #87
shakow wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then won't notifications from this utility also get buried?

>Then won't notifications from this utility also get buried? I think the idea is that the upcoming calendar/appointment notification is live and always on the menubar . See example screenshot from their web landing page: https://superpowered.me/static/media/menubar.aaa56b48.png I'm building a similar calendar notification tool for personal use on Windows so I understand the value of this. Calendar notifications via e…

Exactly - calendar notifications are "more important" than my frequent Clubhouse pings and having them in a more visible place is very helpful.

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

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Post by sam1r »

Awesome! Super stoked to try this. Couple of quick questions

-- was the name a play on superhuman the email service? if so, smooth move. I've been waiting 3 years for SuperHuman -- it appears it's just soma users + the clubhouse inner circle.

-- Was product hunt on your launch map? If so, to what extent on the radar.

I ask because I have one to many micro-apps for the M1 Macbook Air [or tested on such] -- I haven't launched yet, but I don't want to worry about playing games on growth hacks when my focus went on the product experience - not the slick tricks to quickly tip subscribing "users" to use something in the near future that may not even exist beyond a page. Or a PH "landing page".

I'm thinking, as of 2021, ... maybe HN is the most authentic way to go. [And of course, relevant reddit orgs that may find it useful with the consent of the respective subreddit admin].

Anyways, I sidetracked, but wanted to reaffirm -- Great, simple app - wish there were more of these! Looks great next to the Caffeine icon ;).

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

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Post by forgotmysn »

joshuakelly wrote: post #70
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…

The pro-sumer market is massive. It's really not that hard to deliver $10 worth of value to people whose time is very, very expensive. 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 )

ive had friends get into YC without an idea, just two guys looking to start a company
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