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 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.
Ting gives your schedule a brain, so it can make decisions for you.
It’s an AI availability agent that manages your calendar over email and text. You set your goals and preferences, and Ting learns your patterns every time you CC or message it, building AI intuition over time.
Delegate Ting to plan meetings with up to five guests, handling booking, rescheduling, pre-call briefs, and no-shows.
Each week, Ting proactively checks in to help align your calendar with what you want to achieve.
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.
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
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 thread to reschedule is a massive pain. We knew we had to build a way for you to just chat with Ting directly and have it orchestrate all the boring stuff in the background.
We started 1-on-1 emails first, but that felt clunky and slow. The obvious answer for a busy person on the run was WhatsApp. We've had a lot of requests for it, since these days meetings are discussed in many places - not just email, but LinkedIn DMs too.
