I've a project from which I integrated "two ways" calendar event management with Google Calendar, I'm about to make it more general since I don't have enough client in the specific niche it is. Looking for the features to add. The 10x better I have in mind is: Chat to handle events (+ GCal events as well). Feedback?
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Ex: I've been pretty happy with https://zcal.co which seems to target people who are looking for more personalization of invite links (I've mostly been using it because it is cheaper than other options for all the functionality I care about).
I include meeting links to our Whereby.com account which is by far the best video conferencing app around. No BS invitations, scheduling, codes etc. Just knock and enter the room.
For me, as a casual user, I would love the calendly type experience to be integrated with the video call. So you send a link, arrange the time, and then the same link takes me onto that call (no separate teams/zoom logging in etc.)
Maybe the job interview niche as you pointed out is a good candidate for 1 no matter if the company also uses zoom or teams which is very interesting, I'll expand my investigation in this, it looks like zoom and some other popular service offer web integration so that could be a great combo (w/ calendar app) in term of easiness of implementation and market value
So I‘ve usually said something like: “what’s the best time for you? You can also pick a time here if easier:”
But maybe there’s a product experience that can solve / prevent this problem.
Anecdotally, people ~40+ do take it personally as parent comment mentioned. It's a "your time is more important than mine" feeling by putting the onus on them. Around ~40% of the time, more senior people have ignored a booking link, and responded with times that work for them, requiring additional messages to confirm everything.
People under ~40 almost always use the link without issue, and usually send a confirmation email or message. People <30 don't respond to the message, just book and I assume we're good to go.
Now I use a "Let me know if there's a good time for you. Otherwise, here are 3 slots and my booking link" message.
Even had to make a Google Sheets app script to list my open 1.5+hr slots for the next 3 weeks to help with pre-populating that.
Every time I try to use Calendly, it fails because I've disabled Google Calendar from my Google Account. I'm trying to slowly switch to Fastmail instead.
https://savvycal.com/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-calendar-updates/
Cal.com supports it (in beta): https://cal.com/apps/caldav-calendar
But it is hit or miss, e.g. it doesn't work with my Purelymail account.