Clockwise Blog

TLDR:

The premise isn't ambitious enough, the use cases seem thin, and the lack of marketing pop reflects a lack of distinct USP. But, I'm encouraged to see someone trying technically ambitious work like this because its barking up the right tree.

Long version:

It seems like your value prop is possibly about how various workflows are organized vis-a-vis each other, but that really doesn't come through in your marketing. Rethinking the info architecture and organization of information in support of more efficient and focused workflows is a promising place to go but everything in the screenshots shows me things I've already seen. Each of the items in your marketing had me going 'I already have something for that, and this is probably way worse'.

I'm not seeing ideas in here yet that are sufficient to consider worthy of the technical challenge you've undertaken - that is, an environment where you have complete control over apps.

For instance, app grids are terrible, even the notion of apps is terrible because apps have their own distractions and workflows span apps. I'd expect something that sits at a layer below (web)apps to be able to do something about that, like extract useful things from apps without showing me the whole app. You need to flex your unique position with product approaches like this.

The main idea I'm seeing besides organizing is the time/task system. This looks a bit like single player Clockwise [1] and raises more questions than it answers. The main…

Clockwise | https://getclockwise.com | REMOTE first, office in San Francisco, California | Series C w. $76M+ in funding from Bain, Coatue, Greylock, Accel, Atlassian, Slack Fund, and other blue-chip investors.| US Work Authorization Required

Clockwise optimizes your team’s calendars to create more time in everyone’s day.

Using AI, Clockwise creates space in our schedules to be present when we’re collaborating and focused when we’re working alone.

We call it a time orchestration platform, the modern way to bring schedules together in harmony at the organizational level.

Want to learn more about the challenges we're solving? Check out our Fall Product Showcase recording: https://www.getclockwise.com/events/fall-product-showcase

Open Roles:

* Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Clockwise is looking to hire an Infrastructure-focused Engineer with backend chops who is passionate about the developer tools, infrastructure, and systems that provide our customers with reliable, secure, and scalable software. We value engineers who build for the end user, find fun in difficult problems, sweat the details, and love pushing code. We're a humble, fast-moving, and fun team building a consumer-centric culture with empathy, authenticity, focus, drive, curiosity, and enthusiasm.

Apply here: https://www.getclockwise.com/careers

If you're having trouble managing your work time, get started using Clockwise for free at: http://bit.ly/getclockwise

"Is Clockwise Worth the Hype?"…

Hi there, are you crafting each of these emails individually? I expect that would take up a bunch of time.

Here's some rules we generally follow:

1. Try to pick something that would normally require layers of research: E.g. “I saw that you posted every day for the last 2 weeks, and that it’s your first time running a business.” 1. make this line short and to the point 2. Ask a question about a common pain point they are mostly likely going through. 3. Say what you do, but god damn it say it fast - show that you can help with their problem. 4. EITHER 1. mention a case study that the reader is likely to relate to. 2. Offer to build something for free that others are charging for

[Example of what this looks like](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SZ0zW6L7vYdmOgjXvAZqkVZPj_0lXubB/view?usp=sharing)

- Simple message structure to use: 1. *observation* → explaining why we reached out 2. *problem* → referring to the complexity of pain points, that they face daily 3. *solution* → showing how we can help 4. *CTA with value* → asking if they are open for a convo while highlighting the benefit - Run your email through https://mailmeteor.com/spam-checker to detect spam keywords

I run a cold outbound agency, so I'd be happy to connect if you're interested in outsourcing any of this :) I know it seems overwhelming, but hopefully you found some of this actionable. Feel free to book 30 minutes if interested…

Clockwise | https://getclockwise.com | San Francisco (SF Bay Area) | ONSITE | Product Hunt's #2 Product of the Year 2019

Clockwise is creating the first intelligent calendar system by leveraging Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.

We've raised >$13M with Series A funding from Greylock, Accel, Slack Fund, etc.

We are looking for experienced engineers to join our current team coming from RelateIQ, Salesforce, Google, Dropbox, Twitter, Asana, Discord & Zephyr Health to help reshape productivity, calendaring & employee health.

Open Roles:

* Back End Engineer (Senior - Lead)

* Front End Engineer (IC - Senior)

* Product Designer

* Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Apply here: https://www.getclockwise.com/careers

or email your info to michael(at)getclockwise(dot)com

Let's help the world make time for what matters!

At work, we've been pushing everyone to use an app called clockwise. Basically it integrates with your calendar, moves meetings around (with your approval) to maximize focus time (2+ hour blocks of work).

It also allows you to set up "Do not disturb" on slack during your focus and meeting time. It's awesome.

(BTW, no personal association with the company, just a happy user).

https://www.getclockwise.com/