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by wmab 2120 days ago
Congrats on the launch, it's great to see the space develop as well as more applications being designed for specific uses, I can see Muse fitting in with my other iPad habits (such as Fresco for wire design), and targeting a specific user for their niche.

The price tag certainly has HN crawling, clearly without downloading and seeing how simple it is to use with only an email. Most prosumer companies play down the cost, and highlight the free trial. Given the "power user" nature of getting up to speed with Muse (video + 9 "tasks" to complete) it's worth trying to remove all friction from installs since you'll get churn from a subset even before prompting them about the price, due to the commitment someone needs to make with new habit forming and learning.

Will you be adding collaboration into the app? With remote teams increasing I can see this helping share ideas and promote collaboration outside of Google Docs/Notion/Figma etc.

Did you dog food the development? I imagine designing and building the app would have required a lot of deep thinking!

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Thanks, and yes collaboration is on the roadmap. Because thinking is first and foremost a private activity, we wanted to get the single-user experience right as a foundation.

Heavy dogfooding, yes! I use Muse for absolutely everything in designing, planning, and thinking about strategy for our company and product. Can't imagine my life without it after a year of using the product.

Awesome. Keep it up and I look forward to seeing the feature roll out over the coming months!
My thought on the pricing as well. Every drug user knows that you never talk about price because the "first hits are free".