> It shouldn’t take cycling through ten different apps and Chrome tabs to stay on top of everything.
Since it's mac-only - have you tried command+space to get to the calendar?
Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
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#192This is ridiculous, just use Itsycal, it does all of that. Make sure to send a tip to the author! https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
itsycal FTW!
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#193Let 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.
My company uses Google for calendar but I still use the native Apple Calendar app on both macOS and iOS. Am I missing something groundbreaking that requires using GCal natively?
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#194I've been using Superpowered for the past 2 weeks and can honestly say the experience is great. I don't live in the browser and the Mac calendar app is pretty awful, so this has been a definitely workflow improvement for me. I probably click on it 10-20x per day.
That said, when my trial expired today I elected to not upgrade in no small part to the insane memory usage.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 d…
Can you elaborate on mapping a keystroke to opening a meeting link? Outside of google cal + google meet calendar apps don’t typically recognize meeting links as something to promote.
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#196Electron?
So, you’re going to build a complete copy of Chrome into my menu bar?
Uh, no thanks.
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#197Meeter already does this
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#198Meeter already does exactly this, no subscription
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#199There'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…
> validate that we were delivering enough value to our users
This seems like an odd and ineffective way to validate that. It seems more likely that you will just mix in price insensitive users who aren’t making conscious decisions.
Would it be better to validate value by seeing usage levels, referrals, and drop offs?
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#200Let 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 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.
Huh? I’m using the native calendar app all the time since I got my first macbook 7 years ago. I was using google calendar before and it was seamlessly migrated. I am using multiple google accounts and also the icloud account for calendars, never had a problem. It syncs back to google and between different devices, it works with inviting other people and so on.
The only feature that google calendar UI does better is help to find a scheduled time. But I always agree for a time before creating a calendar event, so that’s not something I’d miss. Also, it generates the google meet link, which is again useless since I use zoom or whereby. But even if I wanted that, I’d either have to use the google calendar UI or an app that replicates this feature.
What I nice about the native macos calendar app is that it does natural language parsing, for example, “Meet with X on Monday at 12” will create “Meet with X” event and set the date to the closest Monday, the time to 12:00 and duration to a default 1h. It’s basically like you’re making a note, but it becomes a calendar event.