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Saving four hours a month is great, and if you have a captive audience who is being told to use the mobile app to submit expenses, that will force adoption. Tr

Saving four hours a month is great, and if you have a captive audience who is being told to use the mobile app to submit expenses, that will force adoption. Trying to get individual users to adopt a workflow is going to be much harder. The target audience for the mobile app might not be the users themselves, but their managers. Also, your workflow of using Slack to enter expenses, which looks awesome btw, might actually be easier for people to use than stopping midstream to use a mobile app.

drajan 11y ago
Completely agree with the point that the managers are the target audience. People use all kinds of poorly-designed an inconvenient software at work because they're forced to by their boss are the company IT department. Well-designed software is already a leg up, but only if you can properly sell it to the correct decision makers and make it easy for them to switch over. This app wasn't inherently flawed — if it had started to get traction from a couple companies using it, then word-of-mouth spread because of how easy the app was to use, it could have gone a lot better. I can imagine my friends who are management consultants using this to keep track of all the expenses they're playing on the company card or billing the client.
Micoloth 11y ago
I cant believe i'm reading this.. How is saving 4 hours per month useful, and how in the world is it worth learning a new app for that. Maybe this isn't really the right place to say this, but the moment the world will realize how crazy this whole startups thing is getting..
- win_ini 11y ago
  I think your place of wonderment is misplaced. If someone can save 4 MINUTES of an activity they HATE to do - it is worth learning an app. There are all kinds of companies that basically help you save time doing what you hate: Premium Pickup Laundry Services, On-demand Valets, On-demand cars. When was the last time you said "fuck it I'm going to take a taxi because I don't want to learn this new UBER app"? Companies reimburse BILLIONS of dollars to employees every year.

drajan 11y ago

Completely agree with the point that the managers are the target audience. People use all kinds of poorly-designed an inconvenient software at work because they're forced to by their boss are the company IT department. Well-designed software is already a leg up, but only if you can properly sell it to the correct decision makers and make it easy for them to switch over. This app wasn't inherently flawed — if it had started to get traction from a couple companies using it, then word-of-mouth spread because of how easy the app was to use, it could have gone a lot better. I can imagine my friends who are management consultants using this to keep track of all the expenses they're playing on the company card or billing the client.

Micoloth 11y ago

I cant believe i'm reading this.. How is saving 4 hours per month useful, and how in the world is it worth learning a new app for that. Maybe this isn't really the right place to say this, but the moment the world will realize how crazy this whole startups thing is getting..

win_ini 11y ago
I think your place of wonderment is misplaced. If someone can save 4 MINUTES of an activity they HATE to do - it is worth learning an app. There are all kinds of companies that basically help you save time doing what you hate: Premium Pickup Laundry Services, On-demand Valets, On-demand cars. When was the last time you said "fuck it I'm going to take a taxi because I don't want to learn this new UBER app"? Companies reimburse BILLIONS of dollars to employees every year.