Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
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Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#62Then I can pretty much show what I want - so it's easy to set up a rotating dashboard with the weather, my calendar, TFL alerts, whatever.
Why doesn't this exist?!
Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#63Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#64I love these kind of projects. But what I'd like is slightly bigger than kindle e-ink display that shows a webpage of my choice. And I'd like it to run off mains power. Then I can pretty much show what I want - so it's easy to set up a rotating dashboard with the weather, my calendar, TFL alerts, whatever. Why doesn't this exist?!
Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#65I love these kind of projects. But what I'd like is slightly bigger than kindle e-ink display that shows a webpage of my choice. And I'd like it to run off mains power. Then I can pretty much show what I want - so it's easy to set up a rotating dashboard with the weather, my calendar, TFL alerts, whatever. Why doesn't this exist?!
I could draw my calendar on the left, the weather in one corner and todo list in another.
Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#66The wood bezel is kind of ugly & cheap looking. The audience for this is likely to be tech people and users who want to show off their calendar or manage their time with calendar invites. I think this could do well with a more contemporary frame. You could market it to people as a solution to forgetting meetings; the price would have to be low enough (sub $100) to trigger people’s impulse buying. The lower the price…
Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#67I love these kind of projects. But what I'd like is slightly bigger than kindle e-ink display that shows a webpage of my choice. And I'd like it to run off mains power. Then I can pretty much show what I want - so it's easy to set up a rotating dashboard with the weather, my calendar, TFL alerts, whatever. Why doesn't this exist?!
can you open that webpage in 10 in or 13 inch eink devices ? Plenty of them out there. I even watch youtube videos on mine.
Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#68Then if this is for office users who schedule lots of meetings...
If this is a product which is intended to be used in a corporate environment, the fact it is missing Exchange support (or at least that this is not stated) is a huge gap for most people.
Additionally is this thing a touch screen? Like if a new meeting appears can I accept it on this device or do I need to go and get another device just to accept the meeting?
And if I have a meeting at 6am does it shrink the time to show it? How about all-day meetings, do they show up at the top? (Sometimes I have a combination of all-day meetings with other meetings throughout the day).
Can I click on the meeting and see more details? My calendar is full of lots of ones called "Catch up - X and Y" and it looks like the later part of the meeting name might be truncated so I would need to have the option to either see attendees or who it is with. So I conclude that this probably isn't for someone with lots of meetings, unless it's mainly for novelty.
Then if it's for a person who doesn't have that many meetings... the price is a little high.
It looks like a great product, it just feels like it needs to work out the problem it's trying to solve a little bit so then you can walk back to the features you need to implement. It risks being a product which is more about novelty than about being something usable in the long term. I know the page says home and office, but you might be better picking one and working out what building a really great product for that single user category means.