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Arrange — Create a shareable calendar in seconds
Arrange is the easiest way to create, share, and manage a schedule that others can add to their calendars in seconds. Arrange uses AI to convert plain-text dates and times into sets of calendar events that can be shared with anyone in an instant.
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Using Arrange to communicate the details of my multi-site wedding weekend to 245 guests was a major stress saver. Much as everyone loves a pretty invitation, calendar holds with details on the one thing everyone seems to take everywhere (their phone) was key. Many guests were appreciative and indeed surprised and delighted by the experience.
@anne_claire_roesch Thank you for sharing Anne-Claire!! I love hearing this.
I've been fortunate to see the evolution of Arrange from its inception, and I couldn't be more excited to see this hitting Product Hunt today! Curious who you find have been your biggest users?
@cgoodmac great question Chris - so far, it's been people who are responsible for communicating lots of important event dates and times to a group of people. We've seen a variety of event types - from summits and conferences, to cohorts and courses, to schools and campus events - but the commonality is that the sender has a set of events that they need to share with others, and their current options are either (a) creating tons of separate calendar invites, which is often too time consuming so they don't bother, or (b) sharing the event info in some other 'easier to create' format, like email or PDF. In the latter case, there is a ton of frustration for recipients, who want the event info added to their calendars, and have to enter it manually.
Have loved following this product since early beta - check it out and congrats to @bfmuir and the Arrange team!!
Congrats on the launch! So cool to see the evolution of Arrange and how all the learnings have come together in this new product.
@jessicakchen Thank you Jess! It's been really fun to build and get early user feedback :)
Nice to see some real progress in the calendar space! A part of me does ever time I manually retype follow ups as future events.
@dostermueller thanks Dan! We've heard that same pain point from lots of users - that manually entering events into the calendar is too much work. Between AI import and fast event duplication, we've really tried to make the process of getting events in the calendar as fast as possible.
This is really cool! I feel like there's something here where it'll help me keep all my family's medical appointments straight...
@sehreentech Oh, interesting - how do you currently keep track of them all? Do they auto-populate on your calendar?
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I run a group coaching experience, and I used Arrange to get all invites on calendars for clients. My process went from individual invites (many many clicks and redundant actions) to adjusting everything in one place. It felt almost like my own calendar dashboard for my clients. Absolutely loved it!!!
@simran_dua "my own calendar dashboard for my clients" is a first for me - absolutely love hearing this Simran. Our goal is to make this process easier and I'm so glad Arrange has for you!
Such a great way for us to keep all of our students and community members up to date on everything going on at Yale! So easy to upload and share events; and, for students to be able to integrate these into their existing calendars. Love it!
@jennifer_mcfadden Thank you Jen! Love hearing that Arrange is helping keep Yale students informed about what's happening on campus.
One more question:
I have a personal calendar and a work calendar. I HATE it when I book a personal event on my personal calendar and then it is not blocked on my work calendar so someone books a meeting. Do you think if I have a fun calendar with me and my fiance, we can add events that we want to go to on there and have it sync to our personal and work calendars, making it a lot easier to manage?
@ahmed_elsamadisi1 I actually have a better fix for this that doesn't involve Arrange, hah! You should be able to import your personal calendar into your work one, and add events to your work calendar as "busy" so that details are hidden, but times are blocked. I have 5 calendars (2 work/3 personal, including one that is shared with my husband) and I manage all of them from 1 view in Google Calendar.
That said, I've also created plenty of 'fun' Arrange schedules with friends (or solo) for travel and other activities :)
I run Narrator.ai a data company helping business make better decisions. How can I use Arrange to optimize my workload?
I am thinking: Eng Calendars, or maybe smaller events like Epic calendars so we can have our meetings really clearly laid out.
Also how does it scale for lots of users?
@ahmed_elsamadisi1 such a good question Ahmed! A few thoughts:
- For sending a single, recurring calendar event - say, a team meeting on Tuesdays - it's unclear that there would be a huge benefit to using Arrange, since you only need to create and send the invite once.
- For sharing a set of related meetings - say, your quarterly planning meetings, or the schedule for your team offsite - creating the schedule in Arrange would almost certainly be faster than doing it in the calendar - our UI is simple (you can edit in place so you don't lose track of where you are, and also duplicate events to quickly create new ones). It would also solve the 'clearly laid out' problem for both the maker and the recipients, since Arrange allows you to easily visualize a set of related events, which can get a bit lost in the calendar.
- As for how Arrange scales for lots of users, any given schedule can support thousands of subscribers - we designed the experience to meet the needs of 1:many. Schedule makers can also add collaborators to create and manage schedules together.
I'd love to know, what do your Eng and Epic calendars look like? How do you build and share them today?
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@bfmuir This makes a lot of sense. I didn't realize I can have many subscribers. I thought the only options with collaborators.
YOUR RECOMMENDATION: Give arrange to my Ops team/ Eng Manager/ etc.. Have everyone on the team and company subscribe to these calendars. So every time a new event/series of events come, EVERYONE will see a nice series of invites with context!
Did I get that right?
@bfmuir Now we actually create many calendars that people subscribe too and it makes things quite messy since it is not syncing.
@ahmed_elsamadisi1 To the extent you have teammates who are planning/scheduling/communicating sets of meetings, yes - any of them could use Arrange to build a schedule and share it with recipients in one fell swoop. Once someone has added that schedule, any changes to its events (title, start/end time, date, details, etc) are automatically synced to subscribers' calendars.
@ahmed_elsamadisi1 one neat feature in Arrange for makers/sharers is the Gallery view, which is especially helpful if you are managing multiple schedules at once. It very quickly tells you the title of the schedule, how many events it contains, the first and last date, etc. Extremely scannable. I think the biggest difference is that the 'atomic unit' in Arrange is the schedule, unlike the calendar where it is the single event.
I use Google Calendar and tidycal for pretty much everything. Does this incorporate with those?
@kingromstar Hi Rami! Yes, Arrange works with Google and Microsoft calendars (you can create an account using SSO for either) and Apple, so long as you already have a Google or Microsoft address connected.
I attended a wedding with all of the weekend's events easily added to my calendar via one click of an Arrange link and it seriously blew everyone's minds how practical and valuable this is. Calendar events to keep us on schedule are valuable enough - but to have the events populated with the relevant info and details - huge. As someone who lives and dies by my calendar but who also has to wrangle a lot of other people too across work and life, the possibilities here are endless.
@j0ycer thank you Joyce! I love hearing this - our goal is to make sharing a set of calendar events seamless for all involved, and it sounds like this was your experience. Thanks so much for sharing your experience.
Incredible way to keep yourself organized - I use my calendar as my todo list, event planning, and social-check in graph. Impossible to imagine being a parent and an executive without great calendar tools. Thanks for making this.
Arrange
Hello Product Hunt! 👋
This is Bridgette, one of the founders of Arrange.
We’re super excited to share a new product with you today: easy shareable calendars.
We built this out of our own frustration with how hard it is to share a set of calendar events. Sending a single calendar invite is easy, but sharing an entire set of events is a hassle. So people resort to sharing important dates and times in plain text format – via email, docs and PDFs – which are a huge pain for their recipients to add to their calendars.
Some fun facts about calendar usage 👀
🗓️ 70% of adults rely on a digital calendar 📱 #2 most used app on all devices after email ❗ People check their calendars up to 10x/day 💡 People are 86% more likely to take action if there’s an event in their calendarsWe knew there had to be a better way to send someone a set of calendar events at once, so we built a simple alternative that makes creating, sharing, and managing a calendar easy for everyone 😊
Here’s how Arrange works:
📄 Import or paste a schedule in any format (PDF, image, screenshot, plain text) ✨ Convert it to a set of calendar events in seconds using AI 🎨 Customize your schedule page with a title, details and photo 🔗 Share via link with anyone, who can add it to their calendars with 1 tap or click 😅 Edit details any time to instantly update subscribers’ calendarsSo far, people have used Arrange to add tens of thousands of events to their calendars for stuff like:
- The agenda and panel speaker details for a VC/founder conference - Meeting dates for a cohort-based coaching group for singles - Upcoming entrepreneurial events on a university campus - PTA meetings and events for an elementary school - Holidays and staff closure dates for a daycare center - Class sessions and office hours for courses on mindfulness, data science, and finance - The conference schedule for a women's tech summit - The recruitment schedule for Panhellenic rush - Game times for an intramural ice hockey league - ...and even wedding weekend detailsIn all of this, our focus has been singular: to make the user experience seamless for calendar sharers and subscribers alike.
For calendar subscribers, we’ve focused on ease of use and simplicity:
📲 One-click to add to calendar ➕ Filters to add or hide desired events 🤳 No separate app to download 📅 Works with existing calendar apps (Google, Microsoft, Apple) 🔔 Calendars auto-update if the schedule changesWe’ve also built helpful tools for calendar sharers, like a subscriber dashboard to track who’s added your schedule, and the ability to embed your Arrange schedule on your own website.
It would mean the world to us for you to check out Arrange if any of this resonates with you! Anyone can use Arrange for free and our Basics plan is free forever :) Even if you don’t have a schedule to share with others, you can use our AI upload to add the events from any plain text schedule to your calendar in about 30 seconds ⚡
If you have any questions or feedback, we’ll be here all day to answer them! Thanks again for the support.
-Bridgette, Lorenzo & Katie from Arrange