I didn't know no-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 came 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 watches your calendar. If it notices the other person didn't show up, it asks if you want help rescheduling - automatically, inside the same thread.
When you're running 10k sales calls a month and 15-40% don't show, recovering even 1-5% is hundreds of meetings saved and potential $$$s.
Other lesson, talk to people as if you want and expect nothing in return.

Hey all - I see a lot of posts here (and even more on Reddit + founder forums) about working with influencers and creators. Why? Well, they control attention, and we all need it!

I used to run creators at adidas (there it s anyone from an artist to an athlete to an influencer). After that I was at TikTok (where creators = the product - without them, the algo has nothing to match).

I 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 already.

• 375 invites sent out so far...

One of the best things about VCs and accelerators is that they bring founders together - which often leads to collaboration, cross-sell, and unexpected product ideas.

But Product Hunt can do that too.

There s a lot you end up thinking about as a startup founder.

Success, doom... and the question that connects those dots:

I have a feeling this one *might hit different* for some of you.

I ve been thinking a lot about what I call the founder shadow.

Self-centred update today, but adding the top Product Hunt badge to our site felt real good. See bottom right of image, also online here: meet-ting.com

Thanks again, gives us pride and satisfaction.

Hey all,

It s that time of year where if you re not writing a year ahead post, then what are you even doing?

We 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 everywhere" strategy. Our native Outlook integration is live.