... Hello everyone - we ve been really quiet recently... ...that s because, after a wild 18 months, we re completing a private sale of Ting and closing the company. To wrap it up, I thought what better than a full-colour, HD play-by-play (or blow-by-blow) of those 18 months. How we got so much right and still got it wrong . To everyone who upvoted and supported us along the way: it meant more than you ll know ... ... lessons help you get further than we did... Three lessons I keep coming back to First, the lessons, in case you churn before reaching the timeline. 1. Simple and obvious is good. Hard to replicate is better. Ting

... here through the @Product Hunt community. Both of our teams care deeply about helping people come together and making meetings more meaningful, so we started asking: What happens if you combine the best of Simplora with the best of Ting? Well, now it works...! If you re on a call using @Simplora and someone starts talking about booking the next meeting, Simplora can detect that scheduling intent and pass it to @Meet-Ting

... start that." "I could never ask that." I hear it all the time. Usually in response to things I'm doing - which, if you keep reading, you'll find deeply ironic. When I left my job to build @Meet-Ting , my co-workers couldn't imagine leaving a safe salary. When Ting

... just made a much overdue update to our website based on some key insights that I thought helpful to share. If you're new here, @Meet-Ting is AI that runs your calendar and meetings end to end, you just CC it into email to takeover or text on WhatsApp to handle things. Sounds simple? Actually, no! People still struggle to CC AI into an email thread because it's a new behaviour, just like getting an assistant ... ... first time. Same for WhatsApp, you don't immediately think, let me text my AI EA. But that's actually what we need for a more retentive product. Now you can go to the website, try the experience of Ting

... shows waste 15-40% of every sales team's calendar until I met a stranger at Web Summit. I was standing by our booth when someone wandered over and started asking about what we're building at @Meet-Ting . I assumed he was just curious. Then he mentioned his company loses a lot of time to no-shows across his sales team. I asked how many. "We get 10,000 inbound demos a month." He walked off eventually, and someone ... ... over to me and said: "Do you know who that was?". Turns out he was the Head of Sales at a European unicorn. We stayed in touch. And that conversation became a feature! We call it 'No Show Recovery'. Ting

... constantly looking for ways to reduce the pain and cognitive load of managing your calendar. We started with something simple: CC Ting in an email and it schedules the meeting for you. Then we added WhatsApp - message Ting

... Before I started Ting, I did the classic founder things... Read every Paul Graham essay. Listened to Masters of Scale . Obsessed over founder stories. There s always that moment in those stories. The magical customer call. The gold-dust that changes everything. The door-knocking moment (Airbnb). It is romantic. But, but. but. In reality? It s really, really hard. People are busy. Most outreach goes unanswered. You send thoughtful emails. You DM. You ask for just 15 minutes. silence ... ... then, someone replies. And those early calls? They re some of my most special founder memories. A recent call that changed how I think about AI A user reached out saying he loved what we re building with Ting

... recent Ting v2 launch, we talked about giving your calendar your brain so it can make decisions for you. That means moving from reactive proactive full automation. We ve experimented with full automation, but it turns out it needs a lot of context to get right - and when it gets it wrong, the consequences can be pretty painful... when calendars, meetings, and other people are involved, that s a recipe for disaster! So we knew we had to step into ... ... been a bit flat each week while we collected feedback, but it s now more comprehensive and useful. It gives you a clear overview of what s coming up - and lets you press a single button for Ting

... coolest parts of my job is getting a front-row seat to how @marianaprazeres thinks about AI. Memory feels table stakes in AI right now. But for @Meet-Ting , it s not just a log of the past - it s a living system that shapes how people schedule, work, and want to spend their week. It s not just logistics - it s patterns around energy, priorities, and relationships over time. Here are a few things we learned while designing ...

... Everything with Ting started here on Product Hunt, so feels only right to wrap the last four months. It s been mad . It's the only word I can use. First time founders, new team, big idea, AI - I mean, that's all the fun ingredients. So what does 'mad' actually mean though? Let me try... 1. Less sleep. 2. More internal reward. 3. A new ability to sit at the tension of everything's going to go right ... ... some going to Series B in record time. They feel crippled with not making it. I say this out loud because I think it's good for other builders to read, it helped me to hear it. What about Ting

... feature from Ting that I thought had some learnings for everyone building in AI. At 7pm local time yesterday, in 1,000 inboxes across the world, @Meet-Ting

... launched Meet-Ting on Gmail to move fast. It got us out there, but we quickly built up technical debt and a heavy reliance on Google's APIs.  This was a problem. Our most valuable potential users (the "meeting-heavy" pros) all use Outlook .  After months of focused work to improve core reliability, it was time to expand our ecosystem. We call it our "Ting

... obvious (yet). More on that soon. In the meantime: We had a great post from the largest AI community on Instagram that brought in a wave of new users - we ve now sailed past 550+ people using Ting. Which means somewhere, right now, Ting

... Ting's magic has always been in "multiplayer" mode - CC the AI, and it books your meetings with other people. But we quickly realized a huge part of calendar management is actually "single-player," because: CC'ing an AI adds friction if you don't have a thread going, and digging through an old Ting

... months ago, we launched @Meet-Ting here on Product Hunt in closed beta. And you know what that s meant? Lots of new features Lots of bugs (oh yes) Lots of new users (grateful) But most of all it s time to boldy go from closed open. Why now? Honestly? We ll never feel ready. (Well I won t. My CTO and team have been ready for weeks). But here are the real reasons: Waitlist friction Waitlists are great ... ... people in one by one. But we lost 6k people at the front door. 7.7k web visits 1.3k signups. That s a lot of maybe later. The growth marketer in me cried a little. Reliability + data Ting

... sticks with you. For me, it was: People don t want your time. They want your energy. Fifteen minutes of full focus beats thirty minutes half-scrolling your phone. That same idea is shaping how we re building @Meet-Ting - not just another scheduling tool, but a more emotionally intelligent scheduler. One month into closed beta, Ting

... wrote last week about how we re building Ting on two axes: one to get attention, the other to build the product. On attention, we re doing pretty well in 3-weeks: 1k on the waitlist. 200 people have joined meetings booked by Ting

... team that s solving the chaotic, human, messy reality of scheduling with AI How to apply Email schedulingvictims@this-ting.com with: A quick intro Your CV Why (finally) solving meeting scheduling excites you If it s a good fit, Meet-Ting will schedule the interview for you We aim to reply to everyone with feedback, but it may take a little time...! Even if this exact role isn t the one, we re always interested in talented people with AI, full-stack ...

... just hit: 600+ people on the Meet-Ting waitlist 275+ invites sent 50+ meetings booked ~30 weekly actives using it regularly I ve just written up the full story of how we raised before our launch - including the hacks and step-by-step approach we used (UK-focused) - on my Substack . I m a first-time founder, so if this can save you hours of podcasts, GPT prompts, and late-night desk research, I hope it helps! Here ... ... domain expertise. sort of unrelated but how did you get 600 people onto a waitlist? Comment from Matt Carroll(@catt_marroll): im not in the UK so no real comment on that front.  im sure you considered bootstrapping vs

... career has mainly been spent working at big companies (TikTok, adidas etc.) and it's easy to forget your standing on the shoulders of brave founders and small teams who have this same moment at the start. Meet-Ting is a free AI assistant that lives in your inbox and handles all the scheduling back-and-forth. Just CC Ting

... closer, open to co-innovate! You just Cc it, it reads the thread, parses intent and direction, then goes ahead and offers time/books call/sends invite and reschedules if needed. Bunch of info on our page about Meet-Ting or grab me on LinkedIn. It s Gmail only right now though! Comment from Youssef Kacem(@youssef_kacem): In my experience, the most efficient way to personalize cold emails at scale is by combining automation tools like n8n or Zapier with ... ... seen similar patterns while working on workflow-based personalization systems at Turgo, where the quality improves a lot when messaging is tied to real context like role, company activity, or intent signals. Curious how others are balancing personalization depth vs

... although they are legends. This has always been the case, and I wouldn't be deterred. You are an orde of magnitude (or two) more likely to die from not finding product-market fit than you are from a competitor killing you. Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @jonayed_tanjim  I'm not close enough to Webhooks to understand if this is a valuable problem to solve. But if this is a common build vs