24me is rolling out a new way to send gifts straight form your calendar! It's pretty awesome, and they're launching a whole new gift market from popular retailers with over 100 gift items in each category .
The way it works is they're adding gift buttons next to special events on the calendar (like birthdays, anniversaries) and with just one tap you can choose a gift and schedule when it will be sent. Thereโs no need for shipping address. You can download 24me on iOS here
This is really interesting by 24me, and the founders @liatmord & @hertanu will be here to answer questions all day (and maybe have a surprise ๐)
@giligolander Thanks! It's actually great timing for that as well, but think about all the events sitting in your calendar: all the birthdays, bachelorette parties, Bar Mitzvahs, weddings or just a simple thank you's! Now - instead of making a list based on your reminders - just tap a button - and get it done!
Hey @giligolander - the people you sent gift to will receive the specific giftcard for the item you bought to their email! that's simplifies all the process.
@giligolander Happy to explain - A link to the purchased gift is sent to the recipient along with a gift card they can use to purchase the suggested gift, or anything else if they prefer. That way they can enter their own shipping address and select the perfect size and color for the gift before it's shipped. If they don't need or want that gift, they have the full flexibility to use the gift card to purchase anything else.
Gifting is an "untamed beast!". Huge potential here and so many angles. I love the fact you are focusing on the day to day hassle free send a gift easily to practically anyone.
At the end of the day, I would probably go store by store to get my wife the right thing but when it comes to all other, this can make a lot of sense. I think I'm seeing ( on average ) 10 people on my FB list a day that have B-Day's. 10-15% of those are worth more than a wall post.
In most cases time ( our most valuable resource ) is the blocker. Gonna try it out
@wolkomir thanks for joining the discussion. You're right, there's a huge potential around helping people getting their things done. We already helping people by reminding them about their bill payments and they can even pay their bills right from the calendar. The addition of the gifts is another angle of turning static reminders into dynamic ones.
We would like to thank all of you who joined the discussion here, and for asking great questions about the product. Special thanks to @nivo0o0 for hunting 24me Micro-Gifting and @bentossell from @ProductHunt for providing us this amazing platform.
Thanks for hunting us, @nivo0o0
The idea of 24me is to solve the hassle around time management and daily life routines, and create a personal assistant that gathers all into one place (calendar, tasks, notes and personal accounts) and makes life simpler by automatic completion of tasks & errands.
Today we are releasing another cool addition to 24me: Micro-Gifting. Based on our algorithms 24me adds gift buttons next to special events on your calendar. With only one tap, you can choose any gift you would like and schedule when it will be sent. No need for shipping address, and the prices are the same as sold by the retailers. Easy. Fast. Hassle Free. This beautiful gift market is powered by our friends at @jifitigifts
Weโve got 100 Starbucks giftcards for the first 100 Product Hunt users will buy their first gift via 24me.
Shoutout to the awesome @my24me team for putting this together so quickly.
Would love to hear your feedback, Thanks!
@nelnel00 -- Thank you so much Christo! We really want to make the personal assistant experience easy and helpful - like a real personal assistant would do in real life.
@eytanlevit Hi Eythan, great question - we actually using one of the leading payment platforms called @Zoozpayments very secured, anti fraud. We also support @PayPal
@eytanlevit great point - we actually can get there on time even if it's today. once you send it to your friend - a giftcard for that specific gift arrives immediately to her inbox. it's actually a perfect solution for same day event!
Hey everyone, this is Gilad, CEO of 24me. We are rolling out a very cool feature today with our friends at Jifiti. 24me as your personal assistant gets more resourceful day by day. With today's announcement, 24me proactively reminds you about special events and can take care of gifting for you.
Thanks @guygamzu - scheduling a gift is as simple as scheduling a meeting. Once you choose a gift you have two options: 1) send today 2) pick a day
choose 'Pick a day' for sending a gift for any other day and select the day on the date picker.
Hey @yairba and thanks for joining the discussion.
The main difference of this feature other than any other gifting services is that its triggered from your calendar and tasks proactively, much like a real personal assistant. It works in a way which is very similar to scheduling a meeting on your calendar, with the ability to schedule sending gifts based on reminders you already have there.
There are two ways of using this service: 1) 24me adds gift buttons next to special occasions on your calendar so you can just hit the button and send any gift from the different categories 2) you can add a "gift" task and relate it to one of your contacts.
an activity like sending a gift, is an action that does not happen regularly, but needs to happen periodically. It makes so much sense to have this baked into a calendar app. great way to scratch a real itch in the market
Hi everyone! Shaul from Jifiti here. We're proud to be partnering with 24me and powering the gift market in the app. Our goal is to make gifting as easy, quick and fun as possible by allowing users to send gifts from leading retailers without having to leave the 24me app. All the sender needs to enter is the email or cellphone number of the recipient and a nice message. A link to the purchased gift is sent to the recipient along with a gift card they can use to purchase the suggested gift, or anything else if they prefer. That way they can enter their own shipping address and select the perfect size and color for the gift.
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