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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 grvdrm »

sfavaro wrote: post #19
insomniacity wrote: post #17

I look at things like this and cry because I know I'll never see it inside the large corporates I tend to work in. I'd pay for it myself, but I wouldn't be able to integrate with anything - eg our O365 tenant will be fully locked down.

We are fully aware that this is a problem in large corporates. Is there some kind of certification required by your company that would help ease the process?

Sometimes, yes.

Or perhaps there is something like a legacy IT team that has to review every app that wants to connect to the internal O365 tenant (or similar). That process sometimes takes forever and the resulting friction grinds my motivation to keep exploring to near-zero.

I'm coming from a start-up in the cybersecurity space that uses O365 but is overall reluctant to link other products to O365. So, we can instead use whatever lives within Microsoft's garden of products available in Teams (for example) but not link most 3rd-party apps like this one.

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

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Post by nmnm »

baetylus wrote: post #54
nmnm wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Almost there. We have good retention on specific cohorts and we are working on the 3 main reasons for churn

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

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Post by andirk »

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…

Is it like this Chandler software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)?

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

The first thing I look for in any productivity tool is keyboard shortcuts.

I see a lot of mouse clicking and dragging in the demo video. A truly productivity-focused tool should be heavily keyboard-shortcut based. Just my opinion :) Or are there Kb shortcuts that I am missing?

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

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Post by nmnm »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #64

The first thing I look for in any productivity tool is keyboard shortcuts. I see a lot of mouse clicking and dragging in the demo video. A truly productivity-focused tool should be heavily keyboard-shortcut based. Just my opinion :) Or are there Kb shortcuts that I am missing?

We actually have a lot of them and a command bar, we had to be more 'visual' in the demo video :D

-> https://www.notion.so/akiflow/Keyboard-Shortcuts-d523d9377fc...

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Post by ron0c »

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!

O365 was the first thing I was looking for. The university I work for is heavily invested in O365 calendaring and Tasks, but for myself personally I use a combination of other services. If this could bring them all together for my wife and I to have a single pane of glass I'd be in.

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

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Post by pertique »

n3t wrote: post #67
a9h74j wrote: post #48

Not to be confused with Ankiflow , where you bring your repetitive tasks together with timed repetition.

Sounds interesting. What are you referring to?

Anki is a flashcard program that claims to help learn/memorize information using spaced repetition. I believe the previous comment is a joke based on the similarity of the names of the two pieces of software [Aki(flow)/Anki] and the fact that both of them deal with repetition.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

nmnm wrote: post #65
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #64

The first thing I look for in any productivity tool is keyboard shortcuts. I see a lot of mouse clicking and dragging in the demo video. A truly productivity-focused tool should be heavily keyboard-shortcut based. Just my opinion :) Or are there Kb shortcuts that I am missing?

We actually have a lot of them and a command bar, we had to be more 'visual' in the demo video :D -> https://www.notion.so/akiflow/Keyboard-Shortcuts-d523d9377fc...

Nice to know, thanks!

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

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Post by rayiner »

Why can’t this be done in a native plugin? For one thing, who uses gmail for real work? For another, the idea of paying for yet another web app that Hoovers my data into the cloud isn’t appealing. Sunsama (another YC alum) already does all that.
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