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by neerajdotname2 1060 days ago
I'm part of the team that built neetoCal. Here is my take.

I 100% agree that the switching cost from Calendly is pretty low. There is very little stickiness. I agree that Google/MS adding this feature to their calendar will wipe out a huge portion of the market.

If we take this analogy that Google/MS can add feature X then it would be hard to build anything new. They are gaints and they can build anything.

However being a really big company also means that they might not be able to pay attention to the requirements of individuals. They needs to be in the game where millions of folks are using it.

You can see that in google form. It's simple and it works. Still typeform, jotform and neetoForm are thriving. That's because folks want more than what google form is offering currently.

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Have you considered flat pricing for lifetime access? You can easily calculate the likely value a subscriber is going to provide over lifetime with discounted cashflows. Then you can ask for that money upfront. Do you think that will be a differentiator?
At this stage of the business we don't think we can do a good job of calculating the life time value of a customer. So currently we are not considering lifetime access.