Regarding credit cards – that's precisely our goal. To see how many people would be ready to pay (or provide a credit card at least). Of course, our product is not as developed as one would expect and we're going to see many cancellations. But it provides a useful data point for us nevertheless. Then we can act on the feedback and develop the product further to lower cancellation rate.
That's how it works now – you can book as many time slots as you need for your tasks. From my personal experience tasks take more than a single slot quite often.
For me using Asana as a personal tool wasn't really comfortable – there are no notes (at least there wasn't back then), you have to manually assign all tasks to yourself and there is no calendar integration.
Well, we started to build it for ourselves and our own needs. It all started from my personal experience being an Engineering Manager at Bumble where I had to manage multiple priorities/projects and go through 40+ meetings a week. Then we opened for the public access and started to see some interest from other people.
Anyway, you're right, it's a long road ahead of us if we want to be competitive on this market.
Regarding the first point – that's something I'd like to have personally as I have to manage multiple calendars. We'll come there at some point for sure.
That's a very valid concern. Given how often it was expressed in this topic, looks like we need to find a way to accommodate it (e.g. export option). We'll think about it, thanks!
Well, even if it comes to that, we'll shut it down in an ethical way – allow some time to transfer the data and add some data export options.
However, we personally use it every day and want to keep it alive even for a small user base. And of course, we hope to achieve more than this and build a decent and successful product.
It's still early days for us and we consider our current tasks, notes and events as very basic at the moment. Just want to see if the concept works at all for other people as it works for us. There is a long road ahead to get to the full functionality we envision.
We're thinking about introducing more accessible pricing models in the future, especially given the interest from student audience.
Given, that we're building this project in our free time with no investments, we want to get to a point where we can focus solely on Emery. That's why we're starting with a bit of a steep pricing.
No, you'll retain access to your data. We switch accounts without a subscription into a read-only mode.