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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.


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 pop up from SV/HN/dev bubble and let companies with money all across middle business America 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

PS. Yes, that example has SSO, and no, it's not that hard to add support for now that Google and Azure both have wizards, not just startups using Okta. In fact, if you get rid of the little email icon, tada, you no longer have to store people's passwords at all, and can say important-sounding things about taking people's security seriously.

PPS. Great product idea, and slick implementation so far. Countless people I know want this. They'll need you to support their IdP though.


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!


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.


"was product-market fit" -- Do you have it now? Looks useful.


Almost there. We have good retention on specific cohorts and we are working on the 3 main reasons for churn


Hi! Yes https://product.akiflow.com/features-and-improvements-reques... We are also going to release a web app soon which should help linux users


Thank you - this is a basic prerequisite for any productivity app imo


That's so great to hear :) Would be great to hear from you after the trial to understand if the integration with Slack works as expected!!


Hello, feel free to reach out on the chat for more free trial if you need!

I didn't try Amie personally, but I agree that importing tasks automatically via integration is one of our differentiators. We put a lot of effort into creating a strong task management tool and we have a set of features to enhance planning. For example, we added rituals to plan our day, folders, labels, and sections to organize your tasks. On top of that, we offer a full calendar experience optimized for time blocking with features like "meet with", share availability, multiple time zones and customizable views


That sounds amazing - there are some similarities with Amie, but customizable views is something I'm looking forward to try out

Thank you - it's quite unfortunate that there isn't a "free plan"


We want to keep building the best experience for personal use. For example, more integration, improving time blocking features etc... We are also doing customer interviews to investigate how we can help teams' interacting better. If you are currently working in a team, we'd love to have a call with you to understand how we could improve!


Thank you so much! :)


Hi congrats on Artemis, looks very cool! This is indeed a huge and very competitive market with a lot of different solutions. We saw a lot of founders tackling the problem with different approaches leading to structural differences in the tool they develop, so I think that there's actually much space for innovation and improvements! Would love to have your feedback on Akiflow :)


It is! https://product.akiflow.com/features-and-improvements-reques...

We are getting more and more requests for developers' tools! In the meantime, you can already connect Jira via Zapier. We already created some templates for you to use and you can find them in Settings > Integrations > Add via Zapier or use these links: https://zapier.com/apps/jira/integrations/akiflow https://zapier.com/apps/jira-software/integrations/akiflow https://zapier.com/apps/jira-service-desk/integrations/akifl...


Awesome -- Jira, for all of its complexity and oddities, has been the only tool full-featured enough to handle my task-management and collaboration needs.

Thanks for innovating in a crowded space :)!


isn't zapier like a million dollar a month?


They should have a free tier that you can use up to 100 tasks/mo. We can't wait to have the native integration ready!


Thank you so much for this :)


I’ve been building my own: https://akiflow.com. Allows me to consolidates my tasks in the same place from multiple apps (notion, asana..), turn emails/slack messages into tasks, view all my calendars and drag&drop tasks to do time blocking.


Looks promising to me, but 15$ a month is too heavy, I find. 5 $ a month would be a no brainer to buy and switch to it personally.

But I mind apps giving them access to my email box only for comfort.

Try to merge this product with tutanota (or proton) and I would pay 25 per month!


Thanks for the feedback! At the moment your gsuite token is only stored on your machine and the synch happens between your device and google servers. We’ll may change this in the future to improve performances and multi-device support tho


I really like this but I need multiple people to have access to my calendar for scheduling. If you can figure how to build this for small teams I'd love that.


We are working on it! Would be great to have a chat to talk about how you would like it :)


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