Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
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Re: Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
#2I wish this existed years ago when I had to figure out how to programmatically send out calendar invites. There were some quirks with how Outlook handled them vs Google Calendar and it was a time-consuming trial-and-error process.
Congrats on shipping!
Re: Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
#3Nice 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 going to happen, but with this API you're saying "here's an event, just pick your own timezone!"
Nice idea though, it'll be interesting to see how it develops.
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#5Where will this be useful? I don't understand the use case
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#6In the famous words of patio11: Charge more!
(There also is outdated pricing information in your docs)
One thing that would make this really useful is a frontend widget that abstracts away many of the common complexities that arise and right now still have to be learned by everyone using this API. E.g. learning how to correctly construct recurring events and implementing a minimal UI for it would still be a pain even with this API. Algolia and their instantsearch.js (and React, etc.) packages are a great example for that where you get the faceting display logic for free.
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#7If you’re looking for an alternative approach, I built this Add To Calendar Ruby Gem[0] which generates URLs for all the common Calendar platforms. There’s also this reference repo[1] which helps explains how to build your own and lists some other libraries in various languages.
[0] https://github.com/jaredlt/add_to_calendar
[1] https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/add-event-to-...
Re: Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
#8"Check the docs" button link on the landing page seems to be broken. All the best to the project!
Re: Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
#9If you’re looking for an alternative approach, I built this Add To Calendar Ruby Gem[0] which generates URLs for all the common Calendar platforms. There’s also this reference repo[1] which helps explains how to build your own and lists some other libraries in various languages. [0] https://github.com/jaredlt/add_to_calendar [1] https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/add-event-to-...
This looks really useful. Any similar Libs. For Elixir or Javascript?
Re: Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
#10Not to put the project down or anything, but if you already have the ability to send transactional email, does this offer anything beyond what you could do with whatever library to generate ics attachments? Or even just generate links for various calendars? https://www.npmjs.com/package/calendar-link
What would make me definitely use this are frontend components too, like a calendar component (e.g. Vuetify's one), or especially a Calendly-like self-scheduler like the ones offered by Nylas or Kloudless, but at that point it's basically a totally different product.