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.
God, I'm so bad at judging business ideas. I read the post and was like "how is this a product of any kind?" and here in the comments it's seen as plausibly a billion-dollar company.
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.
We've been told many times that we were just a feature. Didn't stopped us from building our product, get 1000+ companies onboard and moving closer to profitability everyday!
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.
Oh, sorry, I really didn't mean that as a passive-aggressive attack on your idea. I'm so often-wrong about what is and isn't viable that clearly I'm the one with a problem, and I sincerely wish you good fortune.
Even if products exist that try to solve the same problem, the UX is unlikely to be exactly the same. Tools like this one are meant to be engaging; the backend is maybe not that unique or interesting.
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.
Because we want that big vison to become true where there's a dedicated tool for hybrid teams that's employee-first. Improving Social Relationships between people in a company is no easy thing! Hopefully and with our team's hard work it'll be a big thing
Is that really outside of the realm of possibility if they become absolute leaders in this space and entrench themselves in a quasi-monopoly?