How to make the app more popular? #3586
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Videos on how to easily 😉 setup a Webdav server to privately sync your files. There are youtubers, rumble, odysee, twitter-x, etc. channels dedicated to data privacy and security, maybe they could be reached out to? Methinks that's an untapped market, but setup needs to be a little easier or clearer though. (Assuming it is possible/insofar as it is possible; I'm still trying to figure it out for apple devices.) |
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Another possibility, update the Productivity blog on the website with productivity advice and use-case scenarios showing off Super-Productivity's features, so the site itself is a place of interest and a source of information. The site could then do a little of its own marketing. A picture is worth a thousand words... some thumbnails on the productivity blog might help make it more interesting. |
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There is a large productivity community surrounding the app Obsidian (as well as a subreddit), with many content creators (e.g., Nicole van der Hoeven). I image there might be an interest in that community for the Superproductivity app as well. |
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I guess this is might be something you've heard a lot before, but maybe more modern UI? |
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Not sure if you use reddit... /r/selfhosted would be worth posting to: 30K views and it brought me here. /r/productivity as well. |
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I just discovered Super Productivity through a tech news article and wow, it's fantastic. I think more people should know about it, for sure! One addition that could boost and broaden its appeal is more integrations with general team project management software, such as Asana. This would be a good complement as an individual's tasks on a team (in Asana) could be managed personally (in Super). Skedpal takes this approach and is a good example, I think. |
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Word of mouth is powerful, and I think a key to gaining users—who would then sing the praises of SP—would be the ability to easily import tasks from an existing system. SP has a great feature set and could probably replace commercial tools for many people, but when your whole life is loaded into one product, moving to another has to be made easy. In my case, SP looks like a great alternative to ToDoist, but I'm faced with manually re-entering a couple hundred tasks. Some products can import the raw export file from leading competitors. Others provide a sample CSV import file and it's up to the user to massage their exported data into that format. Either method would make it easier for more users to come on board. |
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I am a usability manager and an accessibility manager. The layout of Super Productivity really could be improved. You also have accessibility (abbreviated: A11Y) issues and some violations regarding thre WCAG 2.2 AA To make Super Productivity more popular, you can also write on your website, that it is exttremely helpful for people sufffering on ADHD (in German: ADHS), because they have massive problems staying focused. |
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Integration and collaboration with Joplin Note App. They are also open-source and they have a nice community around the app like here. Their main focus is note taking therefore elaborated task/to-do manager functionalities are missing (for an understandable reason). I believe SuperProductivityApp could cover that gap! |
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I played a bit with Obsidian but also had a look at Joplin. |
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I'm a marketing and ops guy -- I'm marketing this by literally getting clients and giving them super productivity, and coaching them through as they use it to grow their business. I'd rather they pay for coaching + support, than pay an app like Clickup that they pay $500/mo for a few seats. That value is in the transformation to their bottom line -- not a new feature or habit they need to be on top of. You need to have financial incentives -- for affiliates to even want to push this. Let me know if you want to discuss or brainstorm stuff. |
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But TBH, integrate this with Obsidian -- and it'll be able to integrate with local agentic AI agents to do tasks. There is a huge push in the business space to use n8n automations, and local AI to automate a business. If AI can know how to handle tasks, in a way that humans can see, and feed it ideas and learning and context, then it makes it all very spicy and profitable to keep running. |
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As a business owner, I get solicitations for a new AI integration every single day, from companies I am not too sure will be around next month. Yes, there is a huge push because AI is awash in VC. But the AI is mostly oversold. I would not put too many resources into integrations with fleeting AI tools that overpromise and underdeliver, especially if they are not open source (which is really the only thing that assures their dependability and potential longevity). |
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Many great things in life come with some effort behind them. I think the most important parts are a great product and patience. However, seeing is believing. I think ample quality youtube videos (a few long ones is fine, but shorter ones on features, as well as how to accomplish certain methods using your software). I'm not super savvy with the "productivity" world, but IMO, if you illustrated really clearly how to do a "Getting Things Done (GTD)" tutorial, (and then ones for other popular workflows or whatever), that already is going to help a lot. Word of mouth will take care of things in the long run, but again, patience is the key there. A great product will eventually rise to the top. But if that's still too slow for your liking, I'm a firm believer in "give value, get value." You've done a lot, but if you want faster for whatever reason, quality youtube tutorials would be a great start. On that note, it's really important to understand that if you RETAIN most of the people you capture, your rates of finding new people can be low. I'd focus on ensuring that you're really pleased with the performance (bugs, stability, etc) as well as ensuring there is good documentation. Most people who shop for software kinda feel out what's there in the space, and if the first days are frustrating, you're a bit less likely to keep them. I think the tutorial is a HUGE step in the right direction, but banging documentation and tutorials will significantly boost retention, I feel. Ultimately, I think you have a fine product and I can tell you've put some effort into it. Consistency and patience will do wonders in this area I feel. I've already told some people about the software today (just today started messing with it, too). It will be part of my workflow going forward because it seems to check my boxes, but I'd love to see more documentation personally. As an example, I use Tangent (markdown note taking software. Quite niche). And I originally downloaded it like 4 to 6 months ago. But it sat there unused for three months because I was overwhelmed with how good it probably was...but I didn't find the documentation for whatever reason. It could have been dead forever with me. But then I DID find the documentation on a second revisit and now it's my daily driver for notes. My point is, the software was great, and a great fit for me, and it was only by chance that I even found it...but it almost ended up being a flop despite being almost perfect for me. So, even getting my attention to download it and it being a perfect fit wasn't enough. He also put a website up with a demo of the note taking style he designed the software around...which helped me "see" what it could do. The documentation even might not have been enough. Anyways, I'm just trying to help out because I like what you're doing and I'm just speaking from what I've seen. A picture says a thousand words. I think you've done well with your site and stuff. I'd love to see a Discord personally. And it might be smart on your part to make videos teaching people sound principles around productivity or something (while using your software). Focus on giving value that can be used with ANY software basically, and that video is more likely to trend and get attention. When you create that value and goodwill for others, it comes back to you, too. If it just feels like a plug for your software, it probably won't do as well. Make separate playlists on your youtube for each of these categories, too. Like one for the quick and dirty tutorials, one for more advanced, longer tutorials, and then one playlist of like productivity theory or something that purely focuses on universal principles that apply to all scenarios/software/etc. It can be the free value that you offer others out of your goodwill and will get you in front of more people. That's all I've got to say. I appreciate what you're trying to do here. I need to go figure out your software now. Hahaha. That's how I found this thread. I was trying to find help here in your discussions. |
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Having a lot of users is important for this app to keep getting better and to survive in the long run. I would be grateful for any suggestion on how to make the app more popular. Which bloggers and youtubers might I reach out to? What reddit channels might be interesting? What other possibly unexplored avenues are there?
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