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@fletchrichman We feel that there are some limitations to a product that only lives in email. The main limitation is that these products are unable to display "mutual availabilities" as where with Pick you can. Another large limitation is that we think it will be difficult for scheduling products that live in email to expand to other platforms such as Exchange and iCloud, currently these products only work in Gmail. Pick will be platform agnostic and support all major email providers.
@michaelselepec i agree, but for the 1-to-1 meetings though the mutual availabilities isn't an issue. i'd love to see pick integrate into gmail, that combined with the ability to schedule with multiple people at once would make it a must have product (that I would pay for)
Looks cool. However, I cannot sign up with my gmail account (already logged in). It says "If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."
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@mpjme This should be fixed now. Please try signing in again and let me know once you're able to get in.
@michaelselepec First impression, 10 seconds in. Use case: Scheduling dinner with a couple of friends. After clicking "schedule time" it asks me to pick from my contacts. I don't have the email of all these people as they are real-life, non-business friends. I would much prefer to just get a link to send them, that I can paste into Facebook messenger, Whatsapp etc.
I had an idea to do something like this, but never did it. Great to see what someone else has done with this idea.
@Smutchings We'd love to hear how you envisioned building a product to address the pains with scheduling. Feel free to shoot me an email michael@pick.co
@tsondermann We do too, that's one of the reasons we created Pick. We actually talked quite a bit to the Tungle team while we were developing Pick.
@tsondermann @thetylerhayes Mainly to keep things simple and clean, mobile-first focus and the importance of personalized URL's.
Hunter
I'm always struggling to find mutual times to meet people, so anything that helps with this is a god send! They've just launched today.
I'm a huge fan of calendar and planning efficiency so the direction is great! One issue I see with this is that it really works well for users who literally use their calendar to markup their ENTIRE DAY by the hour. I use my calendar often but when I don't have an event in my calendar, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm free. If that can be tackled it would be great, especially with the clean UI going on.
Check out @canarycalendar by @varunfive as it used to solve that issue really well before that last update.
@katoree We agree and have plans to incorporate a setting that allows users to set their availability.
this is a great find for those working in sales, constantly forced to blast out emails (or calendar invites) to find times
@samdebrule Absolutely! While anyone who uses a digital calendar can use Pick, we feel that many of our early adopters will be sales professionals.
@tymrtn Currently we support multiple Google accounts. In the near future we will support Exchange and iCloud accounts. Stay tuned!
Questions I look to answer when evaluataing whether I'll try an app like this:
1. What is the specific innovation (value prop) reducing friction?
2. What kind of effort does my invitee need to put into my new way of scheduling meetings?
I find a lot of scheduling apps are unclear about #1, and I prefer #2 to be minimal.
@jasonhitchcock Thanks for reaching out. Below are answers to your questions;
1. We offer real-time mutual availabilities between Pick users, essentially eliminating the back and forth friction that takes place with every other product. In addition, we have made event creation seamless and near effortless via mobile compared to the very cumbersome experience on desktop and other mobile products.
2. The experience is the same for invitees as current experiences. They receive a meeting invite and respond with accept, decline or maybe to the invite.
Hope this helps and feel free to to let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks!
I am excited to try this out. I've struggled with all of the ones in terms of being seem less like Boomerang calendar and assistant.to. Does this require the other person to have the app / service to be effective?
@obenyoung In order to see mutual availabilities with your contacts, all attendees of the event must be on Pick. At the same time, you as a user still get to see your availability and schedule a meeting with non-users. Until our user-base grows significantly we feel that our personalized URL's (e.g. pick.co/benjamin) and the ability to easily create and send invites from your mobile phone are huge value props.
@michaelselepec I grabbed pick.co/ben - I never get Ben! That alone could allow you to See a scramble on digital real estate. It's scary how easy you can change it once you set it. I almost didn't believe I get Ben...
@michaelselepec I think there is a bug because I went to pick.co/Ben didn't see any indication that it was mine.. Scheduled some suggested time and finally saw a small pic of what does not appear to be me, and inside your app it says I have Ben...
@obenyoung We currently do not show profile pictures on personalized Pick link pages.
Looks very similar to Calendly (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...) but it looks like Pick has a slight advantage because of the iOS app. Great find.
@irvingtorresyc Thanks for the support and yes we feel that our iOS app along with a few other differentiators separate us from Calendly and similar products.
@irvingtorresyc We plan on supporting Exchange and iCloud in the very near future. Stay tuned!
@irvingtorresyc @swb1192 Try Meekan Scott (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...), we're already offering our global availability engine, syncing Gmail, iCloud and Exchange calendars, on iOS, Android and Outlook. Simplifying scheduling for individuals and groups, free of course :-)
@michaelselepec Very nice work. Pumped to see where it goes. @swb1192, integrating Google calendars and icloud calendars isn't too hard. I did it a while back and it works pretty much the same way once it's set up properly (both icloud and Google Cal update from Apple Calendar and my iOS app) Here is a somewhat long tutorial. Many of these steps are no longer needed (http://macintoshhowto.com/google...). @dvirreznik, Meekan looks really advanced. Might give it a spin as well. Thanks!
@irvingtorresyc Thanks Irving! Shoot me an email if you have any questions. Would also love to hear your thoughts, how to make Meekan better to meet your needs: dvir@meekan.com.
Just a word of caution (for people adopting this solution):
1. This app automatically grabs your calendar and puts its availability online at an open URL.
2. Right now, when someone goes to that url, they can "invite" you, which means take up a timeslot on your calendar. No email confirmation, no nothing.
3. They see ALL of your availability. Not specific time slots you've pre-approved.
4. No spam filters
I am in dire need of a solution for this general problem, but this app has launched an MVP to much demand but is seriously lacking some common sense. Hopefully the fact that I don't get to approve someone's request to meet is just a bug.
Pro tip: to remove yourself from this service, delete you calendar connection (once you're signed in). If this is a google calendar, it won't let you log back in without selecting that calendar again. Your link will still work (you can see mine at pick.co/dan) but you won't get calendar invites.
I'll stick with X.ai, Assistant.to, and YouCanBook.Me for now.
I'm so glad I tested this myself before jumping in with clients / teammates (something I rarely do).
I know PH is great for early adopters, but even as a hacker, this is too early. Post again in another month?
A few features I would kill for:
1. Ability to limit the hours that I'm available to schedule (Calendly does this). EG- Only available 8am-12pm, 1pm-6pm.
2. As a Google Apps user with read/write access to my coworkers' calendars, I would *love* the ability to:
-A- pull through those calendars into the "Default Calendar" settings (this works with regular Gmail accounts, it seems)
-B- Make those calendars in my GApps org available to the person scheduling the meeting. EG- if a client needs to meet with 3 of 9 team members, they can choose which calendars to compare across, and then choose the time.
3. Ability to hide from Pick any calendar I'm subscribed to. EG- I have some ancillary community calendars under "Other" on my personal GCal, and those events show on "My Availability" but they don't actually conflict with my schedule.
Build a beautiful way to do the above and I'll pay for the Pro subscription tomorrow :)
@ahut All great feedback and thanks for sharing. Below are comments on your feedback:
1. Currently our default time parameters are 8am-8pm. We plan on giving users the ability to edit their availability in the future.
2. Both are great ideas. I just added them to our list of potential features.
3. Another great idea!
We may be hiring soon. Are you looking for a job? ;-)
@ahut Totally agree, the ability to limit the hours that I'm available to schedule is huge @michaelselepec
The idea is very nice, but I think the big problem with these types of apps is that both users need them. How are you going to tackle that problem?
@samuelbeek We completely agree and is one of the main reasons we offer a personalized URL so that early adopters can share their availability with others. We feel that our personalized URL's will really help with the "cold start" problem startups often face.
@samuelbeek Assistant.to solves this problem quite elegantly. It's shortcoming? Only 1v1 meetings.
@samuelbeek The way we solve that problem at www.producthunt.com/posts/vyte is with a voting system: organizers can suggest several dates and invitees can vote of them.
Nice. On a related note, this was in TC a while back: https://x.ai/ - not launched yet, but looks pretty cool.
@edmoyse There are a variety of products trying to tackle all of the issues associated with scheduling meetings and we feel that by offering a product via web and app, opposed to Cc'ing someone like X.ai, that we can be platform agnostic and have a much more seamless user experience.
@edmoyse @michaelselepec I'm a beta user of x.ai and can't imagine going back to anything else - you don't have to have a separate app, you don't have to leave your email, you don't have to even specify how long the meeting is (Amy will assume 45 minutes unless you say otherwise). X.ai doesn't require that anyone else is using it and you don't have to be on a particular platform.
@edmoyse it's awesome! ;-) I think the best scheduling solution we've seen to date, is the $45,000 (human) personal assistant, which you can simply ask to do the job. "Hey Samantha, set something up with Ed end of month, when he is in New York". The only flaw with "Samantha" is that she's an expensive girl. However, if she would work for free or a few bucks a month, I'd love to have her run my calendar. OR if somebody would turn her into an AI. *therein lies my bias :)
@edmoyse I love x.ai. I only use it on my personal email for now, which kind of limits how I can use it. I would love to figure out a way to share access to when I am busy on my work calendar, without giving direct access. I'm always hyper sensitive about security stuff. probably more paranoid then necessary, though!
@dhulser Once you create a Pick account you can then create a personalized URL (e.g. pick.co/dylan) that you can share with your contacts (user or non-users) to find a time on your calendar to schedule a meeting with you.
Co-founder here. We are very excited to launch Pick! Our goal is to once and for all eliminate the "back and forth" that often occurs when trying to find a time to meet with your contacts. In addition, we want to make it much easier and seamless for people to create and send meeting invites from their mobile phone instead of the desktop. We also want to make it easy for Pick users to share their availability with non-users and is why we offer personalized Pick URL's (e.g. pick.co/yourname).
Below is how our product differentiates from the rest of the products in our space:
-Display mutual availabilities
-Mobile app
-Seamless and effortless event creation via mobile (most people create and send invites via desktop)
-Personalized Pick URL (e.g. pick.co/yourname)
I look forward to hearing from all of you and all of the great feedback that often comes from the Product Hunt community!
-Michael
michael@pick.co
Hey Hunters! I wanted to let everyone know that Pick will soon be releasing support for Microsoft O365 & Exchange. Sign up here to be notified once it's released: pick.co/microsoft
As always feel free to reach out to us with any questions or feedback. Happy Scheduling!
-Michael
@michaelselepec I'm not sure what's causing this, but I'm not seeing any meeting invites come through even though my clients are steadfast that they've correctly/successfully submitted multiple requests. I'd really love to avoid asking them to go through that again or use a different application because that seems very unprofessional. Support hasn't responded to my requests so I'm hoping you'll be a bit more responsive. Thanks!
Impressed with how much heat there is in this space - spotted this about x.ai http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapi...
@0x11ff @toobulkeh great comment, and I think you are absolutely right - that this could potentially be a winner-takes-all market. I am obviously rooting for x.ai :-)
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