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Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by rangera »

Nilef wrote: post #146

Love the fact you can click Zoom etc links straight from the bar, thats super handy Would pay maybe $2-3/month, $10 just seems way too heavy right now. Maybe in future for your whole SaaS notifications piece and I can see the value if it essentially shows me all of the valuable things going on in my business and nothing superfulous , but sadly $10 I can't justify for just the calendar

I recommend Dato [1] for joining zoom meetings quickly from the menu bar. And it does all the Itsycal stuff too. It's a $6.99 one-time purchase.

[1] https://sindresorhus.com/dato

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by skillfulman2 »

shp0ngle wrote: post #143
mmacvicarprett wrote: post #140

This is ridiculous, just use Itsycal, it does all of that. Make sure to send a tip to the author! https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/

That doesn't support Google Calendar, from what I can gather edit: oh, it does. I never knew macOS native Calendar can sync to GCal. The more you know! OK this is quite useless then. Especially as it is an Electron app .

What do you have against electron?

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by yoyonamite »

jordandearsley wrote: post #94
ballenf wrote: post #72

I really hope you're willing to share some metrics on your findings in regard what you said somewhere below was this exploration of the level of pain you're addressing. I would think that churn is going to be high and one of your bigger challenges unless there's stickiness that I don't see. Are you worried about iStat Menus, Bartender, Alfred or Better Touch Tool adding your product as a feature? Is there a hard prob…

Yeah definitely! On average, our users use Superpowered 10 times per day. It's an ingrained part of their workflows. It's not only a single button to join a meeting, but it's also the ability to peek at your calendar without opening a tab. That might sound minor, but it's worth it for people who do it 10+ times a day. I wouldn't say we're worried about another tool building one-click join. Other tools exist that do.…

Is there a plan to address notification fatigue? It's less of an issue with calendars because calendar events tend to be important and synchronous. I'm worried that aggregating more data sources would add a lot of noise, but I can see a lot of value in being able to surface high priority items.

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by mushufasa »

jordandearsley wrote: post #123
mushufasa wrote: post #26

This does not seem helpful to me. Part of the value of opening the calendar is seeing the day plus the week, to recalibrate priorities based on upcoming meetings as well as immediate meetings. I have desktop notifications for immediate upcoming meetings. If I wanted, I could set my calendar to one-day view and only see today's meetings. But I don't do that because I don't want that.

Thanks for your feedback. We've found our customers use Google Calendar in two modes, read mode (80%) and write mode (20%). What you're mentioning falls into write mode. Gather a ton of context then make a number of changes. This is best done in Google Calendar. We focus on read mode. 80% of the time I open Google Calendar, it's to check what's next or to get into my next meeting. When that's done 10+ times a day, it…

I don't resonate with that dichotomy. What I am describing is not thinking about what new calendar events to add -- it is reading. I want to see the full context of the week in addition to immediate upcoming meetings. For example, as a manager, what else is happening on the team and do I need to be sending emails or slack messages during a meeting? Do I really need something important done tomorrow so I ask someone else to take the upcoming meeting instead of me, or vice versa?

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by Nextgrid »

patentatt wrote: post #125
petargyurov wrote: post #12

I'm sorry for being negative, but paying $10 per month for what is essentially a calendar widget is blowing my mind. The fact that this is even in YC and not just a side project is taking what's left of my brain and blowing it into the stratosphere. > We’ve only solved a small part of a bigger problem. The SaaS platforms we use for work don't work well together. It shouldn’t take cycling through ten different apps an…

It’s the YC model. Throw money at smart upper-class kids in good schools with some ambition. Once in a while, those kids make Dropbox or Airbnb, most of the time they make calendar widgets and leverage the experience to jump the line at some FAANG and start out their careers a decade ahead of their peers. It doesn’t make sense to you and I because it doesn’t make sense. It’s a lottery ticket for the investors. YC jus…

I understand Dropbox and Airbnb, but the long-term growth potential was clear to begin with - here, I just don't see it. It's a stupid calendar widget on a subscription.

I understand the potential for future expansion, but wouldn't it make sense for YC to wait until an MVP for said expansion is released before investing in it?

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by growt »

jordandearsley wrote: post #35
nvrspyx wrote: post #21

Let 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…

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Do you think you provide value in the range of Photoshop, Lightroom and 20GB online storage?

If not, please revise your pricing. I would gladly pay $10 for your app once (!). But surely not monthly.

Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by [deleted] »

austenallred wrote: post #134
tannedNerd wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely curious why not pay for fantastical? It has basically the same widget, plus an iPhone and Mac app for a 1/3 of the price? Not to be mean, but this seems like it only got traction because they got accepted to YC on another idea, otherwise would have been lost in the sea of dozens of other much more full featured or free calendar solutions?

It's been a while since I used fantastical but I didn't like it. I don't remember why to be honest.

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Re: Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

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Post by growt »

jordandearsley wrote: post #59
CSDude wrote: post #36

Trying to be constructive, but why would it even be a subscription model? Although it looks nice, I would think twice even spending 10$ once for it (mostly due to our currency's value). Also, since it's an Electron based widget, is the memory overhead considerable for just a calendar widget? Also, how does this YC Launch work? Does not seem related at all with your original idea (not sure if it's a deal-breaker thoug…

Thanks for the feedback. We'd like to fall into the category of other consumer SaaS products like Superhuman and Vimcal. > since it's an Electron based widget, is the memory overhead considerable for just a calendar widget? Great question. In my menu bar right now, the app's using ~150MB. > Also, how does this YC Launch work? Every startup in YC gets one YC Launch where they're featured on the front page for the day.…

On my macbook air M1 it is using close to 600MB. https://i.imgur.com/xRyQQOE.png

Might be somehow inflated by something I don't understand about apple silicon reporting memory usage. But it's concerning none the less. And I forgot to include the main process at 114 MB

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