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We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by rickpastoor »

danielovichdk wrote: post #12

Every time someone wants to sell me a calendar, another todo list or an optimizer for my time, I will try to tell them, that software is not going to help me. Spending and planning your time is a mental proces that has very little to do with typing things into a calendar. A calendar is a great tool for organizing your appointments and a reminder to go to a certain meeting. But as soon as you try to couple it with bei…

Thanks for sharing. For tons of people using your calendar to actually schedule work is a new concept (probably not for you and most people here). In my experience it can be very powerful to map out your work and see that you're fully booked and need to start making different decisions.

Looking forward to bring something delightful and with a fresh perspective to guide that process.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by arkitaip »

danielovichdk wrote: post #12

Every time someone wants to sell me a calendar, another todo list or an optimizer for my time, I will try to tell them, that software is not going to help me. Spending and planning your time is a mental proces that has very little to do with typing things into a calendar. A calendar is a great tool for organizing your appointments and a reminder to go to a certain meeting. But as soon as you try to couple it with bei…

Be careful what you wish for; before you know it, someone is instead selling you an entire framework for work and that is infinitely worse than any single office productivity app.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by easton »

Do that many people hate the Outlook calendar? I like it (maybe a bit less in OWA, but honestly it's pretty much the same). Appointments show up, meeting rooms are pre-populated, I can see when other people are busy when writing an invite and move the meeting (or reconsider if it needs to happen at all). Oh, and when people email me invites they show up in my calendar, which doesn't work nearly as well when your calendar can't see your mailbox. Google Calendar is also fine (if a bit less comfortable).

It's not a task list, but that's a problem for Trello or something, not a calendar. (Outlook has a task list, but I'm not a big fan of it). Anything that doesn't involve meeting with other people or me being in a different location for a period of time doesn't go in a calendar. If I need to block to do deep work, I can just put a big block on the calendar and go to the task list to figure out what I need to do (and the task list probably has some sort of prioritization, anyway).

We need better productivity apps, but the calendar seems like a solved problem (unless I'm desperately out of touch and everyone hates Outlook/GCal).

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by dukeofdoom »

danielovichdk wrote: post #12

Every time someone wants to sell me a calendar, another todo list or an optimizer for my time, I will try to tell them, that software is not going to help me. Spending and planning your time is a mental proces that has very little to do with typing things into a calendar. A calendar is a great tool for organizing your appointments and a reminder to go to a certain meeting. But as soon as you try to couple it with bei…

As a developer of a calendar app, that I never myself use...

A month is too long of a span. I think optimizing the next week, or next 3 days, is much more concrete and beneficial. Its long enough to shuffle things around, and short enough to make realistic goals and to do lists.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by z5h »

rickpastoor wrote: post #17
benrbray wrote: post #16

Am I missing something or does this product page have no information about / images of the actual product? I guess the point is to generate buzz but this kind of marketing dishonesty is unwelcome. When I see something like this, I get the impression that the people who made it are looking to squeeze every last penny out of their customers once the product is popular enough. I don't get the impression that they are a…

The reason for sharing our thinking early is actually a way to gather feedback at the point in time where we're able to include it in the product. But I totally see your perspective and probably won't be able to convince you of our intentions, which is fine :)

If you haven’t built an MVP and used it, how can you be sure it’s revolutionary or even viable?

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by rickpastoor »

z5h wrote: post #25
rickpastoor wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason for sharing our thinking early is actually a way to gather feedback at the point in time where we're able to include it in the product. But I totally see your perspective and probably won't be able to convince you of our intentions, which is fine :)

If you haven’t built an MVP and used it, how can you be sure it’s revolutionary or even viable?

We're not sure, we'll find out if it meets our high expectations :)

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by candiddevmike »

Another plug for a calendar tool focused on consumers: Domestica. Instead of just being a calendar tool, Domestica focuses on integrating all the things in Domestica (events, meal plans, to dos, recurring transactions, etc) into a meta calendar view.

https://about.domestica.app

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by [deleted] »

danielovichdk wrote: post #12

Every time someone wants to sell me a calendar, another todo list or an optimizer for my time, I will try to tell them, that software is not going to help me. Spending and planning your time is a mental proces that has very little to do with typing things into a calendar. A calendar is a great tool for organizing your appointments and a reminder to go to a certain meeting. But as soon as you try to couple it with bei…

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Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by mgkimsal »

benrbray wrote: post #16

Am I missing something or does this product page have no information about / images of the actual product? I guess the point is to generate buzz but this kind of marketing dishonesty is unwelcome. When I see something like this, I get the impression that the people who made it are looking to squeeze every last penny out of their customers once the product is popular enough. I don't get the impression that they are a…

If they had a bunch of screenshots of something that didn't exist yet, would that make you feel better? I thought one of the big lessons from startups was to talk to potential users/customers to discover and validate problems before jumping in to code. They seem to be trying a variation - putting out a scenario, and seeing who reacts to it. If people sign up, and they get some engagements from people with more problem validation, then build based on that... what's wrong?

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by throwawaygulf »

The amount of left coast tech types who've never used Outlook is astounding.

Entire boutique solutions arise around features and ideas that were implemented over a decade ago by Microsoft.

So many Golang developers I know have never been exposed to Active Directory, Exchange, etc. It's scary.

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