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Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by jedberg »

jtthe13 wrote: post #8

We use office365 for calendaring. The onboarding flow stops at "connect your Primary Google Calendar Account". I understand one has to start somewhere, but it still boggles my mind why so many B2B startups treat Office365 as second order of priority. Does it come from genuine market research on the addressable market, or tech myopia of Google apps usage in the startup ecosystem? Guess we'll stick with Sunsama for the…

I think a lot of that comes from the fact that O365 are more corporate users. And oftentimes they are restricted from connecting their calendar to 3rd parties due to corporate policy.

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by sfavaro »

jedberg wrote: post #21
jtthe13 wrote: post #8

We use office365 for calendaring. The onboarding flow stops at "connect your Primary Google Calendar Account". I understand one has to start somewhere, but it still boggles my mind why so many B2B startups treat Office365 as second order of priority. Does it come from genuine market research on the addressable market, or tech myopia of Google apps usage in the startup ecosystem? Guess we'll stick with Sunsama for the…

I think a lot of that comes from the fact that O365 are more corporate users. And oftentimes they are restricted from connecting their calendar to 3rd parties due to corporate policy.

Yes, this is also part of the reasons why we started with the Google platform and not Office365.

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by sharemywin »

nmnm wrote: post #11
ISL wrote: post #9

Is Jira integration planned? (I didn't see it on the list 'o sources above)

It is! https://product.akiflow.com/features-and-improvements-reques... We are getting more and more requests for developers' tools! In the meantime, you can already connect Jira via Zapier. We already created some templates for you to use and you can find them in Settings > Integrations > Add via Zapier or use these links: https://zapier.com/apps/jira/integrations/akiflow https://zapier.com/apps/jira-software/integra…

isn't zapier like a million dollar a month?

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by nmnm »

sharemywin wrote: post #23
nmnm wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is! https://product.akiflow.com/features-and-improvements-reques... We are getting more and more requests for developers' tools! In the meantime, you can already connect Jira via Zapier. We already created some templates for you to use and you can find them in Settings > Integrations > Add via Zapier or use these links: https://zapier.com/apps/jira/integrations/akiflow https://zapier.com/apps/jira-software/integra…

isn't zapier like a million dollar a month?

They should have a free tier that you can use up to 100 tasks/mo. We can't wait to have the native integration ready!

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by nmnm »

sharemywin wrote: post #24

Curious what direction you plan on going? Business Teams planner: assign tasks to others, sync with other task tracking apps or Family planner: shopping lists, financial planner etc. or continue on a personal planner route

We want to keep building the best experience for personal use. For example, more integration, improving time blocking features etc... We are also doing customer interviews to investigate how we can help teams' interacting better. If you are currently working in a team, we'd love to have a call with you to understand how we could improve!

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by sfavaro »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #25

> Once we understood that, it was obvious that we should pivot to building that one tool: a tasks+calendars app focused on making people faster. What is your opinion of this XKCD? https://xkcd.com/927/

That's one of my favourites ;)

Currently, we don't believe that any of the apps in this space is clearly taking over the competition, and so we think that there is still the opportunity of finding the right way of doing it.

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by hyperupcall »

This tool looks quite similar to Amie.so - which I use in conjunction with Todoist - do you have any major differentiating features? It seems like mainly there are more integrations

It seems unfortunate that the free plan is really just a 7 day trial, unless I misunderstood

Re: Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together

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Post by warpech »

What a timing! I just found information about Akiflow on a blog[1] and decided to give it a try. I had no idea that you've officially launched today!

I used to use an app called Acapela[2] for a while, but they went out of business.

I am mostly interested in Slack integration and it seems that you nailed it. Pricing for your product ($15) is double than Slack itself ($7.25), but I will be happy to pay the price if it solves my problem of scheduling work that falls in through Slack.

[1] https://brandonkboswell.com/blog/Optimizing-the-iPhone-for-p...

[2] https://acapela.com/

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