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Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by volkk »

some_thoughts wrote: post #20

This looks really clean, congrats! But also from my end, this leaves me pretty unmotivated. I've been working on an mvp to launch my own startup the past month, and today I find out it already exists in your product.

as a new manager, had the same exact idea and found a few companies in this space[0][1] (and now this one too)

ultimately decided there's just too many competitors. my only gripe with all of these is that they're heavily subscription based/pay to use monthly, etc. i want something more personal that i can just purchase for like $10-20 (more like an app on my mac that i can just use forever)

my other gripe is that i don't want to have to onboard my entire team onto it. i want to only use it myself as like a reference guide for the health gauge of my team. i dont need them all inputting their OKRs into these products

[0] https://www.15five.com/

[1] https://www.small-improvements.com/

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by whymauri »

ushakov wrote: post #14

YC seems to have a crush on meeting-focused products this year - Hera: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771091 - Superpowered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318

I mean, there was a pandemic. Seems like a good time to build technological solutions for management-oriented use cases.

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by jasonvorhe »

Looked at the screenshots of the Android app and from the looks of it it's just another React native app that looks completely non-native and weird. Hamburger menu, three dot menu, tabs that look like iOS and then there's this odd checkmark in the upper right corner. No traces of material design, no floating action button, icons that would fit a quiz game. I'm not going to use this.

Also: Why would I want another tool to keep track of tasks? I can assign tasks via $issuetracker, Google Docs, gtmhub and probably a couple of other tools my employer is using.

I'll see how far a Google Doc per direct report will carry me.

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by nduncan_hmc »

Hi Brennan, I'm the co-founder of a similar startup (WorkPatterns) and it's great to see another startup in this space pop up on HN! The idea of investing in a library of goal templates is really smart, there's alot of knowledge contained within these templates about how to do your job. One of the issues we've had with our own goals feature is that it takes a decent amount of mental energy to actually come up with the goals and this looks like a great solution to that.

It looks like you guys have some ML in the product already so have you ever thought about using it to generate suggestions for writing goals? We've been doing this to generate suggestions for phrasing constructive feedback, and the suggestions are surprisingly good.

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by akcreek »

Curious what the thinking is with the steep volume discounts? It is cheaper to have 251 users than it is to have any number between 41 and 250.

You run into some weird pricing this way. For example, 250 users on the pro plan is $1,000/mo while 251 is $220.88.

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by brennanm »

aleruperti wrote: post #36

Literally used your product this afternoon in a meeting with my team -- overall had a great experience!

Amazing. Would love as much feedback as you can muster if you want to send it my way: brennan @ hypercontext.com

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by brennanm »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #33

Looked at the screenshots of the Android app and from the looks of it it's just another React native app that looks completely non-native and weird. Hamburger menu, three dot menu, tabs that look like iOS and then there's this odd checkmark in the upper right corner. No traces of material design, no floating action button, icons that would fit a quiz game. I'm not going to use this. Also: Why would I want another too…

All good man. Enjoy google docs

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by brennanm »

akcreek wrote: post #35

Curious what the thinking is with the steep volume discounts? It is cheaper to have 251 users than it is to have any number between 41 and 250. You run into some weird pricing this way. For example, 250 users on the pro plan is $1,000/mo while 251 is $220.88.

It's volume pricing for users above that threashold, if that makes sense.

So, the first 100 users are $5.60/u/m or $560/m, if annual (to keep numbers consistent).

101 users would be $564/m as only the 101st user would be $4/m on the annual plan.

We stole this model from jira.

Re: Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app

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Post by brennanm »

nduncan_hmc wrote: post #34

Hi Brennan, I'm the co-founder of a similar startup (WorkPatterns) and it's great to see another startup in this space pop up on HN! The idea of investing in a library of goal templates is really smart, there's alot of knowledge contained within these templates about how to do your job. One of the issues we've had with our own goals feature is that it takes a decent amount of mental energy to actually come up with th…

Noah! Thanks for commenting.

Re - ML on feedback: Customers/users haven't taken us there, yet, anyways.

Would love to jam more, if you're open to it? brennan at hypercontext.com?

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