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Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by ianhorn »

mgkimsal wrote: post #29
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 proble…

A bunch of mock-ups of something that doesn’t exist doesn’t seem any worse than a description of the same.

The problem is that the startup and the consumers have totally different goals. Misleading marketing is always better for the company than consumers. And it really does seem misleading in this case, even implying internationally acclaimed design! There’s a lot of “Rise is” rather than “We hope Rise will be.” That’s why everyone’s getting confused.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by kthejoker2 »

As someone who has something on the order of 20-30 meetings a week, time management and preparedness are a critical path for success.

Here's some free "customer problems" that I would love a calendar product to address.

* Meetings without stated purposes and expected outcomes - even if it just said "we're spitballing around Topic X and we just want ideas on the next hill to take", that would be so helpful to enforce upon creation and then sharing as part of the "upcoming meeting" notifications, upon forwarding to others, etc. Everything starts with "why."

* Helping me "prepare" for those meetings by finding useful context (Outlook/Teams has started doing this, by the way, it's kinda eh now but I expect it to be fairly awesome and "just work" in the next couple of years because the problem and solution are fairly clear, but the integrations with data sources will take time - see Project Cortex as a path forward for this within orgs, but for external meetings ...?)

* Letting me have "flexible" meetings where if something comes in that's a conflict, giving me options to auto-address the conflict (move meeting, cancel) or provide options and let me manually confirm.

* Again, Microsoft is working on this, but I think some kind of - even extremely basic - graph / mindmap view of a meeting and its context - kind of like a visual syllabus or bulletin board so you can see how this meeting fits into a larger project / initiative

But also, the biggest one by far would be instituting ways to generate "time affluence" - I need "SEIZE THE DAY"-style interventions!

https://behavioralscientist.org/time-confetti-and-the-broken...

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by neogodless »

easton wrote: post #23

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 cale…

I usually really like Outlook, but it does seem to behave poorly when used with certain servers. For example G Suite / Google Work calendar is very... weird with Outlook. It's not seamless, and I tend to get reminders for things that happened weeks or months ago on a recurring schedule that I cannot find and remove.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by XCSme »

satvikpendem wrote: post #11

This is very interesting, I'm building something similar, an open source todo list + calendar at https://getartemis.app . I also had the same issues with todo lists and calendars. They don't communicate with each other. A calendar treats events as the main abstraction when in reality I want it to treat tasks as the main abstraction. When tasks are main, a lot of problems with todo lists are solved, especially the lac…

Nice landing page, but I am missing the "Pricing" section, I would never sign-up to a product that doesn't disclose pricing beforehand.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by satvikpendem »

XCSme wrote: post #54
satvikpendem wrote: post #11

This is very interesting, I'm building something similar, an open source todo list + calendar at https://getartemis.app . I also had the same issues with todo lists and calendars. They don't communicate with each other. A calendar treats events as the main abstraction when in reality I want it to treat tasks as the main abstraction. When tasks are main, a lot of problems with todo lists are solved, especially the lac…

Nice landing page, but I am missing the "Pricing" section, I would never sign-up to a product that doesn't disclose pricing beforehand.

Thanks for the feedback, it's free during beta, but I haven't released that yet so it's just signing up for the email list for now.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by XCSme »

satvikpendem wrote: post #55
XCSme wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice landing page, but I am missing the "Pricing" section, I would never sign-up to a product that doesn't disclose pricing beforehand.

Thanks for the feedback, it's free during beta, but I haven't released that yet so it's just signing up for the email list for now.

Nice, but I would still mention that.

Plus there is no info/ToS regarding submitting the email, for what I know you could just collect emails and sell them.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by mercer »

kthejoker2 wrote: post #52

As someone who has something on the order of 20-30 meetings a week, time management and preparedness are a critical path for success. Here's some free "customer problems" that I would love a calendar product to address. * Meetings without stated purposes and expected outcomes - even if it just said "we're spitballing around Topic X and we just want ideas on the next hill to take", that would be so helpful to enforce…

I'm curious what leads to having that many meetings a week.

For me, even just one meeting on a given day exhausts me, and while the wfh is nice, it's led to many more 'meetings', whether just calls or proper zoom meetups. I'm not a fan.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by satvikpendem »

XCSme wrote: post #56
satvikpendem wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback, it's free during beta, but I haven't released that yet so it's just signing up for the email list for now.

Nice, but I would still mention that. Plus there is no info/ToS regarding submitting the email, for what I know you could just collect emails and sell them.

You're right, I'll have to add that in, I just haven't gotten around to making a ToS yet.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by bramjetten »

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…

To be fair, OP is an author of a best-selling book on this subject. I feel this new app is an extension of that like Things was based on GTD.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Post by Lightbody »

PeterStuer wrote: post #33

All I want from my perfect calendar is that it syncs perfectly with all other calendars that are foisted on me, that all run on different tech stacks (mainly multiple O365 and Google accounts these days) and that presents me with a holistic overal schedule of my time while keeping my different realms (work, family, friends,...) completely silod from each other.

My startup, reclaim.ai, does a lot of that -- except for the O365 part (for now).

We do a special kind of syncing that protects your privacy and if you use Fantastical (which supports Reclaim), it'll intelligently merge the opaque blocks together to make it appear as one.

Give it a shot and let us know what you think :)

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