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At NeetoCal(https://neeto.com/neetocal) I'm offering as much free as possible. The free users help me understand if there is product-market fit or not. If the users want certain features then they let us know and we implement them.

If I put pricing day one then I'll miss out on all the feedbacks. Of course it all depends on how dire you have the need for money. NeetoCal doesn't need money immediately since the consulting company is there to provide the revenue.

The intent was not to hijack the discussion but to provide choices to the people. After all, we are talking about Loom alternatives here.

We built neetoRecord (https://neeto.com/neetoRecord) which is also a Loom alternative. Full disclosure - I'm part of the team that built neetoRecord.

I built neetoInvoice. https://neeto.com/neetoinvoice. It's completely free because we want you in. We make money using other products.

This is a side note. I built "Learn SQL" using SQLite. https://courses.bigbinaryacademy.com/learn-sql/

100% agree. That's problematic. We will fix it.

I added this license around a couple of years ago. I remember that I was in a hurry since Google needed a policy document to approve our application for "Google login". Still that's not a good excuse. We will fix it ASAP.

We wrote a bit about how "Solid Queue" uses "UPDATE SKIP LOCKED". https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/solid-queue

I love your website. It's awesome.

If you look at our product metrics, then numbers are anemic. Constantly, I get messages from all the corners not to publish the numbers that make us look bad. But that's the reality. That's how most of the startups start. https://blog.neeto.com/p/neeto-marketing-updates-for-decembe...

We wrote a blog on various Rails background job processors handle jobs.

Every week is a hustle. Growth is slow. We publish our growth numbers in our marketing blog on the 1st of each month. https://blog.neeto.com/p/neeto-marketing-updates-for-septemb...

We are optimizing for surviving till 2025 and hopefully beyond. We have not taken any VC funding but the consulting work supports the product development at neeto.com.

I think the subscription model is fine. What's not fine is the cost of subscription software. With so much competition in the market the price should go down but unfortunately so far that has not been the case. We at neeto from get go are going for a low price. https://blog.neeto.com/p/neetocal-a-calendly-alternative-is

Listen to the first five episodes to this podcast to get started. If you like it then keep going. https://www.philosophizethis.org/

Inspite of all the competition the SAAS pricing is not coming down. There are around 30 calendly alterntatives. However if you check the price of these alternatives they are not too far from what the market leader is charging. More on this at https://blog.neeto.com/p/neetocal-a-calendly-alternative-is.

> Maybe just literally not enough people would use it

I think that's the key. I have no idea how many people use fastmail or hey.com. And what percentage of those users need neetoCal type service. Now factor in what percentage of those user would come to neetoCal even if they need the service. If we do build CalDAV which is not a trivial task then we might put it in the "pro" plan. Now even lesser number of those folks would actually sign up.

Google Calendar is the first choice because it has the largest number of users.

At this stage of the business we don't think we can do a good job of calculating the life time value of a customer. So currently we are not considering lifetime access.

Thank you.

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I would be interested in chatting with you about the feature that is missing in neetoCal. Please email me at neeraj@bigbinary.com.

Credit card companies charge 2.7% + 30 cents for each transaction. It makes it very difficult to charge for anything less than $4.

I'm with you on your ask for 1 euro/dollar per user per month. And that's what is reflect in our yearly billing which is $2 per user per month.

Absolutely. We are optimizing for sustainability. The important thing is not to die. As long as we are alive and we are serving our customers well then we are in "business".

All good points. Here is my take.

Churn is so high because the cost is high. Cost is high because they spend money on marketing and sales. They need to spend that money to have growth because product is the only thing we are doing.

You could be right that with consulting on the side neetoCal might not be able to grow. It's also possible that because of consulting neetoCal would be able to grow. We are not going to spend money on marketing on sales because we are earning so less. We will rely on marketing blog like this one and the word of mouth from our users.

Once we have reached a certain level and neetoCal is mentioned as a "Calendly alternative" in most discussions then the need to spend on marekting is even less.

Lasly we are ok with having a life style business. Important thing is to be alive and not die. That's why we are prioritizing being sustainable over the growth.

I've updated the blog to mention that this feature is offered by Google Calendar.

I'm part of the team that built neetoCal. Here is my take.

I 100% agree that the switching cost from Calendly is pretty low. There is very little stickiness. I agree that Google/MS adding this feature to their calendar will wipe out a huge portion of the market.

If we take this analogy that Google/MS can add feature X then it would be hard to build anything new. They are gaints and they can build anything.

However being a really big company also means that they might not be able to pay attention to the requirements of individuals. They needs to be in the game where millions of folks are using it.

You can see that in google form. It's simple and it works. Still typeform, jotform and neetoForm are thriving. That's because folks want more than what google form is offering currently.

We have webhooks. https://help.neetocal.com/articles/webhook

The backend is based on API. We have not yet exposed it. We'll do that very shortly.

neetoSocial got scheduling report, audience demographics in youtube, calendar UI for scheduling and more.

neetoSocial provides a comprehensive social media management platform that simplifies post management, scheduling, and analytics across multiple platforms like Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

Here are some of the new features, enhancements, and optimizations which were recently launched. 1⃣ Scheduling report email 2⃣ Early upload functionality for Instagram and Facebook 3⃣ Audience demographics YouTube reports 4⃣ Calendar UI for the posts section 5⃣ Platform-specific description in schedule posts form 6⃣ Data logging feature for Instagram and Facebook 7⃣ Improved media thumbnail loading time and data usage 8⃣ Fixed empty audience growth on low-activity Instagram accounts and much more!

neetoCal helps you schedule and manage meetings. Here are some of the new features, enhancements, and optimizations which were recently implemented.

Shape snapping is a feature in the software that allows shapes or objects to be automatically aligned or adjusted to a particular grid when moved or resized.

neetoWireframe uses React Konva to build wireframes and prototypes. React Konva is a JavaScript library that provides a React component interface to the Konva library, a powerful 2D drawing library for the web.

React Konva enables developers to create and manipulate complex graphics and visualizations in a declarative and efficient way using familiar React patterns. With React Konva, developers can easily create canvas-based applications, animations, interactive games, and rich user interfaces.

React Konva is highly customizable and provides many features, such as shapes, animations, event handling, and filters. It is an open-source library and is widely used in web development projects.

In this blog, using animations, we'll see how we implemented snapping shapes while dragging them in the canvas based on the position of other shapes.

neetoSite, is a website-building tool. Here are some of the new features, enhancements, and optimizations which were recently launched.

neetoSite is a website-building tool currently in development. As we continue to develop neetoSite, we have encountered challenges in implementing dynamic styling for the blocks. In this blog we discussed how using styled-components helped deliver dynamic blocks.