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Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings
- elviz 6y agoGreat idea, great app. You should consider making it a proper osx app on the appstore and selling it for a 2$. If you are interested and would love some help, let me know (https://sideproject-help.com https://sideproject-help.com)
- leits 6y agoThanks, evliz! My app is completely opensource and free. I don't plan to make it paid.
- aloisdg 6y agoYou can have both. Why people will pay for the app when you can download it for free ? We will see it as a donation. I always start by using FLOSS and if I stick with the software for more than one year I send a donation. Having the app on a store is a way to achieve that. Thank you for choosing to open source the application it matters a lot for some of us.
- yarsanich 6y agoI already using it.(from Product Hunt launch) Perfect fit for work-day routine especially on WFH.
- leits 6y agoThanks for feedback, yarsanich!
- misterbwong 6y agoSuper cool. Anyone know if there is an equivalent in windows?
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- x2f10 6y agoIf you're signed into the "Calendar" app on Windows 10, you can see upcoming meetings by clicking on the time in the taskbar.
- itsevrgrn 6y agoMy friend and I made something for this recently which works as a google chrome extension: https://nextcall.xyz/ https://nextcall.xyz/
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- Zaheer 6y agoThere was site someone made that automatically redirects to your next meeting. Does anyone remember what it was called? (Update) found it: https://now.me/ https://now.me/
- ohadpr 6y agoGreat - One thing Meeter does which is great (they are a commercial app that does something similar) is popup a notification with a 'join' button 2 minutes or so before the meeting starts. That reduces the interaction to one click rather than two. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meeter-for-zoom-teams-co/id1510445899 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meeter-for-zoom-teams-co/id151...
- wdb 6y agoYeah, really enjoying the Meeter app that comes with the SetApp bundle/subscription :)
- emptysea 6y agoSeems similar to https://apps.apple.com/us/app/next-meeting/id1017470484?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/next-meeting/id1017470484?mt=1... which I love and use every day. Allows you to click on the events and open meet, zoom, etc.
- Etheryte 6y agoThis is super handy as it also works on older versions of macOS. Thanks a lot for sharing this gem!
- Varauk 6y agoI can't seem to open it; I keep getting this message: > “MeetingBar” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. > This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information. Both if I use brew or manually download it.
- leits 6y agoApple isn't very friendly to software distributed outside of AppStore. For installing it you need to: Allow installing software outside of AppStore before installation Allow opening the app from Preferences after installation Follow this official from Apple Support to do this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491c https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491c
- floatingatoll 6y agoThis error occurs on default macOS when using software precompiled on another computer, when the person who compiled and released that software has not signed up for an Apple Developer account and submitted the precompiled bundle for notarization, one of Apple's anti-malware prevention mechanisms. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_macos_software_before_distribution https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m... You can usually work around it by right-clicking the app and choosing Open, which usually triggers a special approval dialog. You should generally use caution when doing so, as you're granting an arbitrary binary whose contents you are unlikely to verify access to your private data. ps. Developers, automating this process as part of your releasing is relatively easy, assuming you have a paid Developer account. The shell script at this link is accompanied by a clear walkthrough, and can be adapted to most workflows run locally on a machine containing your signing keypair. (And if your precompiled binary or bundle was not built with Xcode, you would skip the “xcodebuild” step.) https://scriptingosx.com/2019/09/notarize-a-command-line-tool/ https://scriptingosx.com/2019/09/notarize-a-command-line-too...
- dang 6y agoWe changed the URL from https://meetingbar.onrender.com/ https://meetingbar.onrender.com/ to the GitHub page because the latter has more explanation.
- leits 6y agoSorry, but can you return previous URL? The site is more user-friendly than github interface.
- FanaHOVA 6y agoGiven the audience, GitHub might be more user friendly :)
- dang 6y agoUsually we switch from Github URLs to the project's home page. But in this case there doesn't see to be any information, just a screenshot and links to download/install. HN readers tend to want more information than that.
- dharness 6y agoI prefer the github url fwiw
- tomcat27 6y agovery nice!!
- leits 6y agoSite: https://meetingbar.onrender.com/ https://meetingbar.onrender.com/
- brailsafe 6y agoSeems like this is meant for remote meetings, but it would be great for in office meetings too. I don't remember when so and so has scheduled anything unless it's really consistent, then I'm surprised in the middle of coding and look like a dick when I stay to finish my task before joining.
- jedberg 6y agoI have it installed but it doesn't tell me when the next meeting is. It's just showing a checkered flag icon. Is that because my next meeting is tomorrow?
- floatingatoll 6y agoA checkered flag is using in racing to indicate "Finished", which typically implies "done for the day" in calendaring contexts.
- jedberg 6y agoThat makes a lot of sense! But I've never seen that metaphor in calendaring before. Thanks for the explanation.
- barbs 6y agoFor anyone looking for more general menu bar calendar app that syncs with the macOS calendar, I can highly recommend Itsycal. https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/ https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
- jdechko 6y agoLooks nice. I wish I could use it, but IT has the calendar locked down, and most of the solutions have too much friction to make them viable
- yepthatsreality 6y agoSounds like a nightmare.
- fnord123 6y agoThis is already in the notification pane on the rhs of the screen.
- HugoDias 6y agoLooks Amazing, congrats. Can't install since I'm still using OSX Mojave :(
- DoctorOW 6y agoHey your app is included in the recommended set of apps for all the computers at my former place of employment.
- abcdabcd987 6y agoJust want to mention bitbar[1]. Write anything to stdout, it'll make it show up in the menu bar. [1] https://github.com/matryer/bitbar https://github.com/matryer/bitbar
- rrggrr 6y agoBitbar is amazing. Its become a dashboard for my life.
- chance_state 6y agoWhat sort of things do you display with it?
- danappelxx 6y agoNot parent, but I have bitbar menus for ssh’ing to digitalocean boxes, connecting to corporate vpn, and displaying uptime information from uptimerobot.
- wingerlang 6y agoNot OP as well but I love BitBar. I use it as a catch-all status and action menu at work. Here’s what I have: - Display current git branch, useful for quickly looking up the task and task ID when I need to write it somewhere. - Poll develop branch, parse and display the current sub module commit. Again for quick lookup when I need to reset that repo. - A list of PRs and their status and ID (just open the menu to see the ID so I can easily find the relevant build in eg CI) - A couple of bookmarks for usual websites to open - A couple of bash scripts to delete certain folders - A couple of shortcuts to open specific folders (eg snapshot folder) - A simple HTTP status of a website I manage (it tended to break often, now I see if it is down within a minute) Basically anything I do on a semi regular basis is literally one click away. I cannot recommend this tool enough.
- codetrotter 6y agoOh, this is perfect! It’s been annoying me for a while that the system menu bar clock in macOS doesn’t allow me to format the current date in ISO 8601 format. Bitbar will solve this for me! I’ll change the system clock to only show the day of week and the time, and then I’ll use Bitbar in order to give me the ISO 8601 date in my menu bar! :D Edit: Neat! Someone already made a plug-in for BitBar to do this so I don’t even have to spend any time writing anything at all. And look at that, they even thought about it one step further and made it so that you can copy the date to your clipboard by clicking on it! https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Time/date-picker.1m.sh https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Time/date-picker.1m.sh Edit 2: Initially copy to clipboard wasn’t working but I modified the script a little bit, removing the space before each bash= and putting single quotes around each $0 and now it works. Edit 3: I submitted a PR for the above-mentioned change https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins/pull/1471 https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins/pull/1471
- jonpurdy 6y agoI just tried to install but it requires Catalina. As someone who is planning on staying on Mojave indefinitely to avoid the Catalina dumpster fire, would love MeetingBar to work with Mojave if it can be easily updated to do so!
- faizmokhtar 6y agoProbably because it's built using SwiftUI
- Etheryte 6y agoSame, while I understand the comfort and appeal of writing for the latest stack, I can't imagine upgrading to Catalina any time soon. If anything, I find it more likely that I might upgrade to Big Sur once it stabilizes.
- LeonB 6y agoI have a similar “me ware” app for Windows that I completely rely on. Integrates with outlook. Plan to add google calendar. It floats on top and gives a tiny graph of your day, with different colors for each half hour, float over it to see what meeting, click to open meeting, and it flashes and dances when meetingS approach. It saves me every day over and over. I must release it.
- plasma 6y agoWould love to check it out!
- jeremy_wiebe 6y agoNice! I’ve been using a similar non-OSS tool called Up Next (https://ellen.li/up-next/ https://ellen.li/up-next/). It works great but is not open source.
- Uphermis 6y agooh, is amazing)
- jpeeler 6y agoThis looks like a useful app that I've been looking for. That said, I replaced several individual applications I had been using with Hammerspoon Lua scripts, and had been planning on making my own for exactly this purpose as well. Perhaps it could be argued that Swift is more pleasant than Lua and that a calendar integration app is complex enough to warrant skipping Hammerspoon for this task?