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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/
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 l…
> Was the name a play on superhuman the email service?
It wasn't inspired by Superhuman, but the name sounded strong and gave us the flexibility to change product direction. We got lucky since a lot of people now have the association of Super-x being a tool to make you faster or more efficient.
> Was product hunt on your launch map? If so, to what extent on the radar.
Yes it was, it was our first public launch four weeks ago: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/superpowered-2.
We launched the second we had something that provided a minimum amount of value to our users.
This does not seem helpful to me. Part of the value of opening the calendar is seeing the day plus the week, to recalibrate priorities based on upcoming meetings as well as immediate meetings. I have desktop notifications for immediate upcoming meetings. If I wanted, I could set my calendar to one-day view and only see today's meetings. But I don't do that because I don't want that.
What you're mentioning falls into write mode. Gather a ton of context then make a number of changes. This is best done in Google Calendar.
We focus on read mode. 80% of the time I open Google Calendar, it's to check what's next or to get into my next meeting. When that's done 10+ times a day, it adds up.
That's going to be different for different people. Some of our customers who are product managers open Superpowered 30 times a day. For them, it's worth it.
One of them was very similar to this but had an extra very interesting feature: when you clicked on it and it dropped down it filled the screen horizontally and maybe 25% vertically. On that space it showed a timeline of the upcoming events crawling closer and closer towards the right side.
The time scale might have been logarithmic - I can't remember - but I remember it motivating me.
Agree with the others on pricing: I now have a general aversion against subscriptions and $10 a month is way too much (unless you offer perpetual license after 6 or 12 months or something, and even then it is expensive..)
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 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…
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.
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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.)
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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…
I spend my time in fullscreen apps. The menubar is never visible.