Hey Product Hunt 👋

CalChat started because we kept missing events that weren’t neatly added to our calendars—texts from friends, forwarded confirmations, flyers, screenshots, random “remind me Friday” messages. Calendars are powerful, but getting info into them still feels way harder than it should.

We built CalChat to make adding events as easy as sending a text. No forms, no apps to learn—just message it like a person. Along the way, we leaned hard into SMS as the primary interface and focused on making the AI feel genuinely helpful (not robotic).

Would love your feedback—what’s the most annoying way you currently add things to your calendar?

Why We Built CalChat

The Problem

Adding an event to your calendar should take seconds. Instead, it takes minutes.

You get a confirmation email for a doctor's appointment. To add it to your calendar, you have to: open your calendar app, tap create, type the title, scroll to find the right date, set the start time, set the end time, add the location, maybe add a reminder, then save. That's a lot of tapping for information that was already written in the email.

Or someone texts you “dinner Friday at 7?” and you reply “sure”—then forget to add it to your calendar because you were busy. Later, you double-book yourself.

We've all been there. The friction of adding events means we either skip it entirely or spend way too much time on a simple task.

The Idea

What if you could just forward that confirmation email somewhere and the event would appear on your calendar? What if you could text “dinner Friday 7pm at Luigi's” and it would just... work?

That's CalChat.

We built an AI that understands natural language—the way you actually talk and write. It reads your emails, texts, and even photos of event flyers. It extracts the important details and creates a proper calendar event. No forms. No tapping through menus. Just send it and it's done.

How It Works

You get a personal CalChat email address and phone number. Forward emails to it. Text it. Send it photos of posters or invitations. The AI figures out what the event is, when it is, and where it is—then adds it to your calendar.

You can also ask questions: “What do I have tomorrow?” or “Am I free Friday afternoon?” CalChat answers instantly.

It syncs with your existing calendar—Google, Apple, Outlook—so you don't have to change how you view your schedule. Just paste one link and your CalChat events show up alongside everything else.

Our Philosophy

Calendars haven't changed much in decades. They're still digital versions of paper planners—you have to manually enter everything. We think that's backwards.

Your calendar should be smart enough to understand “coffee with Alex next Tuesday.” It should be able to read a confirmation email and know what to do. It should work the way you think, not force you to think the way it works.

That's what we're building.

What's Next

We're just getting started. We're constantly improving the AI to understand more complex requests, handle more languages, and make fewer mistakes. We're adding more integrations and more ways to interact with your calendar naturally.

Our goal is simple: make managing your schedule effortless. If you have ideas or feedback, we'd love to hear from you at hello@calchat.xyz.

— Robert and Ty

What's up Product Hunt 🗓️

We built this because we were tired of the same frustrating cycle: get a text about dinner plans, mean to add it to the calendar, forget, then double-book ourselves. Or stare at a confirmation email and manually tap through 8 fields to create an event that already has all the information right there.

CalChat fixes this. Just forward an email, send a text, or snap a photo of a flyer—the AI extracts the details and adds it to your calendar. No forms, no friction.

We'd love to hear how you currently wrangle your calendar. What's the most annoying event you've had to manually enter?

— Robert