Product is not for me (private Google calendar covers 7 people and one room well enough), but just wanted to say that your site and app design is really nice. Well done. One of the cleanest-looking I've seen on here in a long time.
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#12This looks amazing. Hopefully my boss bites because it looks like it will solve a lot of headaches.
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#13This looks like something that would have been on Silicon Valley (TV Show)...
It's not a new concept, there are modern offices that use similar systems already. They're great, and just confirms the market for this product.
I've seen https://eventboard.io/ in the past, which is basically the same exact kind of product. Similar pricing too.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a new concept, there are modern offices that use similar systems already. They're great, and just confirms the market for this product.
I've seen https://eventboard.io/ in the past, which is basically the same exact kind of product. Similar pricing too.
Full disclosure: I work for Robin. :)
Eventboard is one of a bunch that do tablet and analytics. They take a different approach on a few things, we build heavily for mobile and employee-facing apps and not just facilities managers.
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#15Product is not for me (private Google calendar covers 7 people and one room well enough), but just wanted to say that your site and app design is really nice. Well done. One of the cleanest-looking I've seen on here in a long time.
Thanks! Our design and product development teams put a lot of time and effort into it. Its important to us.
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#16Seems expensive. Can do the same thing with a shared resource in google calendar. https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-ca...
I saw your comment and wondered "how expensive could it really be?" - the pricing is just too much. I ran it by our IT team (we're a prime candidate for using a product like this) and they shot it down immediately on price. 15 rooms for $3k/year?
If you have over 5 conference rooms, you can afford $3k/year.
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#17This looks like something that would have been on Silicon Valley (TV Show)...
How is that?
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#18Looks gorgeous but I wonder how big a deal power is? I suspect many rooms won't have power nearby and recharging every 1-3 days sounds dreary.
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#19Looks gorgeous but I wonder how big a deal power is? I suspect many rooms won't have power nearby and recharging every 1-3 days sounds dreary.
It's generally not a dealbreaker for most offices. With external battery packs you can get extra days, or you could just get a free standing mount that moves closer to a nearby outlet. Most commercial buildings require power every 8 feet or so on walls, so you're rarely in a power desert.
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#20I always have trouble with pricing models like this... how is it 2.5X as expensive to have 3x as many "bookable rooms"? Once you write the software, it's trivial to add more "bookable rooms". Why do you charge so much more for the difference, which really just amounts to a little extra disk space/CPU (not that this is an intensive application to run in either regard anyway).
I guess the reason our industry has gone this way is simply because we know we can get more money from larger companies. That's why you always see these arbitrary limits that correspond in no way whatsoever to the actual cost or value of the product being sold.