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Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by ernestipark » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:43 AM UTC

mikeknoop wrote: post #6

ernestipark wrote: post #4

This is a great idea. I'd definitely use it... IF it had a key feature that I think it's missing. I envision myself using something like this to plan a meeting. So say I'm a boss and I want to see when my employees are free. Right now as the site stands, they all send me their "thesetimes" and then I have to look at each one and then figure out where the free time slots are. What it should be is that as a boss, I sen…

I have a middle of the road solution, what if the site had a feature where you could paste multiple unique "thesetimes" URLs and it would show you a resultant figure with only the overlapped areas?

Although this is definitely a solution, the usage case I detailed in my original post seems much more likely (at least to me). I see your idea useful in the case that many of your groups/circles of friends use it and you just make one for the week and send it out to anyone who wants to organize an event. Whatever you end up doing though, just think about the most common usage cases and how to best implement to suit those cases.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by chetan51 » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:55 AM UTC

Whoa, this is exactly an idea I had for Timeslot, the day planner app I posted on HN yesterday. Nice job, you beat me to it :)

It's a good idea, and this is a great start. Things that would make this invaluable:

- The ability to combine multiple schedules together to find free time overlaps (so that, for example, three people can find a good time to meet during the week)

- User accounts, so users can search for their friends by name and schedule meet ups

- Ability to extend before 6am and past 9pm at the click of a button

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by minhajuddin » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 6:13 AM UTC

I was actually planning to build something like this for a different purpose. I am a freelancer and wanted to use it to tell other people "when I am online". The app would basically do the same, but convert the timezones properly to the users timezone. So, if anyone asks me when I am online I could just give them a link and they would be able to see the times localized to their timezones.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by godinaa » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 6:20 AM UTC

minhajuddin wrote: post #13

I was actually planning to build something like this for a different purpose. I am a freelancer and wanted to use it to tell other people "when I am online". The app would basically do the same, but convert the timezones properly to the users timezone. So, if anyone asks me when I am online I could just give them a link and they would be able to see the times localized to their timezones.

Building a timezone friendly version is something I hadn't considered, but I like this idea. Embracing internationalization is most often beneficial. This functionality is something that I could see implementing.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by nopassrecover » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 6:27 AM UTC

Some tags/different colours would be cool. Also there's a bit of a mouse bug if you click on one column, drag, then reclick on another in the same sort of motion (you get two columns/days drawing at the same time).

Would be useful to have some borders or something too (I had no idea where to click or what I was dragging first go).

Nevertheless, conceptually it's sound.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by babyshake » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 7:41 AM UTC

My feature request is to bind touch swipe events. I tried this from my ipad and it didn't work. I know jQuery mobile ships with a swipe event - http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a4.1/#docs/api/events.html

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by thatusertwo » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 8:10 AM UTC

Would be cool to put some sort of label on time sections. Editable ones that is.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by whatusername » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 8:45 AM UTC

godinaa wrote: post #10

bluespace wrote: post #9

I would really enjoy: * Syncing with google calendar * being able to add tags, and/or labels. * different colors. However I do like the simplicity of it all.

Simplicity is the key. Tags and labels may make it heavy and overwhelming. Syncing with Google Calendar sounds promising, but I like the idea of exporting to .ics so that it would cover more applications. (though I do love GoogleCal) I've also considered the different colors idea, and this might be implemented if I decide to build something like a comparator of schedules. Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Definitely colours.

Work != play and it's nice to see the difference at a glance.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by almost » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 9:52 AM UTC

Cool app, I like how you're doing one very simple thing in an easy to understand way.

I've found a bug: when I set a load of times on the calendar then click the "permalink" link it sometimes loses the last few times I set. I guess it takes a moment to sync and get a new permalink or something.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by ta3892682334 » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 1:32 PM UTC

I'm sure you are working towards a competing product but just in case you aren't google apps calendar can share a schedule minus the details and as an admin (of apps) I can click on each employees calendar and overlay each calendar so I can quickly see an exact time.

- I agree with others though that being able to create a user account is a must (from there if I have a repeating schedule I could copy my times from last week for example).

- And for an admin being able to easily overlay all of the calendars is a must.

Lastly I read as a last resort, as I suspect of others, so I would give some visual indicator that you have to drag as I didn't immediately get it. Lastly