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I'm sure the founders of Hera know this, but just so there's clear representation here on HN: as a Mac user, I would happily pay $100/year for anything that makes my meetings better. I'd pay more than $100/year. I'd pay $100/year for every person on my team. I don't care if it's an electron app, or 10 lines of Javascript: if it makes meetings better, I'm in.

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You imply that you might, but are you actually planning on buying this? I'm curious because I see lots of people saying they would use something, but it doesn't always mean they will.

I'm sold on the concept and vision, I've installed it: if it does deliver value -- which I suspect it will -- I'll absolutely pay for it (I'd have to! I have more 4 meetings per week) and will advocate for it within my team. Meeting inefficiency costs my company thousands every month.

This doesn’t make any sense in context of the actual paid app market. If you cared about paying for time-saving meeting quickjoin and automation software you’d already be paying for Fantastical, Agenda, etc. and you’d be mentioning it here.

I think you’re confusing price for actual utility here. I do wish this team luck but they aren’t doing enough for the money, given what $50-100/year per team member already gets you.

you would, but you don't have to, especially when there are free alternatives around ;)

name some free alternatives.

Just to make sure the value prop of Hera is clear (given the alternative itsycal): Joining your meeting in one-click is a small fraction of our value proposition. The core of what users do in Hera is around efficiently preparing and taking actionable notes in meetings.

Feel free to check the Loom demo done by Louise and don't hesitate if you have any questions!

checked out, now i understand that you're a WYSIWYG editor for editing calendar events and a menubar app to join meetings

correct?

No, it's not: You can see Hera as a note-taking app entirely dedicated to meetings. It's easy to take notes in meetings, capture highlights or next actions that you can then either export to other tools or easily access in your future meetings.

thanks for explanation! and sorry for me being hostile

should say, the automation feature is pretty neat though :)

No problem, thanks for taking the time to comment :)

The main value prop is note taking and the workflow around it:

1. Creating and choosing a template for a meeting. e.g. my 1 on 1 vs new customer onboarding vs. customer research meetings all have different formats. I have a template in a text file today that a duplicate before every meeting. It's annoying.

2. Being able to mark and export todos from your notes to the place where I keep todos.

3. Being able to share your notes.

4. Being able to export notes to Slack/Notion/Google Docs for my teammates who don't use or need to use Hera

Seeing my next meeting in the menubar and joining is the least interesting part of Hera.

No horse in the race here. But if you're going to comment you may want to do the work to comment fairly. The sum total of the work I did was watch the 2 minute Loom video - so it's not even a lot of work to do.

There are free alternatives for email, to-do list apps, time tracking software, etc., and people still pay for tools that make them more productive. The fact that you won't pay for it doesn't mean that others won't.

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