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Re:Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together by nmnm on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:17PM (#33456874)
Thanks for the question! We didn't really focus on the enterprise market yet. So far our customers are individual users looking for a time blocking solution that goes beyond calendar features. The main target is busy professionals like managers and founders, the response has been very good and we really feel like we've been scraping the surface of the market.

Regarding the CAC, so far the vast majority of our growth was organic we invested very little in paid advertising.

Re:Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together by Terretta on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:40PM (#33460151)
Super obvious you aren't focusing on Enterprise by the radio silence on asks for Teams or Microsoft TODO integration.

Since pandemic there are a ton of real companies making actual money and willing to pay for things (!!!) who are using M365. Something like 85% of companies, in fact.

I so often see products starting with e.g. Google Docs integration or dev tools integration, and feel as though, okay, you're scratching your particular itch, but please won't you wake up and let companies with money give it to you?

Start by adding "Sign in with Microsoft" and support the Work/School accounts not just personal. Boom, you just expanded your reach by becoming frictionless to the 85% of the market you were not previously catering to.

Also consider answering the Teams integration and Microsoft TODO object integration threads. They're sorted in your planned columns, with not a peep in over a year.

PS. Don't forget Sign In with Apple. If there is a group as apt to toss money at you for productivity as people with Gmail, it's people with iPhones and Macs.

TL;DR, your login should look like this:

https://www.xsplit.com/user/auth?redirect_to=%2Fdashboard%2F...

Re:Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together by nmnm on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:31PM (#33461236)
The Microsoft suite' integration is something we want to work on real soon.

We didn't do it so far because our main problem was product-market fit, and increasing the addressable market was secondary.

I agree with everything you said, and thanks for the suggestions!

Re:Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together by baetylus on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:11AM (#33462108)
"was product-market fit" -- Do you have it now? Looks useful.
Re:Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together by nmnm on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:43AM (#33463973)
Almost there. We have good retention on specific cohorts and we are working on the 3 main reasons for churn
Re:Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together by ron0c on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:04AM (#33465930)
O365 was the first thing I was looking for. The university I work for is heavily invested in O365 calendaring and Tasks, but for myself personally I use a combination of other services. If this could bring them all together for my wife and I to have a single pane of glass I'd be in.