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I love this idea, but I think there is a stronger pricing model than paying per session. Is the founder on HN? Please talk to me - this is a large market that

by pgt 7y ago

I love this idea, but I think there is a stronger pricing model than paying per session. Is the founder on HN? Please talk to me - this is a large market that I've been keeping an eye on for a while. If this is executed with the right toolset, this could be a Zoom or a Slack one day.

Spare_account 7y ago
Taylor Jacobson submitted focusmate to Show HN 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884258 He's posted on HN a few times, mostly promoting focusmate but he hasn't been active since the post I linked above. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taylorjacobson https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taylorjacobson
elliekelly 7y ago
If you sign up for FocusMate he’ll email you ten times a day. You can also sign up to do a FocusMate session with him and then you’d be able to send him a message via the platform.
- taylorjacobson 7y ago
  Taylor here. I welcome your feedback on how we do email campaigns.
  - elliekelly 7y ago
    I appreciate the opportunity. I quite like FocusMate but the emails drive me nuts. When I'm logged in I can change email settings for Calendar Invites (I definitely want these) and Performance Reports (if I could track my own performance metrics I'd want these but for now they're really just a prompt to schedule mores sessions like every other FocusMate email). Opting out of Performance Reports apparently doesn't opt me out of "FocusMate Stats" emails even though they're basically the same. Clicking "manage subscriptions" at the bottom of an email takes me to a different page of email settings that's almost impossible to figure out - Engagement? Outreach? Important Messages? CEO? I have no idea what I'm opting into or out of. Important messages sounds like something I want - I'm glad I got your emails about the new subscriptions, for example. (Was that an "important message" or "CEO"?) But important messages also seems to include not so important stuff - like the email of dubious veracity about the unemployed food truck guy who turned his life around in a week by scheduling a ton of FocusMate sessions. That was (yet another) email trying to get me to schedule more sessions. I like FocusMate and I think it's is well worth $5/month but any email that ends with some version of "book more sessions" is an email that I don't want or need.
    - taylorjacobson 7y ago
      Great feedback, thank you. We're still learning how to use our email tool optimally, and we have some fixes to implement, which will help reduce/elimiate the confusion you're talking about. Over time we can also integrate more of those emails directly into the app, in your settings, alongside the Cal invites and Performance reports. (Doing that requires more engineering work, so is a bit slower.) As far as the duplicate stats email: I just removed it. Our bad! Thank you again so much for the feedback. Keep it coming! Taylor
taylorjacobson 7y ago
Hi, got your tweet/email, chat soon!

by pgt 7y ago

Spare_account 7y ago

Taylor Jacobson submitted focusmate to Show HN 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884258 He's posted on HN a few times, mostly promoting focusmate but he hasn't been active since the post I linked above. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taylorjacobson https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taylorjacobson

elliekelly 7y ago

If you sign up for FocusMate he’ll email you ten times a day. You can also sign up to do a FocusMate session with him and then you’d be able to send him a message via the platform.

taylorjacobson 7y ago
Taylor here. I welcome your feedback on how we do email campaigns.
- elliekelly 7y ago
  I appreciate the opportunity. I quite like FocusMate but the emails drive me nuts. When I'm logged in I can change email settings for Calendar Invites (I definitely want these) and Performance Reports (if I could track my own performance metrics I'd want these but for now they're really just a prompt to schedule mores sessions like every other FocusMate email). Opting out of Performance Reports apparently doesn't opt me out of "FocusMate Stats" emails even though they're basically the same. Clicking "manage subscriptions" at the bottom of an email takes me to a different page of email settings that's almost impossible to figure out - Engagement? Outreach? Important Messages? CEO? I have no idea what I'm opting into or out of. Important messages sounds like something I want - I'm glad I got your emails about the new subscriptions, for example. (Was that an "important message" or "CEO"?) But important messages also seems to include not so important stuff - like the email of dubious veracity about the unemployed food truck guy who turned his life around in a week by scheduling a ton of FocusMate sessions. That was (yet another) email trying to get me to schedule more sessions. I like FocusMate and I think it's is well worth $5/month but any email that ends with some version of "book more sessions" is an email that I don't want or need.
  - taylorjacobson 7y ago
    Great feedback, thank you. We're still learning how to use our email tool optimally, and we have some fixes to implement, which will help reduce/elimiate the confusion you're talking about. Over time we can also integrate more of those emails directly into the app, in your settings, alongside the Cal invites and Performance reports. (Doing that requires more engineering work, so is a bit slower.) As far as the duplicate stats email: I just removed it. Our bad! Thank you again so much for the feedback. Keep it coming! Taylor

taylorjacobson 7y ago

Hi, got your tweet/email, chat soon!