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Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling
- sloppycee 13y agoThis is my first product release. The whole thing took about a week to design, develop, and release. I'd love some feedback.
- crb 13y agoI'd have liked to see some sort of screenshot tour (or a product video as there is presumably a real-time component) before signing in - there's very little detail available, which might be good for conversion, but it meant I didn't click the button. (When I did, I was given a "sign in with Google" chooser - did you consider telling people what is going to happen before they do that? It might seem obvious, but it might put people off too.) Also, have you considered per-domain pricing? With the demise of Appointment Slots, this could be something you could sell to a Google Apps for Business customer for all their users.
- sloppycee 13y agoMy first priority is working on a better marketing site, which means a product tour; I realize this is lacking. Per-domain pricing seems very interesting, I will look in to it, thank you!
- ydant 13y agoI'd suggest dropping the requirement for payment info in order to start the free trial. I was going to try it out on my calendar - with a colleague in mind. I don't schedule enough appointments to make it worth it to me, and I'm not really interested in giving you my CC details just to test it for someone else. At the very least, you should make the demo link easier to find.
- peterwwillis 13y ago$10 a month seems a little steep. I don't pay that much for a VPS. Did you beta test this?
- crb 13y agoAnother data point: A single Google Apps mailbox costs $50/year - ~$4.20/mo.
- robg 13y agoCan I restrict available times? For instance, I only like to schedule meetings late in the day or first thing in the morning. Just because I have availability doesn't mean I am available...
- hayksaakian 13y agoI had this idea in my mind as well. Could you support a feature that hides all information on the calendar except times? I don't want my appointment makers to know my life story.
- sloppycee 13y agoThis is not clear from the marketing materials, but it does do this currently. That is something I should change. You can see an example here: https://www.bespeak.io/book/demo https://www.bespeak.io/book/demo
- hayksaakian 13y agoyeah, I see it now. is there some way to designate blocks of time as open? if I can only take appointments between 10am and 1pm, is there some way to indicate that with this system?
- sloppycee 13y agoYes, you can specify which hours you are available. Also, we are working on a duty calendar feature where you can create appointment slots.
- crb 13y agoAs a Google Calendar user, I'm used to being able to drag down on a time period to book an event, and then enter event details. I can't do that on your demo.
- sloppycee 13y agoYes but we found that the calendar owner want's to restrict the length of appointment, rather than let the contact select an arbitrary length.
- johnnyg 13y agoI have this pain point. I was hoping for API docs and a live chat or contact us section... In my case, I'd like to allow customer service candidates who have passed initial skills test screeners to be prompted to select a primary and secondary scheduling slot and have those selections pushed to gcal.
- sloppycee 13y agoI think we could help you with that, there is nothing preventing you from embedding your booking page in an iframe.
- amackera 13y agoLooks great! Simple, clean, and highly usable.
- teh_klev 13y agoAs another commenter noted, your site doesn't really give much away, I too would need to see screenshots or a product video. Also when I click on the Pricing link at the top it's not immediately obvious I just jumped past your product feature blurb to a #anchor. It says "All this for only $10 a month. Checkmate." and I thought, "All what?", then realised I needed to scroll up.
- sloppycee 13y agoI have added a smooth scroll effect that should fix this, thank you.
- antoinec 13y agoThat seems really interesting, however a working demo would be great, especially because you are asking the credit card before anything else (not saying it's bad, just that I'm not comfortable with giving my payment information after one screenshot only)
- hayksaakian 13y agoThe confirmation email went to Junk w/ outlook. Just letting you know.
- rafaqueque 13y agoKeep getting 500 after a few tries.
- sloppycee 13y agoYeah, I see that. I will fix that asap. BTW it is because your email is > 30 characters long. edit: fixed.
- eitally 13y agoNo freaking way this is worth $10/mo, especially when creating your own by embedding your Google Calendar in a web page (or in the case of my example, a Google Site page) and sharing the link is free. https://sites.google.com/site/elliottally/ https://sites.google.com/site/elliottally/ I've included a link to that in my email signature for the last couple of years to solve specifically this problem and it works great. It's not particularly beautiful, but it solved the problem. There are a plethora of other apps providing the same service (here's one: http://www.scheduleonce.com/pricing http://www.scheduleonce.com/pricing), so you're going to have to differentiate yourself somehow. You really need a free tier.
- r00k 13y agoNo freaking way this is worth $10/mo, especially when creating your own by embedding your Google Calendar in a web page (or in the case of my example, a Google Site page) and sharing the link is free. The link you provided doesn't accomplish the same thing as their product. Your link is just a read-only view of your calendar (unless I've missed something). The real utility comes when people can actually schedule something on your calendar without your help. I've been wishing for exactly this recently, and am excited to try the app. Also, since I'd use this for work (saving me real time) on a company credit card, $10/month is without question a completely negligible amount. In summary: I disagree with everything you've said. :)
- kintamanimatt 13y ago> The real utility comes when people can actually schedule something on your calendar without your help. Sounds like a nightmare.
- eitally 13y agoNo kidding. Besides that, the people scheduling the appointment will probably want to schedule it from their calendar, not some third party app. The most valuable use case is determining when someone is available, not creating the appointment.
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- joyeuse6701 13y agoPassive income hack...rising
- brandonbica 13y agoIs this just a replacement for the gap left when Tungle.Me was bought by blackberry? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tungle http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tungle Am I missing a key difference?