Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#1

Post by godinaa » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 4:08 AM UTC

Howdy HN,

As a small side project, I built a small app to share weekly time schedules. It's been useful for me to help schedule meeting and share semester schedules with friends. I hope some others find some use with it.

I have a few more simple ideas to implement with it, and any suggestions are encouraged.

Thank you!

Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule
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Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#2

Post by imcqueen » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 4:34 AM UTC

a cool feature for this would be if you could send an email to update it. pretty cool though.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#3

Post by godinaa » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 4:37 AM UTC

imcqueen wrote: post #2

a cool feature for this would be if you could send an email to update it. pretty cool though.

It needs some functionality to be able to edit it from a distance and, more importantly, without a mouse. This could be a good way to achieve that.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#4

Post by ernestipark » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 4:59 AM UTC

This is a great idea. I'd definitely use it... IF it had a key feature that I think it's missing. I envision myself using something like this to plan a meeting. So say I'm a boss and I want to see when my employees are free. Right now as the site stands, they all send me their "thesetimes" and then I have to look at each one and then figure out where the free time slots are. What it should be is that as a boss, I send one out to all the employees, they fill out their busy times, and then as the boss I can see all the total busy times of all my employees overlaid so I know when I can schedule the meeting. At least this is how I envision something like this being useful, not just simply sending one persons free/open times, but that is definitely a good use case also.

Some bugs:

- click and drag a time down, but while moving your cursor to the right of the actual day you clicked on, let go, then click and drag down again real quick. You made two times, but they are linked now for some reason. They also delete together.

- permalink is not working

- i can drag outside the borders

- some other real weird funky stuff going on with the dragging. probably have to clean up a buncha bugs in your jquery

Other nice to haves/things to consider:

- drag up

- a line that shows where your cursor is hovering over with the time tooltipped or something like that, it's all approximate right now

- i never liked the term permalink. i think just link works better. but this is just my personal opinion.

Good start though! Good luck.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#5

Post by jarin » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:07 AM UTC

This is actually what I use Tungle.me for (especially since it syncs with Google Calendar), but if RIM kills it you might have a golden opportunity :)

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#6

Post by mikeknoop » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:12 AM UTC

ernestipark wrote: post #4

This is a great idea. I'd definitely use it... IF it had a key feature that I think it's missing. I envision myself using something like this to plan a meeting. So say I'm a boss and I want to see when my employees are free. Right now as the site stands, they all send me their "thesetimes" and then I have to look at each one and then figure out where the free time slots are. What it should be is that as a boss, I sen…

I have a middle of the road solution, what if the site had a feature where you could paste multiple unique "thesetimes" URLs and it would show you a resultant figure with only the overlapped areas?

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by godinaa » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:14 AM UTC

mikeknoop wrote: post #6

ernestipark wrote: post #4

This is a great idea. I'd definitely use it... IF it had a key feature that I think it's missing. I envision myself using something like this to plan a meeting. So say I'm a boss and I want to see when my employees are free. Right now as the site stands, they all send me their "thesetimes" and then I have to look at each one and then figure out where the free time slots are. What it should be is that as a boss, I sen…

I have a middle of the road solution, what if the site had a feature where you could paste multiple unique "thesetimes" URLs and it would show you a resultant figure with only the overlapped areas?

I've got this in the list of things to do. It might be the next thing I do, depending on more feedback.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#8

Post by godinaa » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:19 AM UTC

ernestipark wrote: post #4

This is a great idea. I'd definitely use it... IF it had a key feature that I think it's missing. I envision myself using something like this to plan a meeting. So say I'm a boss and I want to see when my employees are free. Right now as the site stands, they all send me their "thesetimes" and then I have to look at each one and then figure out where the free time slots are. What it should be is that as a boss, I sen…

Woo, feedback! Thanks a ton. Some of the bugs you mentioned I've been aware of, just have not spent a lot of time to fix them. But specifically:

- some other real weird funky stuff going on with the dragging

I've got to go through and make sure I try every combination of dragging. That's definitely in the works before it becomes entirely feasible.

- a line that shows where your cursor is hovering over with the time tooltipped or something like that, it's all approximate right now

This is a great idea, and I'll put it on my list.

- i never liked the term permalink. i think just link works better. but this is just my personal opinion.

Duly noted. I'm in agreement with you.

- Good start though! Good luck.

Thanks for you consideration and help!

Edit: my formatting didn't go as expected

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

#9

Post by bluespace » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:20 AM UTC

I would really enjoy:

* Syncing with google calendar

* being able to add tags, and/or labels.

* different colors.

However I do like the simplicity of it all.

Re: Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule

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Post by godinaa » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 5:32 AM UTC

bluespace wrote: post #9

I would really enjoy: * Syncing with google calendar * being able to add tags, and/or labels. * different colors. However I do like the simplicity of it all.

Simplicity is the key. Tags and labels may make it heavy and overwhelming. Syncing with Google Calendar sounds promising, but I like the idea of exporting to .ics so that it would cover more applications. (though I do love GoogleCal)

I've also considered the different colors idea, and this might be implemented if I decide to build something like a comparator of schedules.

Thanks a lot for your feedback.