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Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by kaiwetzel »

jkahn wrote: post #40
jkahn wrote: post #29

I'm a business guy that has a lot of meetings. Why would I use this and not Outlook?

I'm surprised I haven't had an answer to this. I thought I was the target market. This looks like an inferior web based edition of Exchange/Outlook functionality. It was a serious question - is there an advantage to using this? If not, you might need to do some market research to better target the problem you are trying to solve.

From the short presentation on the home page I did not get the impression that you (a current exchange/outlook user) are the target market, actually. (But I could of course be wrong or we got a different branch of an A/B test)

I think the examples are pointing in a different direction, i.e. a simple and straightforward tool to help you juggle daily life with a focus on spontaneously rearranging tasks, rather than fixed business meetings and scheduling events for teams even.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by Sukotto »

ramupatil wrote: post #37

buddy, you need to go to drawing board again. As a user, at this moment, it is of no use to me. Complete it then share with others. IMHO, it is incomplete. Let people feel privileged to give opinion about your work. People reading this site are serious. Wish you luck.

Downvoted.

I read your comment as condescending and I strongly disagree with your advice for the OP to complete the app before asking for feedback.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by greengirl512 »

eitland wrote: post #28
kloncks wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sebastian is great. But I'd also just start contacting literally every news blog you can think of. TechCrunch, TheNextWeb, GigaOm, CenterNetworks, ReadWriteWeb, everyone. What can you lose ;) ? And just getting one of those will get you a lot of hits.

What can you lose ;) ? Mostly agree, wouldn't like to get all attention at once, thoug.

I reviewed it on Useful Tools: http://www.usefultools.com/2011/04/plan-your-day/

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by fragmede »

chetan51 wrote: post #5
csomar wrote: post #3

This is a great start to solve the calendar and time management problem. Here are a few points. 1. The Mobile App will be a killer feature. I'm not in front of the computer 24/7, but my mobile is. It's faster and quicker to take my mobile and start typing. 2. Your App works for daily usage. However, I can plan things on the morning but I can also plan them a day or more before that. There is a need that your app acco…

Thanks for your feedback! 1. Yes, I will definitely be making a mobile version of the app. Maybe it can be part of a paid plan? 2. You can actually already plan any day of the calendar. Just click on the date of the agenda to edit it. 3. Yup, another great idea I plan on implementing in the near future.

> 2. You can actually already plan any day of the calendar. Just click on the date of the agenda to edit it.

Put little arrows around the date to indicate that it's not static.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by fragmede »

This is quite good.

I look forwards to todo integration.

I'd add that forcing a item to start at '4' probably shouldn't default to 4am.

Start with one-way gcal into Timeslot - things I've scheduled into my calendar are less likely to be movable since there are other people involved.

I quite like the simplicity of the UI, but there needs to be more signaling in the UI that things are editable - the date, especially. I did not think I could edit it until after I tried editing the URL.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by chetan51 »

tomstuart wrote: post #36

Looks interesting, but I don't want to sign up just to try it out. Have you considered a demo mode where you can fill an empty schedule, or edit a prefilled one, without being able to save changes? That's how I'd decide whether I was interested enough to give you my email address, generate a password, etc.

Good idea. How about replacing the big screenshot slideshow on the landing page with a smaller, interactive agenda that is pre-filled with some items that you can edit / add to?

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by chetan51 »

fragmede wrote: post #47

This is quite good. I look forwards to todo integration. I'd add that forcing a item to start at '4' probably shouldn't default to 4am. Start with one-way gcal into Timeslot - things I've scheduled into my calendar are less likely to be movable since there are other people involved. I quite like the simplicity of the UI, but there needs to be more signaling in the UI that things are editable - the date, especially. I…

Thanks for the feedback, you're quite right. I'll make it more obvious that everything is editable.

Re: Show HN: Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze

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Post by chetan51 »

jkahn wrote: post #29

I'm a business guy that has a lot of meetings. Why would I use this and not Outlook?

Meetings are fixed events that work well in something like Outlook (so you should definitely use it for that). But for planning an entire day, hour by hour, it's hard to plan in Outlook, and making small changes is very difficult when every item / event is steadfastly fixed, even though you don't particularly care about when it happens.

In short, Outlook is great for keeping track of fixed events and appointments, and Timeslot would be great for planning the things you need to do in a given day, hour by hour.

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