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We're Building a Calendar for Work

52 points by rickpastoor 6y ago

reinierladan 6y ago
I'm really looking forward to this app. Looks like a nice combination of a calendar with a todo-list.
- underyx 6y ago
  It’s nice to disclose that you’re friends with the creators when you post comments like this.
Marciplan 6y ago
Looking forward to a Calendar that I'd actually like to use :)
mdbraber 6y ago
Interesting integration to use your calendar as the central location to plan your day
rokob 6y ago
I was confused by this at first because I was thinking we already had a calendar app that promised all this with the same name that Microsoft acquired. Then I remembered that was Sunrise not Rise. Hopefully this one isn’t as good so that it doesn’t get bought and shutdown.
- satvikpendem 6y ago
  You might be looking for Sunsama, which seems to be a clone of Sunrise.
liotier 6y ago
As long as it offers CalDAV...
underyx 6y ago
Would like to point out that the first three commenters as well as the creators of the project all have links to the Netherlands. Two of the three accounts have been dormant for a long time, too, before commenting infomercial-sounding comments here.
- yvoschaap 6y ago
  The founders are well known and respected in The Netherlands. Not sure what you imply.
  - dlvktrsh 6y ago
    op was implying that maybe the three accounts from Netherlands might all belong to a group of people with similar motives and probably wanted others to be wary of this considering the accounts have been dormant for a while too
blakesterz 6y ago
I tried both FireFox and Chrome and I'm not actually seeing the calendar. Is there no screenshots or demo or anything?
- neogodless 6y ago
  There's a wall of text that you can barely see. I believe it's light purple on a dark purple background? Perhaps it hints at all the events on your calendar blending so well together that you cannot tell them apart!
  - rickpastoor 6y ago
    :')
kritiko 6y ago
"You know how Presidents and executives manage to be fully present for the extent of a 30 minute meeting? They never spend time thinking about when to leave, what time it is or how long they have until the meeting ends." Strikes me as overpromising what their tool can deliver. Presidents and executives have people who they pay to protect their time and also offload a lot of the basic tasks of daily life - cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare, etc. to others. I'm interested in how we can create more time for deep work, but I'm also skeptical.
- Jtsummers 6y ago
  Offices used to offer some of that protection (not extending to the home/personal life) to their employees by having a secretary/admin attached to individual teams. At my last office, they experienced a sharp decline in productivity as things like business travel, writing/tracking memos, scheduling meetings, etc. was shifted increasingly to the technical staff and individual workers. Ostensibly, the travel site was more efficient, but only in the sense that they dropped a 5-person travel office that had previously handled things. But the site was so hard to use correctly that they hired another 5-person travel office and a 10-person finance team to help manage travel and the use of corporate cards for the office.
satvikpendem 6y ago
This is very interesting, I'm building something similar, an open source todo list + calendar at https://getartemis.app 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 lack of intra-day time bounding for them. I want to know exactly what to do at all points of the day, so that I can get more done. Of course, most people aren't as serious as me, but having such an abstraction is still good for them as well. In a way, this is great user validation if people are having similar problems and are building their own solutions. I wish Rise all the best. That being said, rather than having text, a mockup with images or better yet, a video, would work better. On my site, the entire video is only an animation mockup, and it's gotten me over 1.3k email signups already (yes I know email signups != revenue, but it's interest at least).
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  Thanks, looks cool!
- maximp 6y ago
  Oh my gosh, this is so much more intriguing than OP's landing page.
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - satvikpendem 6y ago
    Thanks! What drew you to it, or made it intriguing, if you don't mind me asking?
- XCSme 6y ago
  Nice landing page, but I am missing the "Pricing" section, I would never sign-up to a product that doesn't disclose pricing beforehand.
danielovichdk 6y ago
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 being something else, you are not really trying ro solve the real challenge. If you too much shit to do, a calendar wont fix that. If your meeting are fucked because people are badly prepared, a calendar wont fix that. If you have to many appointments with your parents in law, your calendar wont fix that. A calendar is a tool that should be fixed. Don't start to fuck around making it something else. I have seen people use their calendar as project tools for assignments. FFS - use a tool that is actually made for that. And so on...
- tmpz22 6y ago
  It's a lot like a new diet. Ya it might help a few people concretely but for the most part its going to be a lot of people posting about how this great new diet is going to change their life but its ultimately ineffective and used as a signaling tool briefly before becoming a scapegoat. That said I think a lot of Google Calendar based tooling needs improvement so good on them for trying and I hope they move the meter in a positive direction.
- benkoller 6y ago
  > If you too much shit to do, a calendar wont fix that. If your meeting are fucked because people are badly prepared, a calendar wont fix that. If you have to many appointments with your parents in law, your calendar wont fix that. Couldn't agree more. People > Process, both ways around.
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  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.
asciimov 6y ago
"Where's the Beef?"
hacker_newz 6y ago
Did they forget to a include the actual calendar?
benrbray 6y ago
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 group of people that are looking to build a sustainable (but customer-friendly) business model around an idea they are passionate about. It's unprofessional but simultaneously reeks with a sense of uber-corporate detachment. Something rubs me the wrong way about this and based on the other comments I'm clearly not alone.
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  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 :)
  - z5h 6y ago
    If you haven’t built an MVP and used it, how can you be sure it’s revolutionary or even viable?
    - rickpastoor 6y ago
      We're not sure, we'll find out if it meets our high expectations :)
- mgkimsal 6y ago
  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?
yboris 6y ago
1-year 1-page calendar: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ The Compact Calendar by David Seah Really great to have a bird's eye view of your year
easton 6y ago
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).
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  > 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 Experimenting with using a calendar for work can – in my experience working with hundreds of people – have a dramatically positive impact on they people work. Give it a go :)
- neogodless 6y ago
  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.
candiddevmike 6y ago
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 https://about.domestica.app
throwawaygulf 6y ago
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.
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  What's a feature of Outlook that's underappreciated most?
  - throwawaygulf 6y ago
    Anything beyond basic calendaring, and the awesome powerful rules engine it has. For example, accept all meetings tentatively if they're scheduled between 9-4, and they don't overlap with another meeting. You can't even auto-accept meetings in Google Calendar OOTB.
- mgkimsal 6y ago
  Somewhat agreed. That's of course not to say that "it was solved in 2005, it never needs to be revisited again" but approaching many issues as "tech" issues, and also not having some background/history of what came before (and the why behind it) leads to a lot of wasted time/effort.
alexkearns 6y ago
A few years ago, I thought I'd try to redesign the calendar (as these guys seem to want to do). My innovation was integrating a timeline navigation to allow you to easily animate between months and years. Plus, loads of visual customisation options. Sadly, the product I developed didn't take off but if you are interested in a left field take on a calendar design, you might want to take a look: https://www.chronoflocalendar.com https://www.chronoflocalendar.com
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  Nice!
PeterStuer 6y ago
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.
- Lightbody 6y ago
  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 :)
  - PeterStuer 6y ago
    Sadly lack of O365 support is a deal-breaker for me (and I suspect many others) as that is where my company work calendar resides.
xyst 6y ago
I feel like there's always some person or company that's trying to revolutionize the calendar. At this point, how different will it be from what Outlook or Google Calendar offer? Even if there's something game changing, how many people will actually maintain these two different systems?
maximp 6y ago
I loved the headline and was intrigued. However, the page told me nothing about what the product does. I was excited to see a demo, or screenshots or something. Also, this wording near the top is all fluff: "bestseller GRIP with world class and internationally praised design." I googled "GRIP book", and found nothing.
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  Here's more on my book (out in NL and sold >60k copies self published, will be out internationally later this year): gripboek.nl/english Emiel worked on Blendle, Tidal and a ton of other really pretty products. And obviously we'll show more of the product as soon as we have it :)
kthejoker2 6y ago
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-promise-of-leisure/ https://behavioralscientist.org/time-confetti-and-the-broken...
- mercer 6y ago
  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.
  - kthejoker2 6y ago
    It's my role, I'm part of the "front door" for the data and AI practice at a large tech consultancy, so supporting lots of conversations for both sales and delivery - like a hotel concierge of sorts, if he were a principal architect :) If you're like me and are the classic gifted child (brilliant but lazy) it is the ideal role, just know your stuff, show up, win the work, and let everyone else handle the day to day particulars.
Lightbody 6y ago
If folks are interested in this topic (calendars + better time management) and want to try something that is in production today and available for signup (GCal only), check out my startup: https://reclaim.ai https://reclaim.ai. We do: - Privacy-centric calendar sync (eg: "Job Interview" source -> "Personal Commitment" on work cal) - Flexible time blocking that throttles free/busy time, allowing you to be available for meetings if you have time - Support for recurring habits (eg: lunch, catch up on email, etc) - Support for one-off tasks, chunked up into blocks (currently integrates w/ Google Tasks, more coming) - Automatic event classification and color coding - Automatic Slack status sync based on your agenda

52 points by rickpastoor 6y ago

reinierladan 6y ago

I'm really looking forward to this app. Looks like a nice combination of a calendar with a todo-list.

underyx 6y ago
It’s nice to disclose that you’re friends with the creators when you post comments like this.

Marciplan 6y ago

Looking forward to a Calendar that I'd actually like to use :)

mdbraber 6y ago

Interesting integration to use your calendar as the central location to plan your day

rokob 6y ago

I was confused by this at first because I was thinking we already had a calendar app that promised all this with the same name that Microsoft acquired. Then I remembered that was Sunrise not Rise. Hopefully this one isn’t as good so that it doesn’t get bought and shutdown.

satvikpendem 6y ago
You might be looking for Sunsama, which seems to be a clone of Sunrise.

liotier 6y ago

As long as it offers CalDAV...

underyx 6y ago

Would like to point out that the first three commenters as well as the creators of the project all have links to the Netherlands. Two of the three accounts have been dormant for a long time, too, before commenting infomercial-sounding comments here.

yvoschaap 6y ago
The founders are well known and respected in The Netherlands. Not sure what you imply.
- dlvktrsh 6y ago
  op was implying that maybe the three accounts from Netherlands might all belong to a group of people with similar motives and probably wanted others to be wary of this considering the accounts have been dormant for a while too

blakesterz 6y ago

I tried both FireFox and Chrome and I'm not actually seeing the calendar. Is there no screenshots or demo or anything?

neogodless 6y ago
There's a wall of text that you can barely see. I believe it's light purple on a dark purple background? Perhaps it hints at all the events on your calendar blending so well together that you cannot tell them apart!
- rickpastoor 6y ago
  :')

kritiko 6y ago

"You know how Presidents and executives manage to be fully present for the extent of a 30 minute meeting? They never spend time thinking about when to leave, what time it is or how long they have until the meeting ends." Strikes me as overpromising what their tool can deliver. Presidents and executives have people who they pay to protect their time and also offload a lot of the basic tasks of daily life - cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare, etc. to others. I'm interested in how we can create more time for deep work, but I'm also skeptical.

Jtsummers 6y ago
Offices used to offer some of that protection (not extending to the home/personal life) to their employees by having a secretary/admin attached to individual teams. At my last office, they experienced a sharp decline in productivity as things like business travel, writing/tracking memos, scheduling meetings, etc. was shifted increasingly to the technical staff and individual workers. Ostensibly, the travel site was more efficient, but only in the sense that they dropped a 5-person travel office that had previously handled things. But the site was so hard to use correctly that they hired another 5-person travel office and a 10-person finance team to help manage travel and the use of corporate cards for the office.

satvikpendem 6y ago

This is very interesting, I'm building something similar, an open source todo list + calendar at https://getartemis.app 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 lack of intra-day time bounding for them. I want to know exactly what to do at all points of the day, so that I can get more done. Of course, most people aren't as serious as me, but having such an abstraction is still good for them as well. In a way, this is great user validation if people are having similar problems and are building their own solutions. I wish Rise all the best. That being said, rather than having text, a mockup with images or better yet, a video, would work better. On my site, the entire video is only an animation mockup, and it's gotten me over 1.3k email signups already (yes I know email signups != revenue, but it's interest at least).

rickpastoor 6y ago
Thanks, looks cool!
maximp 6y ago
Oh my gosh, this is so much more intriguing than OP's landing page.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- satvikpendem 6y ago
  Thanks! What drew you to it, or made it intriguing, if you don't mind me asking?
XCSme 6y ago
Nice landing page, but I am missing the "Pricing" section, I would never sign-up to a product that doesn't disclose pricing beforehand.

danielovichdk 6y ago

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 being something else, you are not really trying ro solve the real challenge. If you too much shit to do, a calendar wont fix that. If your meeting are fucked because people are badly prepared, a calendar wont fix that. If you have to many appointments with your parents in law, your calendar wont fix that. A calendar is a tool that should be fixed. Don't start to fuck around making it something else. I have seen people use their calendar as project tools for assignments. FFS - use a tool that is actually made for that. And so on...

tmpz22 6y ago
It's a lot like a new diet. Ya it might help a few people concretely but for the most part its going to be a lot of people posting about how this great new diet is going to change their life but its ultimately ineffective and used as a signaling tool briefly before becoming a scapegoat. That said I think a lot of Google Calendar based tooling needs improvement so good on them for trying and I hope they move the meter in a positive direction.
benkoller 6y ago
> If you too much shit to do, a calendar wont fix that. If your meeting are fucked because people are badly prepared, a calendar wont fix that. If you have to many appointments with your parents in law, your calendar wont fix that. Couldn't agree more. People > Process, both ways around.
rickpastoor 6y ago
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.

asciimov 6y ago

"Where's the Beef?"

hacker_newz 6y ago

Did they forget to a include the actual calendar?

benrbray 6y ago

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 group of people that are looking to build a sustainable (but customer-friendly) business model around an idea they are passionate about. It's unprofessional but simultaneously reeks with a sense of uber-corporate detachment. Something rubs me the wrong way about this and based on the other comments I'm clearly not alone.

rickpastoor 6y ago
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 :)
- z5h 6y ago
  If you haven’t built an MVP and used it, how can you be sure it’s revolutionary or even viable?
  - rickpastoor 6y ago
    We're not sure, we'll find out if it meets our high expectations :)
mgkimsal 6y ago
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?

yboris 6y ago

1-year 1-page calendar: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ The Compact Calendar by David Seah Really great to have a bird's eye view of your year

easton 6y ago

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).

rickpastoor 6y ago
> 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 Experimenting with using a calendar for work can – in my experience working with hundreds of people – have a dramatically positive impact on they people work. Give it a go :)
neogodless 6y ago
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.

candiddevmike 6y ago

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 https://about.domestica.app

throwawaygulf 6y ago

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.

rickpastoor 6y ago
What's a feature of Outlook that's underappreciated most?
- throwawaygulf 6y ago
  Anything beyond basic calendaring, and the awesome powerful rules engine it has. For example, accept all meetings tentatively if they're scheduled between 9-4, and they don't overlap with another meeting. You can't even auto-accept meetings in Google Calendar OOTB.
mgkimsal 6y ago
Somewhat agreed. That's of course not to say that "it was solved in 2005, it never needs to be revisited again" but approaching many issues as "tech" issues, and also not having some background/history of what came before (and the why behind it) leads to a lot of wasted time/effort.

alexkearns 6y ago

A few years ago, I thought I'd try to redesign the calendar (as these guys seem to want to do). My innovation was integrating a timeline navigation to allow you to easily animate between months and years. Plus, loads of visual customisation options. Sadly, the product I developed didn't take off but if you are interested in a left field take on a calendar design, you might want to take a look: https://www.chronoflocalendar.com https://www.chronoflocalendar.com

rickpastoor 6y ago
Nice!

PeterStuer 6y ago

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.

Lightbody 6y ago
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 :)
- PeterStuer 6y ago
  Sadly lack of O365 support is a deal-breaker for me (and I suspect many others) as that is where my company work calendar resides.

xyst 6y ago

I feel like there's always some person or company that's trying to revolutionize the calendar. At this point, how different will it be from what Outlook or Google Calendar offer? Even if there's something game changing, how many people will actually maintain these two different systems?

maximp 6y ago

I loved the headline and was intrigued. However, the page told me nothing about what the product does. I was excited to see a demo, or screenshots or something. Also, this wording near the top is all fluff: "bestseller GRIP with world class and internationally praised design." I googled "GRIP book", and found nothing.

rickpastoor 6y ago
Here's more on my book (out in NL and sold >60k copies self published, will be out internationally later this year): gripboek.nl/english Emiel worked on Blendle, Tidal and a ton of other really pretty products. And obviously we'll show more of the product as soon as we have it :)

kthejoker2 6y ago

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

mercer 6y ago
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.
- kthejoker2 6y ago
  It's my role, I'm part of the "front door" for the data and AI practice at a large tech consultancy, so supporting lots of conversations for both sales and delivery - like a hotel concierge of sorts, if he were a principal architect :) If you're like me and are the classic gifted child (brilliant but lazy) it is the ideal role, just know your stuff, show up, win the work, and let everyone else handle the day to day particulars.

Lightbody 6y ago

If folks are interested in this topic (calendars + better time management) and want to try something that is in production today and available for signup (GCal only), check out my startup: https://reclaim.ai https://reclaim.ai. We do: - Privacy-centric calendar sync (eg: "Job Interview" source -> "Personal Commitment" on work cal) - Flexible time blocking that throttles free/busy time, allowing you to be available for meetings if you have time - Support for recurring habits (eg: lunch, catch up on email, etc) - Support for one-off tasks, chunked up into blocks (currently integrates w/ Google Tasks, more coming) - Automatic event classification and color coding - Automatic Slack status sync based on your agenda