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Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning

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Post by ilancreates »

Hey Hacker News!

To test implementing AI (and paywalls tbh) in software for the first time, I made this simple calendar creator (no mail address required) that lets a person create a calendar based on his needs and availability and export it to his calendar app, pdf or receive a daily newsletter with his daily tasks (and more).

After wrestling with different models (f.e. with huggingface) and encountering different problems, I decided to use ChatGPT's models, tune them a little and see how the result works out. ChatGPT's low price enables me to give users the opportunity to create calendars for free and without a mail address required.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared

The website/tool includes:

- Creating your calendar based on a title, date range and a description

- Editing and "polishing" the calendar until getting a desired result

- Exporting the calendar to your calendar app (can be Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, etc...)

- Exporting the calendar to PDF

- Signing up for a daily newsletter that contains a user's daily tasks, reminders, special ai notes and more!

Some technical stuff:

- I am using firestore database and paypal payments

- I am always using the latest-fastest ChatGPT AI model (as generation-time is really important here)

- The website is created with Nuxt 3 (Nuxt for vuejs is what Next is for reactjs) and designed with tailwindcss

Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning
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Re: Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning

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Post by ilancreates »

Hey! My name's Ilan.

First of all, thanks for reading the whole thing above. I am coding for at least 7 years now (I don't really remember when I started) but I started creating SaaS only about couple of months ago. So, the whole marketing thing is a problem for me. If you find any problem in the product or have suggestions - I'll be super happy to here!

I really don't love sign-ups and slow user experience, so I tried my website to have neither of them. Hope I succeeded.

Re: Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning

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Post by Mathnerd314 »

I looked into doing something like this and I was like "Todoist has AI, Notion has AI, how am I going to do any better than them?" So I didn't start. At this point I have specific prompts for ChatGPT and when I need this functionality I manually copy/paste them in and copy/paste the output into the todo apps.

Even after trying the site, I still don't think you have a marketable product, but kudos for shipping. I hope to see you back in a year with "How I made 1 million dollars shipping SaaS apps" blog post. ;-)

Re: Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning

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Post by 8mobile »

It is not very clear how the ai will help me with this app. Does it create a planner for me based on the task I want to perform? Does it produce a calendar or something else? It is a software. If you can explain in a video how to use it. Thanks

Re: Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning

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Post by ilancreates »

8mobile wrote: post #5

It is not very clear how the ai will help me with this app. Does it create a planner for me based on the task I want to perform? Does it produce a calendar or something else? It is a software. If you can explain in a video how to use it. Thanks

Hey, I linked to the sign up but maybe it is clearer at the main domain: https://calendarplusai.com

The app creates calendars (which are daily-todos basically. Creates tasks for each day) based on your title and description which are later exportable. Try using the tool and you'll understand quickly what it does.

Video: https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared

Re: Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning

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Post by ilancreates »

pimlottc wrote: post #4

I don’t understand this at all. How is this going to help me create a calendar? It says it will send me tasks - what tasks? The website needs a lot more explanation.

Hey, did you try to use the tool? With description and title, it fills all the days within a date range you give with daily tasks, that match the description and title you want.

There is a video: https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared

Re: Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning

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Post by ilancreates »

Mathnerd314 wrote: post #3

I looked into doing something like this and I was like "Todoist has AI, Notion has AI, how am I going to do any better than them?" So I didn't start. At this point I have specific prompts for ChatGPT and when I need this functionality I manually copy/paste them in and copy/paste the output into the todo apps. Even after trying the site, I still don't think you have a marketable product, but kudos for shipping. I hope…

Thank you very much! To be honest, it began as a training exercise for me to learn how to ship SaaS and implement AI in it. It did get some attraction online so I wanted to push it a little. Anyways, thank you for your honesty! Appreciate it!
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