> $10/mo for a mac exclusive calendar widget
... it's always hard to make a joke when someone already gave out the punchline.
Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
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#142“No more looking for the Google calendar tab in Chrome.”
Gustaf Alströmer
Said nobody ever!
It is literally three clicks away...
1. New Tab 2. Click dotted square 3. Click cal button
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#143This is ridiculous, just use Itsycal, it does all of that. Make sure to send a tip to the author! https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
That doesn't support Google Calendar, from what I can gather
edit: oh, it does. I never knew macOS native Calendar can sync to GCal. The more you know!
OK this is quite useless then. Especially as it is an Electron app.
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#144This is such a nonsense. People (VCs) pay money for this and you get to call this a startup? This feels more like investment from YC to tick the diversity checkbox than anything else.
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#145This is ridiculous, just use Itsycal, it does all of that. Make sure to send a tip to the author! https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
That doesn't support Google Calendar, from what I can gather edit: oh, it does. I never knew macOS native Calendar can sync to GCal. The more you know! OK this is quite useless then. Especially as it is an Electron app .
It uses the OS-level calendar account integration, so it supports whatever MacOS does, including Google Calendar - that's functionality I actually use, on a daily basis, right now.
That said, Itsycal doesn't seem to play well with meeting links - for example, I've never been able to click a Webex link from the Itsycal UI and have the meeting actually open; I think it's not passing the URL exactly, or something, but I always have to visit the Calendar app and click the link from there. Not sure if Zoom has the same trouble in Itsycal, but I can definitely see a potential win in something that does better with meeting integrations.
I'm still sticking with Itsycal at least for now; meeting link issues aside, it works really well for me and I'd rather wait for a real killer feature to switch. That aside, congrats and best of luck to the Superpowered team!
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#146Love the fact you can click Zoom etc links straight from the bar, thats super handy
Would pay maybe $2-3/month, $10 just seems way too heavy right now. Maybe in future for your whole SaaS notifications piece and I can see the value if it essentially shows me all of the valuable things going on in my business and nothing superfulous , but sadly $10 I can't justify for just the calendar
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a good point. There's definitely ways to optimize for less memory usage. We've been prioritizing feature development, but plan to focus on this before we start scaling.
This should be a very high priority issue. The more features you'll add, the harder it'll be to perform any heavy optimizations without rewriting major parts. ~150MB is a huge memory footprint for something that just sits in my menubar idle. Not all Macs have >16GBs of RAM (and even if they did, this is pretty wasteful). I'm also concerned about the battery life. I'm pretty sure you'll eventually reach a point where…
I don’t think it should be very high priority for them.
They’re a startup, they need to focus on the fastest and most effective way to create value for their users, today. No point optimising the product if the company dies before it starts slowing down.
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#148Let 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…
> I understand for pricing purposes we're on the higher end, as mentioned in the note, this is intentional to validate we provide enough value
What exactly do you mean by "validate we provide enough value"?
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#149It's a shame that is only for Mac :( Any plans for Windows(/Linux)?
GNOME's defaults do this for you. Can't speak for KDE or Windows
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#150I didn't know Aprils Fools was moved 3 weeks in advance.