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Show HN: Kali – Scheduling Assistant for iOS

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27 pointsevansjp23 comments

Hey HN! Launching Kali today and I'm super excited to iterate on this.

I hate scheduling and my gf got sick of managing my calendar for me, so I made an AI do it instead. :)

Please let me know what you think!

Australia: “App not available”

Are you open to turning off the country restrictions? These restrictions are so frustrating as it means we miss out just because of where we live.

Not available in Japan either. Would also like to check it out.

You're absolutely right, I'll get an update out here to lift the country restriction.

Aussie here adding an up vote!

What’s your target for percentage of ancillary appointments that are accepted? I’m intrigued by the idea, but in the screenshot it shows 2 use cases that don’t make much sense to me: do most people really schedule dry cleaning around a meeting? Would I really carve out time to pick up flowers for an airport pickup?

The suggestions could be nice, but if I find myself rejecting 90%+ then they would be a hassle…

That's actually a super good idea for a metric I didn't think about tracking and I love that you commented that.

This is kind of awesome.

I could see this getting Sherlocked by Siri, which you can take as a compliment.

Thank you!

I'd be flattered for sure. I think there's a lot of uncaptured value in AI to API requests, in general. Imagine an app that schedules "Flight at LAX at 2pm", but also offering to order the Uber to the Airport in time to get there 2 hours before departure. Sounds pretty cool to me and until OpenAI's GPT Plugins have broader support, I'll build that :)

I like the idea but I’d prefer the flirting off by default. Also, I asked for a simple lunch appointment tomorrow and it suggested the lunch but added a reservation for later in the afternoon.

Haha alright, I can turn off flirting by default for the next update. And how late in the afternoon did it suggest for a lunch?

:-) Thanks. And for the lunch I believe it was the correct time but then it added a later event to book it (i.e. after the lunch), maybe at 5pm.

Only comment is that out of 3 activities suggested for playing bg3 with friends tonight at 10pm, only one of them is now in my calendar (and it’s not the one actually playing bg3). I had altered the times of two of the suggested events and one of the two altered ones is in the calendar.

What was the time for the event that didn't show up in the calendar? Was it something till midnight?

One of the events that wasn’t added was until midnight, yes. The other was something like 9:30-9:45pm

What's a simple example use case for this software? I understand "scheduling assistant" but what does it actually do?

Also, what's the AI component?

If I were your assistant managing your schedule and you come to me and say "I have a sales meeting next Tuesday." Of course I'd schedule the sales meeting, but I might also schedule time for you to 1) Research the client, 2) Drop off dry-cleaning to look sharp for the meeting, 3) A time to pick up that dry-cleaning.

That's what a "scheduling assistant" does. :)

AI is good at reasoning what other events should be scheduled along w/ an event.

Thanks for your question!

If the sales meeting is next Thursday why does Kali show it on Tuesday in the screengrab on the AppStore?

Why did you choose to make Kali a "she"?

Kali is the Hindu goddess of time--also of death but we'll ignore that for now lol--and she is a "she".

Your software will be impossible to search for because there is already a very popular and highly discussed software with the same name.

I was taking the strategy of no one has an iOS app called "Kali", but perhaps it's a bad strategy. We'll have to see. For now I just want to know if the app is something people like :P

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kali-security/id1538756589

Just searching for “Kali” in the App Store yields countless applications about learning Linux, Ethical Hacking, Bash, etc.

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