Timely - Pull your calendar availability in 3 seconds
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Pull your availability from connected calendars, with a single keystroke, within whichever timezone suits your recipient best.
No opening the calendar, no timezone maths, and it handles multiple execs too.
It's completely private and sits locally on your machine, connecting only to Outlook and Google.
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Keychain is the right call. The gotcha we hit doing client-side token storage with no backend was Google rotating the refresh token on some refreshes, so if you don't persist the new one atomically before the old is invalidated you can lock the user out with only a full re-auth to recover. Do you handle that rotation, and do multiple Google accounts get separate keychain entries or share one?
This is the boring problem I hit every week — Calendly feels like homework for the person I'm inviting, so a plain-text 'here are my slots' paste is exactly the day-one workflow I'd want. Does it pull from more than one calendar at once (work + personal) so it never offers a slot I'm secretly busy in, and when it converts to the recipient's timezone is that baked into the pasted text or does the reader have to trust I did the math? Also curious whether the pasted times come out as plain text or clickable.
the calendly comparison you made is the right framing, calendly puts the work on the other person and plenty of clients read that as impersonal. curious about the EA use case you mentioned, when an assistant pulls availability on behalf of a principal, does the output text make that clear to the recipient, or does it read exactly like the principal typed it themselves
@james_ketteringham buffers between meetings is exactly the detail that separates this from just reading raw calendar gaps. good to hear it's already handled, that's the thing that usually gets bolted on later as a v2 feature.
Dope product! Timezone feature especially. So far I'm assuming this is for individuals to use but I feel like it could have some good potential in managing teams for businesses with employees who have multiple different calendars too.