This is a Boost company, so I am bias, but I believe it to be the best in the category of scheduling products. I use it on a daily basis, and have only been impressed.
@adamdraper you're a whale on Sunsama. you've scheduled more conversations than anyone else. I don't know if we mentioned it but we rolled out an update that takes care of travel time when it schedules your meetings. turns out thats really valuable when you've got meetings spread from Menlo Park to SF.
Basically, you sync your Google Calendar and connect to people from your network, and set times when you have time to meet/chat/whatever.
I haven't used it yet, but I like the sound of "the world's time network". However, I did sign up because I'll need this pretty soon...
@v4violetta@preslavrachev Doodle is probably a better option for poll based group scheduling. I mentioned this before but Sunsama is focused on scheduling based on relationships and trusted groups (feature coming soon).
awesome hunt! i know the team very well - love what they are doing with this product. have used it in the past and it has saved me some time with scheduling.
Another challenge for both @thepriyadarshy and @saintmac: dealing with multiple Calendar platforms. Solve the scheduling problem, make it multiplatform (both in terms of operating system and calendar format), and secretaries in academia will rejoice!
Looks pretty good. We're solving the same problem with a similar approach @ http://vyte.in, but we think proper calendar views are easier to understand than a list of times. Also we handle group meetings as well as 1:1.
@saintmac vyte.in looks awesome! sounds like it would be great for group conversations where you want to give everyone a chance to vote. we're more focused on building a social network where people share their time and discover interesting conversations. we'll be rolling out a bunch of features in the coming weeks to focus more on group-based networks and a social feed. its probably a vision difference but we don't want to focus on calendars we want to focus on people. our group scheduling only unlocked for power users right now :)
I like this idea. In practice, I'm not sure how easy it'll be to get the people in my academic environment to sign up to a new service like this, but here's hoping.
On a side note: the logo's very similar to Sunrise! (http://www.sunrise.am)
@ryanjamurphy thanks ryan. we're working hard on a new logo :) love to know more about the challenges you think you'd face getting your community onboard
@thepriyadarshy Just pasting my reply from Twitter:
'Just "sign up for another new service" friction-it's tough demanding that a colleague use a new service to work with you!'
My biggest problem with scheduling lately is not being able to send the other person my day schedule. All I want is an app that allows me to send a person my schedule for one day (while keeping events private) and say "choose from these parameters". Assistant.to attempts this but fails to address timezones and only sends open time slots. Just let me choose the day and let me send it to the other person on email. That's all I need.
I've had the pleasure of mucking around with this tool through a few permutations. Having tried a ton of these types of "virtual assistant" services, I've got to say this one has been really impressive so far. Even though it's still early.
@fridsun hey yufan! i'm ashutosh, one of the co-founders of sunsama. looks like you've got a good idea about what you'd like in a scheduling application. i'd love to learn more about what you'd like to see in Sunsama. also just to be transparent our discovery and social feed features are still in the works and won't be released for sometime. feel free to drop me a line on sunsama if you want to share product feedback in person/skype: https://sunsama.com/ashutosh or you can e-mail me ashutosh@sunsama.com
Anybody remember Tungle.me ? - Similar in some ways. Bought by RIM and shuttered in 2012. https://www.crunchbase.com/organ... - On that note, anybody have a hint on how to add a related product?
There are so many of these. And they are all amazing and some things and entirely disappointing for some things. I feel like I've tried all of them. And, I even built an MVP at a Startup Weekend. There is no shortage of pain to resolve in this space.
I am loving Sunsama's version because (1) it does such a good job of automatically blocking out times from *multiple* calendars, and (2) their focus on groups or networks. I have multiple networks setup in Sunsama and have very different blocks of time available to those groups than what is available generally to the public.
Beyond the general "lets grab a time for a call" or "do you want a coffee" I am even using it to schedule Professional sessions: https://sunsama.com/thomasknoll/...
I am definitely cheering them on and hope they stick around!
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