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

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Superpowered

Hey HN,<p>I’m Jordan from Superpowered (<a href="http://superpowered.me/" rel="nofollow">http://superpowered.me/</a>), here with my co-founders Nikhil, Nick, and Ibrahim. We’re building a calendar app for the Mac menu bar.<p>A few months ago, we were students from the University of Waterloo. We started YC as a video lecture platform for professors but realized it was a horrible idea. We needed a new problem.<p>We settled on one we all faced during our remote internships. Our calendars became more important, yet meetings took ten clicks to join and were easy to miss.<p>So, we built a Mac app to bring the platform we check the most, Google Calendar, into the menu bar. We’ve made common actions, like joining Zoom meetings and checking what’s coming up, a click away.<p>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 and Chrome tabs to stay on top of everything.<p>We’re now looking to bring Slack and GitHub into a unified notification inbox in the menu bar. We want to better organize everything you use as we’ve done with Google Calendar.<p>For those who are curious, it’s built using React + Electron and designed to look as native as possible in the menu bar. Sensitive user data like calendar events don’t pass through our servers.<p>We’re new to the productivity space and still have a lot to learn, so we’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts.<p>Thanks in advance! Jordan<p>Note: We're still early on and are trying to figure out our pricing. We priced it towards the higher end to see if we're delivering enough value to our users.<p>Yes, we have keyboard shortcuts.

#Calendar And Scheduling #Calendar #Email Clients 6 social mentions

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Setapp

This looks really good! I'm a Meeter user so it's a real use case I have already spent time looking for solutions to.<p>I agree with other commenters though - I'd pay a one-time $10, but $10 per month seems unreasonably high. For perspective Meeter is free, and Spotify is $4 for a family of 4 (in my country).<p>Maybe it could be part of the bundle at <a href="https://setapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://setapp.com/</a> or similar? Or you could have a set-your-own-price monthly sub?

#Project Management #No Code #Development 9 social mentions

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Trailer

<a href="http://ptsochantaris.github.io/trailer/" rel="nofollow">http://ptsochantaris.github.io/trailer/</a> is wonderful to manage GitHub work and notification.

#Video Maker #Marketing Videos #Screen Recording 1 social mentions

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Dato

117 comments and Dato[0] isn't mentioned. Works great for me, I replaced the Fantastical menu bar with it 6 months ago. One-time cost.<p>[0] <a href="https://sindresorhus.com/dato" rel="nofollow">https://sindresorhus.com/dato</a>.

#Calendar #Email Clients #Productivity 22 social mentions

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Slapdash

I tried out Superpowered and while it's more polished than its competitors, it has a few downsides other commenters have already touched upon (pricing, memory use, and personally, the name hits too close to home to Superhuman.)<p>I've found that the best alternative is Slapdash. [0] Connect your calendar and then just hit cmd + J and boom -- Zoom is running. Many more connections are amazing as well, eg. Deep Dropbox and Drive integration.<p>[0] <a href="https://slapdash.com" rel="nofollow">https://slapdash.com</a>.

#Productivity #App Launcher #Mac 4 social mentions

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iStat Menus

Also, the pricing on this is pretty far off base (obnoxiously so). IMO a "fair price" for the value should be something like $10 for a site license, a price I've observed people pay countless times for similar tools[1] I don't get why this would be selling at such a premium, especially in the growth phase, and couldn't imagine how expensive this would get when they try to improve revenue/user in later iterations!<p>[1] <a href="https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/" rel="nofollow">https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/</a>.

#Monitoring Tools #Device Management #Log Management 53 social mentions