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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 waunbroderick »

It seems this application was designed to be at parity with other task calendar applications such as https://TickTick.com?

Is there a roadmap alongside this product that shows at what stage this product plans to seperate itself from the; ticktick’s, sunsamas, and motions of the world?

I feel when selecting apps like these now a day the real question is almost where do you want to put your money? Future support and development seems to be my main concern since, almost all of their features are mutually inclusive of one another despite a small few, esp with zapper integrations. Does anyone see something I’m not?

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

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Post by nmnm »

neil_s wrote: post #41

Since Timeful got shut down, I've been looking for a great solution for task time-blocking. This comment thread has so many great solutions for me to try, including Akiflow, thanks for working on this problem! I can't use it right now because our corporate Google Workspace accounts are locked from sharing, but looking forward to using it eventually.

Any way / certification we can get to be approved on your Google Workspace?

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

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Post by brosciencecode »

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…

In general, tech people are more likely to be early adopters. Also, it helps if the VCs you're targeting can log in as well. Same reason most mobile startups are iOS well before they're Android.

In general it goes (GitHub if you're a dev tool, Apple if you're mobile), Google, MSFT, other SSO, in that order.

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

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Post by baetylus »

nmnm wrote: post #50
Terretta wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Super obvious you aren't focusing on Enterprise by the radio silence on asks for Teams or Microsoft TODO integration. Since pandemic there are a ton of real companies making actual money and willing to pay for things (!!!) who are using M365. Something like 85% of companies, in fact. I so often see products starting with e.g. Google Docs integration or dev tools integration, and feel as though, okay, you're scratchin…

The Microsoft suite' integration is something we want to work on real soon. We didn't do it so far because our main problem was product-market fit, and increasing the addressable market was secondary. I agree with everything you said, and thanks for the suggestions!

"was product-market fit" -- Do you have it now? Looks useful.

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

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Post by nmnm »

waunbroderick wrote: post #51

It seems this application was designed to be at parity with other task calendar applications such as https://TickTick.com ? Is there a roadmap alongside this product that shows at what stage this product plans to seperate itself from the; ticktick’s, sunsamas, and motions of the world? I feel when selecting apps like these now a day the real question is almost where do you want to put your money? Future support and d…

We think the problem most knowledge workers are facing when planning their time is getting all the information from different sources into the same place and navigate/keep the workspace updated.

We think that our solution to productivity makes us quite different from the other tools in the market: Consolidation + Time Blocking. Happy to share more about this

Regarding our roadmap, we are still working on nailing the individual experience, before we look at how team member can interact with each others in a more productive way

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

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Post by nmnm »

amoghs wrote: post #45

After a while, we learned that what our users really wanted was to have everything in one place. This is so spot on! We're having similar learnings with eesel [1] too. Work is far too scattered across apps. Thanks for sharing your journey so far and congrats on the launch! [1] https://eesel.app

Thank you! I've always been a fan of your product, great design! Happy to connect ;)

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

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Post by grvdrm »

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.

Indeed, I've tried and failed many times to connect my corporate O365 to calendaring/scheduling/task mgmt. apps.

It is a major roadblock for many of us stuck to that product.

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