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Show HN: Assistant.io - The easiest way to schedule meetings

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Very interesting. If everyone submits a couple of times or even ranges of times when they are free (I'm free Friday between 10am - 2pm except an hour for lunch) then you could use schedule.js (http://bunkat.github.io/schedule/) to automatically suggest the best date and time that works for everyone (sort of like how the newest version of Outlook works).

If you had access to everyone's calendar, you could automatically suggest all available times instead of needing people to propose times and end up with exactly what Outlook does.

Built on Meteor. We're still really early so would love any feedback/bug reports.

I think you could have less steps here. Why not have the person sending out the initial invite pick all the times possible for them, and just let the collaborators choose the ones that work for them, and then send out an email that works for the most people.

I think we might have some bad UX here, you can actually propose multiple times in the wizard (as a creator). We allow other people to propose a time in case none of the original times work for them. We just deployed some stuff that will hopefully make this more clear.

I'm in the market for a solution here, but really need one with calendar integration. If I have to go back and forth between the app and my calendar it doesn't save me that much time over email.

App looks great otherwise.

Thanks for the feedback, we definitely want to make calendar integration a feature.

I've been looking around for something like this. Just signed up. Would love to see a calendar (i.e., https://github.com/arshaw/fullcalendar)

The UI/IX is a bit clunky IMHO - the wizard interface is meh. Lookup http://timebridge.com/ their UI seems more intuitive.

There's no tour or screenshots so I'm judging by the cover. How is this different from http://doodle.com/ ?

Our goal is to provide a UX that is quicker/easier to use than doodle.

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