This looks really cool, though I'm only half getting it. We use notion a bit, I spend a lot of time in Google sheets.
I'm a bit ashamed to admit, but I don't really understand how I would use this.
I've looked at your youtube channel, can I suggest you do a walkthrough with voice of your best customer use case and make it clear why this is of value?
I think you may be onto something, but I'm just missing that last bit of connection to make me go "I NEED THIS!!"
Also, your pricing is confusing. As someone who has run a company with confusing pricing before, this is a HUGE issue. You really need to simplify it. For our company, our costs were complicated and annoying because we had large service costs, (map data) and free accounts with tons of use could easily bankrupt us. Your cost structure shouldn't be challenging like that, so you should be able to simplify the pricing.
Things like 24 synced cells sounds incredibly small if I'm basically sharing my spreadsheet with notion. But maybe this is clearer when the user has a better idea of how they'd use your tool.
I always like pricing where I'm reluctant to pay, but feel I'll get so much value, that I don't really have a choice.
With your pricing at $15/month for 24 synced cells, I feel like I'm being asked to pay for a lot, and not getting much in return.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate you taking the time to write.
I totally understand your comments around pricing, the product first started just being your databases in sync, then I added the chance of having Sheets to Notion connections with synced columns, later on recurring tasks to schedule page creations and just a couple of weeks ago synced cells and the ability to connect a cell value with a block in Notion.
Pricing is HARD and it definitely requires some iterations, it is something I struggled with. I started with the limit based approach, 3 databases for free with every one hour updates and then upgrade for more databases and 15 minutes updates. I continued with that line of pricing for the rest of the features but it is probably not the best, number of databases is straightforward but the same is probably not true for the rest of the features, will give that some thoughts.
How would you price those features? I have been thinking about just having the limits over the number of databases and making the rest unlimited for the paid plans.
Regarding content: YES, 100%, I am a software developer and I enjoy writing code and solving problems, the same is not true for content creation unfortunately. I think that in terms of features there isn't a lot more to do for now, so it is time to move into marketing mode and record some good Youtube videos using the different features and giving it a better explanation, I promise!
When you sync a database, by default the connection will be Notion -> Sheets. Then you can make specific columns Sheets -> Notion, but not both ways the same column.
The idea is to enable a much bigger set of formulas and calculations that are not possible or really complicated in Notion so you can make them in Google Sheets and those values will be then sent to Notion, for example you can use GOOGLEFINANCE, IMPORTXML formulas or even mix and match different databases without the need of relations and roll ups.
Similar to how you define a formula property in Notion now but done in Sheets.
If you have a formula in a column in Sheets, you don't want it to get overwritten by a manual change in Notion . I am doing some testing with 2 way sync but with the current Notion API and change mechanisms in Sheets it is not straightforward to have something that just works for all the cases
pedalpete|4 years ago
I'm a bit ashamed to admit, but I don't really understand how I would use this.
I've looked at your youtube channel, can I suggest you do a walkthrough with voice of your best customer use case and make it clear why this is of value?
I think you may be onto something, but I'm just missing that last bit of connection to make me go "I NEED THIS!!"
Also, your pricing is confusing. As someone who has run a company with confusing pricing before, this is a HUGE issue. You really need to simplify it. For our company, our costs were complicated and annoying because we had large service costs, (map data) and free accounts with tons of use could easily bankrupt us. Your cost structure shouldn't be challenging like that, so you should be able to simplify the pricing.
Things like 24 synced cells sounds incredibly small if I'm basically sharing my spreadsheet with notion. But maybe this is clearer when the user has a better idea of how they'd use your tool.
I always like pricing where I'm reluctant to pay, but feel I'll get so much value, that I don't really have a choice.
With your pricing at $15/month for 24 synced cells, I feel like I'm being asked to pay for a lot, and not getting much in return.
leanzubrezki|4 years ago
I totally understand your comments around pricing, the product first started just being your databases in sync, then I added the chance of having Sheets to Notion connections with synced columns, later on recurring tasks to schedule page creations and just a couple of weeks ago synced cells and the ability to connect a cell value with a block in Notion.
Pricing is HARD and it definitely requires some iterations, it is something I struggled with. I started with the limit based approach, 3 databases for free with every one hour updates and then upgrade for more databases and 15 minutes updates. I continued with that line of pricing for the rest of the features but it is probably not the best, number of databases is straightforward but the same is probably not true for the rest of the features, will give that some thoughts.
How would you price those features? I have been thinking about just having the limits over the number of databases and making the rest unlimited for the paid plans.
Regarding content: YES, 100%, I am a software developer and I enjoy writing code and solving problems, the same is not true for content creation unfortunately. I think that in terms of features there isn't a lot more to do for now, so it is time to move into marketing mode and record some good Youtube videos using the different features and giving it a better explanation, I promise!
jitl|4 years ago
leanzubrezki|4 years ago
When you sync a database, by default the connection will be Notion -> Sheets. Then you can make specific columns Sheets -> Notion, but not both ways the same column.
The idea is to enable a much bigger set of formulas and calculations that are not possible or really complicated in Notion so you can make them in Google Sheets and those values will be then sent to Notion, for example you can use GOOGLEFINANCE, IMPORTXML formulas or even mix and match different databases without the need of relations and roll ups.
Similar to how you define a formula property in Notion now but done in Sheets.
If you have a formula in a column in Sheets, you don't want it to get overwritten by a manual change in Notion . I am doing some testing with 2 way sync but with the current Notion API and change mechanisms in Sheets it is not straightforward to have something that just works for all the cases