@michaelselepec First impression, 10 seconds in. Use case: Scheduling dinner with a couple of friends. After clicking "schedule time" it asks me to pick from my contacts. I don't have the email of all these people as they are real-life, non-business friends. I would much prefer to just get a link to send them, that I can paste into Facebook messenger, Whatsapp etc.
@Smutchings We'd love to hear how you envisioned building a product to address the pains with scheduling. Feel free to shoot me an email michael@pick.co
Co-founder here. We are very excited to launch Pick! Our goal is to once and for all eliminate the "back and forth" that often occurs when trying to find a time to meet with your contacts. In addition, we want to make it much easier and seamless for people to create and send meeting invites from their mobile phone instead of the desktop. We also want to make it easy for Pick users to share their availability with non-users and is why we offer personalized Pick URL's (e.g. pick.co/yourname).
Below is how our product differentiates from the rest of the products in our space:
-Display mutual availabilities
-Mobile app
-Seamless and effortless event creation via mobile (most people create and send invites via desktop)
-Personalized Pick URL (e.g. pick.co/yourname)
I look forward to hearing from all of you and all of the great feedback that often comes from the Product Hunt community!
-Michael
michael@pick.co
I'm a huge fan of calendar and planning efficiency so the direction is great! One issue I see with this is that it really works well for users who literally use their calendar to markup their ENTIRE DAY by the hour. I use my calendar often but when I don't have an event in my calendar, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm free. If that can be tackled it would be great, especially with the clean UI going on.
Check out @canarycalendar by @varunfive as it used to solve that issue really well before that last update.
Always love another good time saver for scheduling. I've been using Assitant.to since it was on ProductHunt a little while ago: http://www.producthunt.com/posts.... Curious to hear other people's thoughts on Pick and how it compares. I love the fact that Assitant.to is built into my gmail.
@fletchrichman We feel that there are some limitations to a product that only lives in email. The main limitation is that these products are unable to display "mutual availabilities" as where with Pick you can. Another large limitation is that we think it will be difficult for scheduling products that live in email to expand to other platforms such as Exchange and iCloud, currently these products only work in Gmail. Pick will be platform agnostic and support all major email providers.
@michaelselepec i agree, but for the 1-to-1 meetings though the mutual availabilities isn't an issue. i'd love to see pick integrate into gmail, that combined with the ability to schedule with multiple people at once would make it a must have product (that I would pay for)
@tymrtn Currently we support multiple Google accounts. In the near future we will support Exchange and iCloud accounts. Stay tuned!
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Looks cool. However, I cannot sign up with my gmail account (already logged in). It says "If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."
I am excited to try this out. I've struggled with all of the ones in terms of being seem less like Boomerang calendar and assistant.to. Does this require the other person to have the app / service to be effective?
@obenyoung In order to see mutual availabilities with your contacts, all attendees of the event must be on Pick. At the same time, you as a user still get to see your availability and schedule a meeting with non-users. Until our user-base grows significantly we feel that our personalized URL's (e.g. pick.co/benjamin) and the ability to easily create and send invites from your mobile phone are huge value props.
@michaelselepec I grabbed pick.co/ben - I never get Ben! That alone could allow you to See a scramble on digital real estate. It's scary how easy you can change it once you set it. I almost didn't believe I get Ben...
@michaelselepec I think there is a bug because I went to pick.co/Ben didn't see any indication that it was mine.. Scheduled some suggested time and finally saw a small pic of what does not appear to be me, and inside your app it says I have Ben...
Hey Hunters! I wanted to let everyone know that Pick will soon be releasing support for Microsoft O365 & Exchange. Sign up here to be notified once it's released: pick.co/microsoft
As always feel free to reach out to us with any questions or feedback. Happy Scheduling!
-Michael
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