Looks like a cute app, but why are you taking VC money? By my napkin math, for this to be a billion dollar company, you need at least 3 million paying MAU.
Is that really outside of the realm of possibility if they become absolute leaders in this space and entrench themselves in a quasi-monopoly?
Maybe I should reconsider some of my ideas that end up at "oh, wait, that's just a shared calendar, and those exist for free with no more set-up than my idea would require, and I can't even be bothered to use that to solve this problem, so why would anyone pay for it" or "oh, but that's just a blog with an RSS feed, and those exist for free [et c.]", or "that's just a mailing list, but now you need to log in to something else to use it, which makes it worse than a mailing list", and so on.
Or all the times people tell me their brilliant idea for "an app" to serve some particular market they have insight into (say, it's their job), that'll make "a ton of money" and I search the store and there are 20 solutions for exactly what they want, that they just haven't bothered to even look for, let alone considered paying money for. Maybe those are still good ideas, somehow.
The market looks simple, as the solution, but the problem is huge. You can have 3 days of remote per day, meaning you can not see one of your teammate for a lifetime if you don't coordinate.
We're going to see each other less but we don't want to stop seeing each other. The creativity and brainstorming sessions can't happen through zooms calls, most people need to do it in person.
Can't wait to see how 2022 will look like though!
Thanks for all the good vibes and feedback though!
The value brought by the product is only based on the Visibility provided by people and Usage/Habits they have with it.
I heard money is cheap and abundant, so people take it. I can relate, it gives you confidence. And let’s be honest, without a “big vision” and VC money this is just a $2k MRR business.
We want to build the hybrid tool that's improving Culture and Socialization through companies, not just a quick feature like Slack statuses