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usefyi.com · Group blog · on HN since 2018
Use.fyi publishes analyses of productivity and collaboration software companies, such as Zoom, Notion, Evernote, and Chrome, plus remote work pieces.
What HN saysHN commenters mostly bring it up when comparing similar products and pointing to it as a close match to other tools.
34HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
31stories submitted
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- 15People are actively having bad experiences working from home1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
cercatrova · 2020-09-05
Looks good, this reminds me of https://usefyi.com/, any difference between the two?
ozten · 2020-07-06
The positioning is confusing, but could be a potential FYI[1] competitor. Their goal is to provide unified search across Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive, etc which businesses would happily pay for.
Or perhaps a vertical search engine for B2B...
If it is truly a general B2C search engine play, I think ignoring DDG as a datapoint is a misstep.
[1] https://usefyi.com/
Jefro118 · 2019-04-13
This seems like the closest fit: https://usefyi.com/. (at least judging from the landing page - haven't actually used it myself)
usefyi · 2018-11-03
Hi! We built something that can help you :) you can check it out here: https://usefyi.com
mandevil · 2019-09-24
A contemporary (to the exit) account certainly thought Trello underperformed, business model wise (was very complimentary of the tech stack, though)[1]. I've never worked in the B2C space so I can't comment on whether freemium was a better option, but I did spend a few years in B2B/SMB SaaS space and the business I worked for looked very different from Trello and was more successful, financially (our tech stack was almost certainly worse).
[1]: https://usefyi.com/trello-history/
lucasverra · 2020-01-19