We have a small team starter plan that's $5 total for your first 5 users.
Also, we'll only charge you for additional users if you a) invite them and b) they sign in and become active.
So definitely can stay at $5/m and use it as a personal tool for as long as you want to. It's on the product to convince you your life can be significantly easier through inviting people, not me
You're doing gods works here. Thanks so much. Please do ask for a reset when you get the chance and/or email me directly brennan at hypercontext.com would love more feedback like this
I 100% hear you here. Meetings are inherently pretty viral, so stopping the multiplayer is actually quite hard. We've had to manage it in app fairly deliberately as user growth can happen too quickly and customers can get frustrated.
The main value for experienced managers is a) the ability to offload the mental energy of remembering to bring something up in a meeting, b) the sheer volume of direct reports that need to becared for, and for organizers c) some of the best practice busy work that accumulates value over time (eg: sending notes after the meeting). Actually have quite a few CEOs who have adopted
My only nit is we don't want to mediate a human interaction in app. Instead we want to encourage human interaction by removing as much of the the non-human interaction as we can.
Job Specs:
- Manage 10 people
- Code fixes in between meetings
- Learn new technical concepts after hours
- Management books/podcasts while you sleep
- Nobel prize on PTO
For the folks who don't want to click-> "[Peter Principle] observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their 'maximum level of incompetence': employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another."
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I agree. However, the average new manager goes 10yrs into their role before they get _any_ training. So I'm not sure if they're at fault here or if they've been setup to fail.
I'm sure most workers would be considered incompetent if they were put into roles where they had no experience or training.
We launched the goals library Sept last year and it's been growing slowly ever since. Still more to do on it (and other large/free/helpful resources like our template library https://hypercontext.com/agenda-templates)
Most of the initial goals were contributed by our network so it was built pretty quickly.
In my head, Hera is more of a merge of something like apple reminders and apple notes. More of a single-player experience for productivity.
Superpowered has a bunch of similar concepts - however their launch claims that meeting events won't be the focus forever. Moving to github and slack soon. So we'll see.
There are a couple others in the batch that will be launching soon that are loosely competitive.
I think it's part of a broader recognition that people who "live out of their calendars" weren't having an easy 2020.
For what it's worth, we think meetings are the means to the end not the end, not the end itself.
We've looked at that and found it's been more beneficial for folks to use one or two of our canned conversation starters to uncover something they wouldn't have otherwise talked about.
How is pressing a key on a piano different from pressing a key on an electronic piano?