@irvingtorresyc Thanks for the support and yes we feel that our iOS app along with a few other differentiators separate us from Calendly and similar products.
@irvingtorresyc@swb1192 Try Meekan Scott (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...), we're already offering our global availability engine, syncing Gmail, iCloud and Exchange calendars, on iOS, Android and Outlook. Simplifying scheduling for individuals and groups, free of course :-)
@michaelselepec Very nice work. Pumped to see where it goes. @swb1192, integrating Google calendars and icloud calendars isn't too hard. I did it a while back and it works pretty much the same way once it's set up properly (both icloud and Google Cal update from Apple Calendar and my iOS app) Here is a somewhat long tutorial. Many of these steps are no longer needed (http://macintoshhowto.com/google...). @dvirreznik, Meekan looks really advanced. Might give it a spin as well. Thanks!
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I'm always struggling to find mutual times to meet people, so anything that helps with this is a god send! They've just launched today.
@samuelbeek We completely agree and is one of the main reasons we offer a personalized URL so that early adopters can share their availability with others. We feel that our personalized URL's will really help with the "cold start" problem startups often face.
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@samuelbeek Assistant.to solves this problem quite elegantly. It's shortcoming? Only 1v1 meetings.
@samuelbeek The way we solve that problem at www.producthunt.com/posts/vyte is with a voting system: organizers can suggest several dates and invitees can vote of them.
@edmoyse There are a variety of products trying to tackle all of the issues associated with scheduling meetings and we feel that by offering a product via web and app, opposed to Cc'ing someone like X.ai, that we can be platform agnostic and have a much more seamless user experience.
@edmoyse@michaelselepec I'm a beta user of x.ai and can't imagine going back to anything else - you don't have to have a separate app, you don't have to leave your email, you don't have to even specify how long the meeting is (Amy will assume 45 minutes unless you say otherwise). X.ai doesn't require that anyone else is using it and you don't have to be on a particular platform.
@edmoyse it's awesome! ;-) I think the best scheduling solution we've seen to date, is the $45,000 (human) personal assistant, which you can simply ask to do the job. "Hey Samantha, set something up with Ed end of month, when he is in New York". The only flaw with "Samantha" is that she's an expensive girl. However, if she would work for free or a few bucks a month, I'd love to have her run my calendar. OR if somebody would turn her into an AI. *therein lies my bias :)
@edmoyse I love x.ai. I only use it on my personal email for now, which kind of limits how I can use it. I would love to figure out a way to share access to when I am busy on my work calendar, without giving direct access. I'm always hyper sensitive about security stuff. probably more paranoid then necessary, though!
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I was able to get /matthew so that's always a plus :)
@tsondermann@thetylerhayes Mainly to keep things simple and clean, mobile-first focus and the importance of personalized URL's.
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A few features I would kill for:
1. Ability to limit the hours that I'm available to schedule (Calendly does this). EG- Only available 8am-12pm, 1pm-6pm.
2. As a Google Apps user with read/write access to my coworkers' calendars, I would *love* the ability to:
-A- pull through those calendars into the "Default Calendar" settings (this works with regular Gmail accounts, it seems)
-B- Make those calendars in my GApps org available to the person scheduling the meeting. EG- if a client needs to meet with 3 of 9 team members, they can choose which calendars to compare across, and then choose the time.
3. Ability to hide from Pick any calendar I'm subscribed to. EG- I have some ancillary community calendars under "Other" on my personal GCal, and those events show on "My Availability" but they don't actually conflict with my schedule.
Build a beautiful way to do the above and I'll pay for the Pro subscription tomorrow :)
@ahut All great feedback and thanks for sharing. Below are comments on your feedback:
1. Currently our default time parameters are 8am-8pm. We plan on giving users the ability to edit their availability in the future.
2. Both are great ideas. I just added them to our list of potential features.
3. Another great idea!
We may be hiring soon. Are you looking for a job? ;-)
@ahut Totally agree, the ability to limit the hours that I'm available to schedule is huge @michaelselepec
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Just a word of caution (for people adopting this solution):
1. This app automatically grabs your calendar and puts its availability online at an open URL.
2. Right now, when someone goes to that url, they can "invite" you, which means take up a timeslot on your calendar. No email confirmation, no nothing.
3. They see ALL of your availability. Not specific time slots you've pre-approved.
4. No spam filters
I am in dire need of a solution for this general problem, but this app has launched an MVP to much demand but is seriously lacking some common sense. Hopefully the fact that I don't get to approve someone's request to meet is just a bug.
Pro tip: to remove yourself from this service, delete you calendar connection (once you're signed in). If this is a google calendar, it won't let you log back in without selecting that calendar again. Your link will still work (you can see mine at pick.co/dan) but you won't get calendar invites.
I'll stick with X.ai, Assistant.to, and YouCanBook.Me for now.
I'm so glad I tested this myself before jumping in with clients / teammates (something I rarely do).
I know PH is great for early adopters, but even as a hacker, this is too early. Post again in another month?
Questions I look to answer when evaluataing whether I'll try an app like this:
1. What is the specific innovation (value prop) reducing friction?
2. What kind of effort does my invitee need to put into my new way of scheduling meetings?
I find a lot of scheduling apps are unclear about #1, and I prefer #2 to be minimal.
@jasonhitchcock Thanks for reaching out. Below are answers to your questions;
1. We offer real-time mutual availabilities between Pick users, essentially eliminating the back and forth friction that takes place with every other product. In addition, we have made event creation seamless and near effortless via mobile compared to the very cumbersome experience on desktop and other mobile products.
2. The experience is the same for invitees as current experiences. They receive a meeting invite and respond with accept, decline or maybe to the invite.
Hope this helps and feel free to to let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks!
@0x11ff@toobulkeh great comment, and I think you are absolutely right - that this could potentially be a winner-takes-all market. I am obviously rooting for x.ai :-)
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