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CalendarX — Get a calendar your audience can follow
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@thinker Great question Nick!
In our lines of business, the more subscribers you have, the more work (support) we need to take care of. Your users reach out to us before they reach out to you, and we want to make sure that you and your users get a great experience with the service. Being a self-funded company, we need to grow with our users, so that's why the number of subscribers is the scalable factor in CalendarX.
When we started our company we thought we could just put up a good FAQ. Turns out many people prefer one-to-one support.
This is awesome. I've literally been waiting years for something like this. We tried embedding upto and Google Calendar, both are far less than optimal and there's no way to know how many people are actually following.
Do you have a weekly view? Once a week, we manually share a post about "this week's events" to our community. Our analyst spends a lot of time manually copy pasting events and creating graphics for a newsletter and then a facebook post. We would gladly pay to automate this.
@muninjlm Thank you so much Roy! Yes, Google Calendar is a great calendar tool for our ordinary needs, but not "really" suitable for sharing with many users.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "week view". Our embeddable calendar (in this example the calendar page on calendarx.com) has a week view: https://www.calendarx.com/calend...
Reach out at support@addevent.com if you have questions and have a great weekend!
This is actually really interesting as a marketing tool. Testing asap. @boetter @michaelnilsson
@elizabethhunker Thank you Elizabeth! Get back to us if you have any questions!
I like this!
I've been making a few Messenger bots recently and one thing I've manually 'hacked' is a notification/subscription system where users are notified when something happens (if they have chosen to be of course) like a live event.
Having this as a plugin/integration could be really cool
Thanks so much Jacob for hunting CalendarX.com.
We are EXCITED to announce that we just launched CalendarX – a calendar your audience can follow.
“When a user follows your CalendarX calendar, you can push your important events to their personal calendar”.
CalendarX is stuffed with kick-ass features and can be used for many different things, e.g. school, sports and event schedules - or promote special deals, grow sales and keep customers returning for more.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
@michaelnilsson So far very impressed. Signed up, added some items and embedded the calendar on my website. Will kick more of the tires of other features but so far so good!
Ooh. Subscribing to calendars sounds very interesting and I like how it ties into customer lifecycle management. For example, we're thinking of doing weekly demo sessions with our customers and giving them an easy way to subscribe would be awesome! One question, does this support in-app (not mobile) push notifications? Great job! @michaelnilsson
@sethgoldstein Hi Seth, thanks for your feedback. I'm pasting a similar question and response.
Google Calendar is great!
CalendarX makes it very easy for users to subscribe to a calendar. With Google Calendar (and other calendars) it's a real hassle. Your average user wouldn't even bother.
With CalendarX you have the opportunity to add custom fields to a subscribe form, which the user can enter prior to subscribing to the calendar. That enables you to know who that subscriber is, where he is from etc.
You also have the option to block a subscriber. Useful if you use it for your company, and an employee left the company - you would want to block him from accessing the calendar.
CalendarX has statistics too. How many people is following your calendar, who un-followed etc.
Last but not least CalendarX has an embeddable calendar as well, which can be custom styled to fit your website design.
We use Google Calendar and I agree it's a pain. Is it possible to import from Google Calendar?
@chezacke Hi Chez! Yes it is. We sync external calendars every hour. You can add any external calendar as long as they can provide a calendar feed (.ics file).
Just going to throw this out there .... 31events.com ... fully integrated event invitations via email and website. One click and the invitation is sent. Think about it.
Hey guys! Awesome product, I love it. Please add support for the Russian language, me and my team would really appreciate it :) Right now, if we setup the follow page with the text in Russian, it only shows ???????? symbols :( something with fonts I guess
@vasily_kuznetsov Hi Vasily, thanks so much for letting us know. It was tested with a lot of different languages, but they all belonged to the latin character sets. Russian has been added along with (hopefully) any other language.
I will like to do a Kickstarter presentation of my product (live camera), but will love to engage people on your app to get on the event. I think will be very functional and show at fully extent the capabilities of your app.
while searching for calendar app I bumped into this one, which seems great, but it looks like it doesn't allowed new registrations anymore
any suggested alternative?
What an interesting business idea, I loved the product/simplicity you built with addevent.com, and this tool makes a lot of sense too! Looking forward to implementing this into many, many solutions in the future!
If I can only think of school schedules, the local gym, the family schedule, up to a car garage managing personal one-to-one appointments with their customers...
About that last thing, would that be an interesting idea? Right now it's 'push' (meaning one on one appointment for car service, or a gym membership for instance would require me to get an e-mail, add the appointment to my schedule, etc. etc.) instead of pull, but it would be a 1-to-1 connection still, and this service suits 1-to-N more. Just thinking with you guys!
@kees_romkes Thank you so much, Kees! Your feedback was an awesome way to kick off the weekend!
CalendarX suits 1-to-N but could definitely be interesting for 1-to-1 communication as well. We're adding an API which could enable that approach very easily this month. Thanks for thinking out loud :-)
Hi Michael. Looks great but I wondering why I should use it? Where is the advantage over the f.ex Google Calendar? Tell us something more.
@marcinodchyl1 @aramiggs Thanks for asking guys!
Google Calendar is great!
CalendarX makes it very easy for users to subscribe to a calendar. With Google Calendar (and other calendars) it's a real hassle. Your average user wouldn't even bother.
With CalendarX you have the opportunity to add custom fields to a subscribe form, which the user can enter prior to subscribing to the calendar. That enables you to know who that subscriber is, where he is from etc.
You also have the option to block a subscriber. Useful if you use it for your company, and an employee left the company - you would want to block him from accessing the calendar.
CalendarX has statistics too. How many people is following your calendar, who un-followed etc.
Last but not least CalendarX has an embeddable calendar as well, which can be custom styled to fit your website design.
@michaelnilsson @marcinodchyl1 thanks for the answer, Michael. The idea of reimagining calendar functionality looks really promissing. Hope this grows into something really Big! Good luck!
I really really like this - excited to see how it develops. Feel like there are plenty of not-yet-thought-of possibilities when you bring in the social aspect to calendars.
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