Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

convier.me

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 87 posts

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

#21

Post by yalooze »

RyJones wrote: post #11
yalooze wrote: post #7

If 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-...

I commented on one of your issues about all-day events; it's interesting what a hack supporting them is.

Thank you! Yeah, the ics / iCalendar part of it has a spec[0] and is reasonably easy to deal with. But Google, Yahoo and Outlook Web/Office 365 all have their own take on URL construction which can be painful!

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545

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

#22

Post by sverhagen »

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…

But then in the Event section, there's a timezone ID and some talk about local time of the calendar. Maybe the other sections are behind :(

https://convier.me/docs/latest/event-component

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

#26

Post by mikaelcarlavan »

paraknight wrote: post #10

Not 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…

In fact, not all languages have a library as simple as the Node package you are pointing at. Most libraries require you to use the iCalendar standard syntax which, for a single event, is accessible but becomes complicated for a recurring event for example.

But for the Node package you mentioned, you are absolutely right.

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

#27

Post by mikaelcarlavan »

rosywoozlechan wrote: post #12

You may not want to offer a free version. Freeloaders don't convert and they become a support burden whether or not you offer support to them. Once you want to shut off the free version, which you will, you're going to make those people who used your thing and didn't value it enough to pay you for it mad. They wont convert, they'll just get toxic, because they'll feel entitled to your free service. A free option isn'…

Thank you for your comment. Defining the price and associated features was really not easy for me; I hesitated for a long time but you gave me some very good leads!

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

#28

Post by mikaelcarlavan »

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…

Thank you for your comment. There is indeed the possibility to specify the timezone, but the documentation is obviously not detailed enough on that. I'll clarify that.
Post reply on HN