Here are the eight, each with a draft reply under 60 words. Some replies say "we'll confirm" and have an [ask] under them. Once you've filled in the [ask], replace that sentence with the answer.

1. Price

"How much is it?"

You can try it free for 14 days. Teams who join in launch week get the first three months at half price, until Monday 9 November. We'll confirm the regular price and reply here.

[ask: What is the regular price? Is it per team or per person? Does starting the trial need a card?]

2. The launch offer and the trial

"If we start the trial this week but pay after it ends, do we still get half price?"

Teams who join in launch week get the first three months at half price, and the offer ends Monday 9 November. A trial started this week runs past that date, so we'll confirm exactly what counts as joining and reply here.

[ask: Does a team get half price by starting the trial by 9 November, or by paying by 9 November? At what time, and in which time zone, does the offer end?]

3. How it compares with what they use now

"How is this different from the calendar and to-do app we already use?"

Acme Planner reads your calendar and to-do list on Sunday evening and plans your week into real time slots, around the meetings everyone already has. When a new meeting appears, it moves the tasks, so nobody drags blocks around. One beta team's operations lead called it "the first planner we didn't abandon after two weeks."

If the comment names another product, post this reply as it is and don't mention that product.

4. Privacy

"What does it do with our calendar data? Who can see it?"

Acme Planner reads your calendar and to-do list so it can plan your week. We'll confirm exactly what access it asks for, where the data is kept and who can see it, and reply here with the details.

[ask: What access does it ask for: read only, or read and write? Where is the data stored? Who can see it? Is it used for anything besides planning? How does a team delete it?]

5. Setup time

"How long does setup take? Do we have to wait until Sunday for our first plan?"

Acme Planner plans each week on Sunday evening. We'll confirm how long setup takes for a team, and whether a team that starts midweek gets a plan before its first Sunday, and reply here.

[ask: How long does setup take for a team of 2 to 10, and what does each person have to do? Does a team that starts on a weekday get a plan before Sunday?]

6. Who it's for

"Does it work for one person, or for a team bigger than 10?"

Acme Planner is built for small teams of 2 to 10 people who share a calendar and keep missing deadlines. In the private beta, 38 teams have used it since June. We'll confirm how it works for one person or a larger team and reply here.

[ask: Can one person use it alone? Is there a team size limit, or a different plan above 10 people?]

7. Which tools it connects to

"Which calendars and to-do apps does it work with?"

It reads your team's shared calendar and your to-do list. We'll confirm the calendars and to-do apps it connects to at launch and reply here with the list.

[ask: Which calendar services and which to-do apps does it connect to on launch day? Or do tasks live inside Acme Planner?]

8. How it decides

"How does it decide which task goes where? Is this AI?"

It reads your calendar and to-do list, then plans tasks into real time slots around the meetings your team already has, and moves them when a new meeting appears. We'll confirm how it chooses which task goes in which slot, and whether AI is part of that, and reply here.

[ask: How does it choose which task goes in which slot: deadlines, priorities, time estimates? Does it use AI? If it does, the reply can say so plainly without using "AI-powered".]

Launch week, Tuesday 3 November to Monday 9 November 2026. This note includes paid numbers, so keep it internal.

What worked

• Trials: 412 teams started a free trial.
• Paid: 61 teams moved to a paid plan with the launch offer by Monday 9 November.
• Product Hunt: number 4 product of the day, with 286 upvotes and 74 comments.
• Waitlist email: 48% of the 1,240 people on the waitlist opened the launch email and 9% clicked, even though the button was wrong for the first 40 minutes.
• Comments: they gave us a clear list of what people need to know before they try it (see below).

What went wrong, and why

1. The launch email button pointed to the waitlist page for the first 40 minutes. Anyone who clicked in that window landed on the waitlist page, not the trial page, and we sent nothing to put it right.

• Why: [ask: How did the waitlist link end up on the button?] The usual causes are a button copied from an earlier waitlist email, or a link check done in the email editor instead of by clicking a sent copy.

2. Our launch pieces didn't answer the three questions people asked most:

• Does it work with Outlook or only Google Calendar? (asked 23 times)
• What is the price per user after the half price months? (asked 11 times)
• What data does it read from our calendars? (asked 9 times)

Why: none of the three answers was in the launch brief, so they weren't in the pieces we built from it. People had to ask in public, one at a time.

Three changes for next launch

1. Make a wrong link harmless, and catch it before the send.

• Send the launch email to ourselves first and tap the button from the inbox on a phone.
• From launch time, point the waitlist page to the trial page, so an old link still lands somewhere useful.
• Have a two-line correction email ready in case a link breaks anyway.

2. Answer the top questions before anyone asks. Put calendar support, price per user after the offer, and what data it reads on the home page, in the launch email and in the makers' first comment on Product Hunt.

3. Make the offer fit the trial.

• Write the offer as one sentence that says whether starting a trial or paying is what counts.
• Set the end date so a team that starts its trial on launch day can finish the trial before the offer closes.

This launch, a trial started on 3 November ran until 17 November, after the offer had ended. We don't yet know how many teams that affected.

To fix this week

Product

• Outlook. 23 asks in one week is the clearest product signal from launch. If it doesn't work with Outlook today, say so on the home page and at signup, so Outlook teams don't start a trial that can't connect.
• Launch week trial teams. Decide whether teams that pay after 9 November get half price. Tell them before the first launch week trials end on 17 November.

Site

• Pricing: one clear line on the price after the half price months, per user if that's how you charge.
• Calendar data: a short, plain page on what Acme Planner reads from calendars and what it doesn't.
• Waitlist page: confirm it now sends people to the trial page. If the waitlist form records signup times, find anyone who signed up in those first 40 minutes and send them the trial link with a one-line apology.
• Old offer: check that no page, Product Hunt listing or pinned post still offers half price.
• Recap email: before it goes to the list, tap its trial link from a sent copy.