A great free alternative in the widget-only space on macOS is Next Meeting [0]. Works wonders if you want just the menubar overview, not switch your full calendar app out for something else.
Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
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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 .
What do you have against electron?
Electron apps don’t really look or work right on a Mac.
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#163If you’re going to charge me $10 a month at least have some class and build it with Cocoa
Indeed. An Electron app sitting there in the menu bar using 500Mb of memory is just a waste. Sums up modern development unfortunately.
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#164Let 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…
Being mac-only does not really affect the pricing. Most mac users only use mac, and so for them it wouldn't be worth more if it was also available for PC. HAving said that, the price is ridiculous.
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Thanks for the feedback. We'd like to fall into the category of other consumer SaaS products like Superhuman and Vimcal. > since it's an Electron based widget, is the memory overhead considerable for just a calendar widget? Great question. In my menu bar right now, the app's using ~150MB. > Also, how does this YC Launch work? Every startup in YC gets one YC Launch where they're featured on the front page for the day.…
150MB might not seem like much, but it really is a lot. iStat Menus, which is tracking a lot more data across my system to render its multiple graphs is using ~85MB total. Bearing in mind that many users are going to have 5 things like this in their menubar, they can't all use this amount.
Oh it does seem a lot.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
What do you have against electron?
They have a big CPU and RAM usage.
...which is not an issue on M1 macs, so far, but that's for now.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
What do you have against electron?
I for one am okay with the idea of spawning an entire headless browser for something that uses a full window - slack, spotify, etc. but for drawing a toolbar? That's a bit much.
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#168I'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
The difference is that DropBox didn't have lots of free and better competitors.
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#169Here is my linux version that probably not does exactly the same set of features and not as pretty but good enough for me (show me the next meeting and quickly join it with one click) :
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#170Great product, works well, but can't see the need for this to be a monthly cost. Should be a one time purchase
You're not the first to comment on this! Consumer SaaS is still growing. We'd like to fall into the category of apps like Superhuman, Vimcal, and Fantastical.
Consumer SaaS may be growing, but that doesn't mean you are a natural fit. Also, subscription fatigue is growing even faster.