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Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning
Hey Hacker News!
To test implementing AI (and paywalls tbh) in software for the first time, I made this simple calendar creator (no mail address required) that lets a person create a calendar based on his needs and availability and export it to his calendar app, pdf or receive a daily newsletter with his daily tasks (and more).
After wrestling with different models (f.e. with huggingface) and encountering different problems, I decided to use ChatGPT's models, tune them a little and see how the result works out. ChatGPT's low price enables me to give users the opportunity to create calendars for free and without a mail address required.
Demo video: https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared
The website/tool includes:
- Creating your calendar based on a title, date range and a description
- Editing and "polishing" the calendar until getting a desired result
- Exporting the calendar to your calendar app (can be Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, etc...)
- Exporting the calendar to PDF
- Signing up for a daily newsletter that contains a user's daily tasks, reminders, special ai notes and more!
Some technical stuff:
- I am using firestore database and paypal payments
- I am always using the latest-fastest ChatGPT AI model (as generation-time is really important here)
- The website is created with Nuxt 3 (Nuxt for vuejs is what Next is for reactjs) and designed with tailwindcss
- ilancreates 2y agoHey! My name's Ilan. First of all, thanks for reading the whole thing above. I am coding for at least 7 years now (I don't really remember when I started) but I started creating SaaS only about couple of months ago. So, the whole marketing thing is a problem for me. If you find any problem in the product or have suggestions - I'll be super happy to here! I really don't love sign-ups and slow user experience, so I tried my website to have neither of them. Hope I succeeded.
- Mathnerd314 2y agoI looked into doing something like this and I was like "Todoist has AI, Notion has AI, how am I going to do any better than them?" So I didn't start. At this point I have specific prompts for ChatGPT and when I need this functionality I manually copy/paste them in and copy/paste the output into the todo apps. Even after trying the site, I still don't think you have a marketable product, but kudos for shipping. I hope to see you back in a year with "How I made 1 million dollars shipping SaaS apps" blog post. ;-)
- ilancreates 2y agoThank you very much! To be honest, it began as a training exercise for me to learn how to ship SaaS and implement AI in it. It did get some attraction online so I wanted to push it a little. Anyways, thank you for your honesty! Appreciate it!
- pimlottc 2y agoI don’t understand this at all. How is this going to help me create a calendar? It says it will send me tasks - what tasks? The website needs a lot more explanation.
- ilancreates 2y agoHey, did you try to use the tool? With description and title, it fills all the days within a date range you give with daily tasks, that match the description and title you want. There is a video: https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared
- 8mobile 2y agoIt is not very clear how the ai will help me with this app. Does it create a planner for me based on the task I want to perform? Does it produce a calendar or something else? It is a software. If you can explain in a video how to use it. Thanks
- ilancreates 2y agoHey, I linked to the sign up but maybe it is clearer at the main domain: https://calendarplusai.com https://calendarplusai.com The app creates calendars (which are daily-todos basically. Creates tasks for each day) based on your title and description which are later exportable. Try using the tool and you'll understand quickly what it does. Video: https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared
- ilancreates 2y agoI linked to the sign-up to speed up the process for you but there is a main page: https://calendarplusai.com https://calendarplusai.com
- AriyanWasi 2y agoNice, its basically the demo that OpenAI showed when they unveiled the code interpreter but come to life. I haven't seen is a product before though. Good job.
- ilancreates 2y agohahahaha thanks!
- judith75hodges 2y ago[flagged]
- ilancreates 2y agoAlways happy to share! Thanks!
- freshlentils 2y agoas someone who creates and updates training plans for cycling, this is rly neat it could be cool to be able to upload studies or point to websites or anything else that would be relevant context for the AI to produce better calendars e.g. sometimes I'll be motivated by a training study I recently read, if the AI could easily build me a training calendar based on the study that'd be pretty cool
- r0fl 2y agoThis was too confusing to figure out in 3 seconds so I left Sounded like a great concept but execution should be revisited