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Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go

140 points by k-mcgrady 11y ago

kin 11y ago
Using the keyboard is super creative
- daveloyall 11y ago
  Would someone describe how the keyboard is used?
  - rickyc091 11y ago
    They are leveraging the custom keyboard feature in iOS 8 and build a keyboard around it. It's actually really clever. After choosing times you are available, location, etc., it returns a link. Imagine this keyboard when you are texting, imagine it when you are composing an email. You don't have to jump between two apps to send a calendar invite. It simply works anywhere.
    - daveloyall 11y ago
      Ohh! Thank you. :)
- pimlottc 11y ago
  Indeed, very clever! It seems like you could write an entire mini-app as a custom keyboard. What sort of limitations are there to what you can do with this? What's Apple's policy towards custom keyboards?
- outworlder 11y ago
  This does not seem like the intended use-case for custom keyboards. I hope Apple won't get too upset.
  - paulsutter 11y ago
    Why do you think so? I mean this as a serious question because that's not apparent to me. If a numeric keyboard makes it easier to enter numbers, and a Japanese keyboard makes it easier to enter Japanese, why shouldn't an appointment keyboard make it easier to enter an appointment time?
    - smtddr 11y ago
      I could totally see Apple saying "The custom keyboard is meant for languages and special characters/symbols, not to be used by an app in this fashion" Wouldn't be the worserejection-reason they've given. You might even find an app that does the same thing already on the AppStore, but that won't stop them from rejecting you because that's just how they roll. http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/apple/20-classic-apple-app-store-rejections-654230 http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/apple/20-classic-... http://matt.coneybeare.me/stupid-apple-rejection-of-the-day/ http://matt.coneybeare.me/stupid-apple-rejection-of-the-day/
rdoherty 11y ago
This looks awesome, but I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it. Anyone using Sunrise and have any information? The homepage has 0 info, nothing. I'm not keen on sharing my google account with it until I learn more.
- k-mcgrady 11y ago
  >> "I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it." Meet seems to be part of the Sunrise app. However you can receive and respond to invites without using Sunrise. You can get a better overview of the app here [1] than on the homepage. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.android.calendar https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.and... P.S. I would recommend using it :) It's a fantastic calendar app.
- theschwa 11y ago
  Sunrise is one of the most popular calendar apps, and it was recently purchased by Microsoft. I use it, and it's the best calendar app I've found so far on iOS.
- cwilson 11y ago
  Sunrise is great. I've used it for almost a year now and it's my favorite calendar app.
kmfrk 11y ago
Okay that's pretty smart. Guess I'll have to step it up, if I want to be snarky about this project.
niix 11y ago
Really cool way to think out side of the box. The keyboard idea is sweet.
jsonne 11y ago
This is super cool. I do account services and doing the whole back and forth dance of scheduling a meeting takes up way too much time.
coffeedoughnuts 11y ago
Hadn't heard of sunrise before seeing this; Tried it out and seems great! Shame there's no exchange calendars on web/os x though. Sunrise devs, if you're out there, is there a roadmap for this?
- cujo 11y ago
  What makes it more amazing is that MS bought them a short time back. They've pushed out a couple of updates since, but still no exchange support.
- way66 11y ago
  hey! we're working on support for office 365 on desktop but no plans for support exchange on promise from our desktop app (sorry if that's confusing) happy to chat more at support@sunrise.am pierre - ceo @ sunrise
shockzzz 11y ago
I'd use this if Sunrise weren't butt slow on my iPhone...
- k-mcgrady 11y ago
  What iPhone do you use?
  - shockzzz 11y ago
    iPhone 5
verelo 11y ago
I love it! My only feature request (semi jokingly), integration with my mail client so I can swipe from the lock screen to send a polite "no thanks" for all those pesky sales emails.
qiqing 11y ago
This looks pretty awesome and I'm going to try it out. Feedback: might want to include iOS App Store and Google Play Store links directly in the blog post because 1) I wouldn't have had to open a new tab to search for your app manually, and 2) you have an idea of how many referrals you got through this post.
- ckrailo 11y ago
  They're in the bottom footer of the blog.
  - qiqing 11y ago
    Ah, I see them now. I had ctrl+f'ed for 'install' and few other terms before giving up.
goeric 11y ago
Really clever. 1Password should make a custom keyboard so I don't need to leave apps (and navigate to the 1Password app) to fill out passwords.
- bobbles 11y ago
  If you're using iOS i'm pretty sure that custom keyboards aren't allowed to access the password fields?
  - paulsutter 11y ago
    Even if that's true, it may be such a good idea that they may want to consider changing it.
- _kyran 11y ago
  the android beta has this as well
- jasonpbecker 11y ago
  They have a share sheet extension. Click the thing you use to email a webpage, click the 1Password button, log in, click the log in that's detected to match the URL, autofills and you can hit submit. Password fields can't use custom keyboards because of fear of logging that entry. The share sheet extension works great though for 1Password, especially when combined with TouchID.
philsnow 11y ago
I was just about to delete sunrise from my phone because it seems to have a lot of trouble noticing when events have changed or been deleted, and it's actually caused me once or twice to re-arrange my home life around phantom meetings that had been canceled.
- hhsnopek 11y ago
  Sounds like a connection problem, it's happened me me once or twice - I'd recommend changing the update time
jasonpbecker 11y ago
Frustrating to me that there's no CalDav support.
andrea_sdl 11y ago
They have found a way to innovate something (scheduling meetings) that wasn't seeing innovations for sooo long. It's incredible and I can't tell how much marvel it gives once you see the video and understand the semplicity. That's the core point of the web and the apps in general: making things simplier. They just did it in a marvelous way. Great job.
olivier1664 11y ago
Look great! I wanted to see more on the calendar it self, but I have not found the demo link on the main page. IMO, you should add a presentation of your calendar without requiring to create an account. https://calendar.sunrise.am/ https://calendar.sunrise.am/ (and also: add a link from your blog to your product)

140 points by k-mcgrady 11y ago

kin 11y ago

Using the keyboard is super creative

daveloyall 11y ago
Would someone describe how the keyboard is used?
- rickyc091 11y ago
  They are leveraging the custom keyboard feature in iOS 8 and build a keyboard around it. It's actually really clever. After choosing times you are available, location, etc., it returns a link. Imagine this keyboard when you are texting, imagine it when you are composing an email. You don't have to jump between two apps to send a calendar invite. It simply works anywhere.
  - daveloyall 11y ago
    Ohh! Thank you. :)
pimlottc 11y ago
Indeed, very clever! It seems like you could write an entire mini-app as a custom keyboard. What sort of limitations are there to what you can do with this? What's Apple's policy towards custom keyboards?
outworlder 11y ago
This does not seem like the intended use-case for custom keyboards. I hope Apple won't get too upset.
- paulsutter 11y ago
  Why do you think so? I mean this as a serious question because that's not apparent to me. If a numeric keyboard makes it easier to enter numbers, and a Japanese keyboard makes it easier to enter Japanese, why shouldn't an appointment keyboard make it easier to enter an appointment time?
  - smtddr 11y ago
    I could totally see Apple saying "The custom keyboard is meant for languages and special characters/symbols, not to be used by an app in this fashion" Wouldn't be the worserejection-reason they've given. You might even find an app that does the same thing already on the AppStore, but that won't stop them from rejecting you because that's just how they roll. http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/apple/20-classic-apple-app-store-rejections-654230 http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/apple/20-classic-... http://matt.coneybeare.me/stupid-apple-rejection-of-the-day/ http://matt.coneybeare.me/stupid-apple-rejection-of-the-day/

rdoherty 11y ago

This looks awesome, but I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it. Anyone using Sunrise and have any information? The homepage has 0 info, nothing. I'm not keen on sharing my google account with it until I learn more.

k-mcgrady 11y ago
>> "I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it." Meet seems to be part of the Sunrise app. However you can receive and respond to invites without using Sunrise. You can get a better overview of the app here [1] than on the homepage. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.android.calendar https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.and... P.S. I would recommend using it :) It's a fantastic calendar app.
theschwa 11y ago
Sunrise is one of the most popular calendar apps, and it was recently purchased by Microsoft. I use it, and it's the best calendar app I've found so far on iOS.
cwilson 11y ago
Sunrise is great. I've used it for almost a year now and it's my favorite calendar app.

kmfrk 11y ago

Okay that's pretty smart. Guess I'll have to step it up, if I want to be snarky about this project.

niix 11y ago

Really cool way to think out side of the box. The keyboard idea is sweet.

jsonne 11y ago

This is super cool. I do account services and doing the whole back and forth dance of scheduling a meeting takes up way too much time.

coffeedoughnuts 11y ago

Hadn't heard of sunrise before seeing this; Tried it out and seems great! Shame there's no exchange calendars on web/os x though. Sunrise devs, if you're out there, is there a roadmap for this?

cujo 11y ago
What makes it more amazing is that MS bought them a short time back. They've pushed out a couple of updates since, but still no exchange support.
way66 11y ago
hey! we're working on support for office 365 on desktop but no plans for support exchange on promise from our desktop app (sorry if that's confusing) happy to chat more at support@sunrise.am pierre - ceo @ sunrise

shockzzz 11y ago

I'd use this if Sunrise weren't butt slow on my iPhone...

k-mcgrady 11y ago
What iPhone do you use?
- shockzzz 11y ago
  iPhone 5

verelo 11y ago

I love it! My only feature request (semi jokingly), integration with my mail client so I can swipe from the lock screen to send a polite "no thanks" for all those pesky sales emails.

qiqing 11y ago

This looks pretty awesome and I'm going to try it out. Feedback: might want to include iOS App Store and Google Play Store links directly in the blog post because 1) I wouldn't have had to open a new tab to search for your app manually, and 2) you have an idea of how many referrals you got through this post.

ckrailo 11y ago
They're in the bottom footer of the blog.
- qiqing 11y ago
  Ah, I see them now. I had ctrl+f'ed for 'install' and few other terms before giving up.

goeric 11y ago

Really clever. 1Password should make a custom keyboard so I don't need to leave apps (and navigate to the 1Password app) to fill out passwords.

bobbles 11y ago
If you're using iOS i'm pretty sure that custom keyboards aren't allowed to access the password fields?
- paulsutter 11y ago
  Even if that's true, it may be such a good idea that they may want to consider changing it.
_kyran 11y ago
the android beta has this as well
jasonpbecker 11y ago
They have a share sheet extension. Click the thing you use to email a webpage, click the 1Password button, log in, click the log in that's detected to match the URL, autofills and you can hit submit. Password fields can't use custom keyboards because of fear of logging that entry. The share sheet extension works great though for 1Password, especially when combined with TouchID.

philsnow 11y ago

I was just about to delete sunrise from my phone because it seems to have a lot of trouble noticing when events have changed or been deleted, and it's actually caused me once or twice to re-arrange my home life around phantom meetings that had been canceled.

hhsnopek 11y ago
Sounds like a connection problem, it's happened me me once or twice - I'd recommend changing the update time

jasonpbecker 11y ago

Frustrating to me that there's no CalDav support.

andrea_sdl 11y ago

They have found a way to innovate something (scheduling meetings) that wasn't seeing innovations for sooo long. It's incredible and I can't tell how much marvel it gives once you see the video and understand the semplicity. That's the core point of the web and the apps in general: making things simplier. They just did it in a marvelous way. Great job.

olivier1664 11y ago

Look great! I wanted to see more on the calendar it self, but I have not found the demo link on the main page. IMO, you should add a presentation of your calendar without requiring to create an account. https://calendar.sunrise.am/ https://calendar.sunrise.am/ (and also: add a link from your blog to your product)