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by arcturus17 1804 days ago
Are you questioning whether the total addressable market for this is 3 million 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?
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handrous 1804 days ago
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.

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TomNguy 1804 days ago
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.

Can't wait to see how 2022 will look like though!

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handrous 1804 days ago
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.
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TomNguy 1804 days ago
No worry, didn't take it as an aggressive attack :)

Thanks for all the good vibes and feedback though!

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pm90 1804 days ago
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.
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TomNguy 1804 days ago
UX and engagement is everything in our case.

The value brought by the product is only based on the Visibility provided by people and Usage/Habits they have with it.

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