Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers

Post by jagged-chisel » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 1:23 PM UTC

hairofadog wrote: post #66

matsemann wrote: post #51

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Yes, I'm not trying to claim that AM/PM is ambiguous, but that me as a person not used to the system (basically everyone except US and a few other countries) have no idea which is which. :)

A native Floridian once told me that the New Year's fireworks display would be starting at “12 PM”. Confused about why they’d be shooting off fireworks in the middle of the day I said, “12 PM!?” She rolled her eyes and made air quotes with her fingers and said, “Well, AM ”, as if I was being extremely pedantic. To her, AM meant morning and PM meant night. Having worked on the UI of an event-related service, I can say…

Post by josimuddin » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:36 AM UTC

Post by dave_sid » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 6:35 PM UTC

matsemann wrote: post #38

johnorourke wrote: post #3

Nice idea, but seems to lack timezone awareness, which puts me off completely. Maybe that's being developed, but the American date format with no timezone being described as "English textual" (say what?!) seems to be ignoring all the standards for date and time (eg. RFC3339[1]), yet other parts of the docs clearly show awareness of RFCs! If you're pushing events to people, presumably you know exactly when they're goi…

Yes, I don't understand american/English dates and time. I don't know when "04/06/2019 09:00 PM" is. Is it April or June? 0900 or 2100? Let me send an ISO8601 time as all other APIs accept.

Post by dexterdog » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 8:07 PM UTC

rosywoozlechan wrote: post #79

dexterdog wrote: post #74

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The problem is $9/mo is way too much for something like this unless you are using it heavily.

^^ This the kind of user you don't want. Someone who uses your service but thinks you're charging too much. You have to ignore customers like this who demand that you charge something that won't feed your employees, because there will be enough customers that will pay what you want, or you just don't have product market fit.