Aerotime - Group meetings together and find time for deep work

Thanks for hunting Aerotime, @mwseibel. Hey PH community 👋 Hope everyone's doing good out there. **OUR STORY** We started building Aerotime when we realized that we were not able to do anything important during work hours and "real work" was forced after 5 pm. My day as a product manager was going from one meeting to another. It’s not like there were a ton of meetings, just that they were spread out across the day creating these 30 min to 1 hour free time in between where no deep work was really possible. At the end of the day, I felt that nothing important was getting done. I saw myself writing PRDs and strategy docs post work hours just to catch-up. Urgent was taking over important. @goeldhru resonated with this problem even as an engineer at Amazon who didn't have a lot of meetings. Why? He was constantly distracted by trivial interruptions (a ping that didn’t need an instant response). This context switching made it hard for him to “zone in” on his work, causing him to code after work hours. Trivial interruptions were breaking the flow state. **WHY WE NEED AEROTIME** Our work life has become immensely better with tools that enable super fast collaboration - something we definitely need for teams to come together and succeed. But at the same time, it is also leading to loss of creative energy that is highly needed for tasks like writing code, designing, strategizing etc. We believe best of both worlds is possible! While our brains have an amazing ability to switch context, it leads to a 40% drop in productive time (ping me if you're interested in research around it). Loss in productive time -> Long working hours (or delays in projects) -> Burnout and unhappiness. Time to fix it. **HOW AEROTIME WORKS** Create Space: At the root, Aerotime tries to minimize context switches. We do this by clubbing similar meetings together, which creates large chunks of time available for deep work within working hours. Prioritize: On the space created, we help you visualize and prioritize your tasks by bringing them on calendar as time blocks. Commit: To make sure you commit to the task in hand - which is called being in flow: - We snooze Slack notifications during that time curbing external distractions - We give you focus music options that help in curbing internal distractions Track: Analytics on time fragmentation, burn out and other flow metrics to help you retrospect and improve. **REQUEST FROM PH COMMUNITY** We're only 8 weeks old, so we request you to try out the product, give us feedback which will help us shape the product in the right direction. Together, let's be effective and not just busy. 💪 Join the waitlist, we open up seats every 7 days and personally onboard our users to make sure they are setup for success. For PH community, it is 2 weeks free trial and then 20% off for 1 year.

Been using this for a while now and have found the service to be incredibly useful. If deep work matters to you and your team then try Aerotime out. @piyush_narwani - what other new features can we expect over the next couple of months?

We're big believers in async work at Kitemaker and having big blocks of time for deep work is crucial for this. I think Aerotime is really onto something here. Especially people working in management in big organizations need to try it out 😁

Congrats @piyush_narwani @goeldhru . Looking forward to using Aerotime on outlook :)

damn i need this.

Slick, looks like it has a clean user experience!

Great work @piyush_narwani and team! Have been using this product for past couple of months. Love the feature that mutes Slack notifications during focus hours. Highly recommend for anyone whose days run by calendar!

great stuff @piyush_narwani! such an effective tool!

Looking forward to checking it out. Addresses a very important problem, my calendar is full of holes. Best of luck @piyush_narwani, @goeldhru.

This looks awesome! Constantly looking for ways to improve my remote workflow and free up time for longer working session. Thanks for sharing.

Does this rearrange meetings for all of the others involved at the same time, say 15 people (which is perhaps what my calendar looks like)? Once you start traversing that graph, I have to imagine that it starts to get a bit complicated in trying to arrange the calendars for even more. I see the value in creating blocks of time (one could create a company culture around this), but how well does this work when you have a company of more than a couple of people's calendars to update?

Cool concept! I've seen products that try to tackle parts of this (like focusing work time by snoozing notifications) - but I love that you bring multiple parts together with grouping meetings, focus music, etc. Congrats on your launch!

Such a cool concept! I end up spending 15-20 mins every morning dedicatedly and than many uncountable minutes more during the day just trying to move meetings around, trying to free up time for some solo work. Can't wait to use this product!

Congrats Piyush! I've been using Aerotime for the last few weeks and it's brilliant!!

Huge believer of focus time and there’s no other app that does this well except Aerotime! Give it a try and see it for yourself

I literally need this exact product SO BADLY! Very impressed with Piyush and cant wait until they roll it out for smaller teams

Aero time has helped create a forcing functions on my calendar. I take time off to practice deep work and also get great visibility into how to utilize my time better. Looking forward to starting these guys off on a pilot at our company to bring these efficiencies to all team members. Works on my GCal, so set up was very straightforward. Give this product a spin if you care about your time!

Aerotime helped us save time and provided uninterrupted focus hours where the team members could focus on deep work that enabled us to move with a higher velocity. Great work team @aerotime and @piyush_narwani

This is awesome!!! So glad and proud to see it here! 🔥🔥🚀🚀

Great product guys. The demo video was very riveting. Does it work with all calendars?