Re:Show HN: Emery – Personal productivity workspace
by chernobai on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:42PM
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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.
Re:Show HN: Emery – Personal productivity workspace
by madrox on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:45PM
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That surprises me. As an EM myself, I don't see this keeping up with my task load. I assumed this was targeted at junior ICs who may not have their workflow figured out yet. I wish you luck.
If you'd like a bit of product advice...each of the verticals you're building on (calendar, tasks, and notes) are packed with competitors and feature rich. I don't think you can offer a better product by creating an all-in-one solution. At best, you can help customers with no solution today, but you're banking on their lack of awareness of their options in the space at that point, and that's a bad strategy.
If you want to be successful in the productivity space, I think it's far, FAR more prudent to focus on one of these areas (calendar, email, or notes) and get really REALLY good at it by serving a particular workflow or customer segment that doesn't have a tailored solution.
Though maybe you just built something you want to use yourself and are operating this as a side project. If so...god speed.