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Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#51

Post by sanedigital »

maomorales wrote: post #49
finkin1 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi - this looks like a service that would be valuable to my remote team. I'm interested to know the pricing before signing up. I'm curious what the reasoning is behind hiding the pricing behind a signup process.

We landed at this pricing: $3/mo per user (in a basic plan) and $5/mo per user in a standard plan that includes more security features, anonymous check-ins, culture/team values for kudos, API/webhooks, and some other details. The reasoning behind hiding pricing: we've been running a/b tests for different pricing setups inside our web app. We had to hide it from the public page because of a technical limitation in our…

Super interested in your product as an alternative to GeekBot. But putting a "Pricing" page in your navigation and then not having pricing on that page is pretty aggravating.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#52

Post by maomorales »

sanedigital wrote: post #51
maomorales wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We landed at this pricing: $3/mo per user (in a basic plan) and $5/mo per user in a standard plan that includes more security features, anonymous check-ins, culture/team values for kudos, API/webhooks, and some other details. The reasoning behind hiding pricing: we've been running a/b tests for different pricing setups inside our web app. We had to hide it from the public page because of a technical limitation in our…

Super interested in your product as an alternative to GeekBot. But putting a "Pricing" page in your navigation and then not having pricing on that page is pretty aggravating.

I appreciate your feedback. We're moving fast here to solve that confusion, and it's done: https://www.dailybot.com/pricing

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#53

Post by maomorales »

vladsanchez wrote: post #50
maomorales wrote: post #4

Hi HN — we’re Mauricio and Sergio from DailyBot ( https://www.dailybot.com ). We provide tools for async work and team collaboration. It's currently a chatbot with support for Slack, MS Teams, G Chat, and Discord and others coming soon. Here's a 2-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZnGl4c-9g We've been working in distributed teams for over 6 years and even for us, async work was still challenging. We fac…

@maomorales Thanks and congrats on a great product! I've been using DailyBot for a long time now for daily standups and it's the best way to keep everyone accountable and best way to end stupid and unnecessary meetings. Mil Gracias! Wish you continued success.

Oh, thanks! I shared this comment with my team - they're the ones behind what we're building. I'm glad to see you're finding value in what we're doing. Stay tuned for what's coming next! And feel free to send me any ideas or feedback directly, my email: mauricioatdailybotdotcom

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#54

Post by ishbaid »

pionar wrote: post #20
ishbaid wrote: post #5

I'm Ish, the founder of Virtually https://www.tryvirtually.com/calendar . We're the easiest way to manage Zoom events for private communities. Managing virtual events for more than a few people is a pain. Either you paste emails from spreadsheets into Google calendar or you rely on internal mailing lists, which get out of date and make calendar invites hard. If you want to do events for subgroups, or send out reminde…

Are you worried about Zoom basically taking your idea and baking into their product? Also, what does this have to do with Zoom specifically? Is it just the attendance tracking?

There's always risk of a big company doing this, but in general, no. We're not worried.

Most startups die by suicide, not homicide.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#55

Post by Anahi2016 »

sergiomattei wrote: post #33
Anahi2016 wrote: post #6

We are Ana and Luis, the founders of Glitzi ( https://glitzi.com.mx/ ). We provide certified beauty and spa services, same day and delivered at home, in Latin America. In Latam, lack of regulations and licencing means that people struggle to access quality beauty and wellness services. Beauty salons and spas also offer very poor working conditions to professionals, who live mostly off tips or low commissions. As a La…

Wow, this is a very real problem and I'm glad to see it addressed. Every Friday my Abuela calls a stranger for manicure/pedicure they've known for years that she heard about from another friend, from another friend... Word of mouth, like most things in LatAm. They're not certified or anything, but they do a decent job. I've always wondered about their background because they seem to hang out for too long at the house…

Hi Sergio! Exactly what you are describing is what we want to solve: we want you to be confident that you will get a standard quality service when you book with Glitzi. Now, we have learned that good professionals (trained and using good quality products) invest in their work & tools, therefore, they expect a higher pay than a cheap non-quality service (and that makes sense!). So our prices are not cheap but are not crazy expensive (also consider that these services are at-home, the professionals have to travel to your house). Our haircuts for men are $18 dollars. However, we think that as Glitzi grows (we have more bookings), we will be able to reduce prices as professionals will earn the same or more but will have more appointments per day.

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#56

Post by ishbaid »

asdff wrote: post #45
rexreed wrote: post #15

I'm seeing a trend of apps that help to (micro)manage distributed / remote workforces. Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events, Dailybot has automated standups that basically keeps tabs on employee work and productivity. I'm curious to hear from the founders as to what motivated the creation of the apps and whether WFH plays a significant part in the value proposition. Would you need either ap…

>Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events Wow, back to high school. They don't track attendance in undergrad even. Why do companies need this sort of information? If the person is important to the meeting, them being a no show will be pretty evident. If they are so irrelevant to the meeting that they could just dip out and no one would be the wiser, why are they even wasting their time in the z…

We're really building for bootcamps and online schools who need attendance data to know who's on track to finishing the program and who's at risk for falling.

it's also useful to communities who want to learn how to better engage members and which types of zoom events drive the most engagement

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#57

Post by asdff »

ishbaid wrote: post #56
asdff wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events Wow, back to high school. They don't track attendance in undergrad even. Why do companies need this sort of information? If the person is important to the meeting, them being a no show will be pretty evident. If they are so irrelevant to the meeting that they could just dip out and no one would be the wiser, why are they even wasting their time in the z…

We're really building for bootcamps and online schools who need attendance data to know who's on track to finishing the program and who's at risk for falling. it's also useful to communities who want to learn how to better engage members and which types of zoom events drive the most engagement

I don't understand why anything needs to be built here. Zoom already lets you export this data per meeting.

https://www.eduhk.hk/ocio/content/faq-how-retrieve-attendanc...

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#58

Post by sophialiuliuliu »

Anahi2016 wrote: post #6

We are Ana and Luis, the founders of Glitzi ( https://glitzi.com.mx/ ). We provide certified beauty and spa services, same day and delivered at home, in Latin America. In Latam, lack of regulations and licencing means that people struggle to access quality beauty and wellness services. Beauty salons and spas also offer very poor working conditions to professionals, who live mostly off tips or low commissions. As a La…

Well except where thee clientes are, you also have to where the least competition is right? So another approach to look at this is the door dash way, where is the real big market without much competition!

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#59

Post by sergiomattei »

Anahi2016 wrote: post #55
sergiomattei wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, this is a very real problem and I'm glad to see it addressed. Every Friday my Abuela calls a stranger for manicure/pedicure they've known for years that she heard about from another friend, from another friend... Word of mouth, like most things in LatAm. They're not certified or anything, but they do a decent job. I've always wondered about their background because they seem to hang out for too long at the house…

Hi Sergio! Exactly what you are describing is what we want to solve: we want you to be confident that you will get a standard quality service when you book with Glitzi. Now, we have learned that good professionals (trained and using good quality products) invest in their work & tools, therefore, they expect a higher pay than a cheap non-quality service (and that makes sense!). So our prices are not cheap but are not…

18 dollars sounds very reasonable!

Down here in Puerto Rico a mid-range haircut is minimum $20. A low-tier, make-do barber shop cut is easily got at $10. A higher end cut can go up to $40.

$18 sounds like a great price, especially for a vetted professional. Rooting for you folks, let me know when the Puerto Rico beta opens ;)

Re: Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty

#60

Post by midev »

asdff wrote: post #45
rexreed wrote: post #15

I'm seeing a trend of apps that help to (micro)manage distributed / remote workforces. Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events, Dailybot has automated standups that basically keeps tabs on employee work and productivity. I'm curious to hear from the founders as to what motivated the creation of the apps and whether WFH plays a significant part in the value proposition. Would you need either ap…

>Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events Wow, back to high school. They don't track attendance in undergrad even. Why do companies need this sort of information? If the person is important to the meeting, them being a no show will be pretty evident. If they are so irrelevant to the meeting that they could just dip out and no one would be the wiser, why are they even wasting their time in the z…

> If the person is important to the meeting, them being a no show will be pretty evident. If they are so irrelevant to the meeting that they could just dip out and no one would be the wiser, why are they even wasting their time in the zoom meeting to begin with?

Nothing you said precludes tracking the information. Yeah, I've missed meetings and it's been evident. But it's ok, because we have flexibility and the company knows it's rare.

If I miss every meeting, that's a concern.

> It also wouldn't be hard to write a little script that automatically connects you to zoom meetings that are coming up

You'd be the employee we're trying to get rid of. If you're lying about participation in things, saying you attended meetings when you didn't, I'd fire you.

You are literally proving why such a need exists.

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