ππ» Hey, Product Hunt!
I'm thrilled to share a little experiment I built with @chris_gradwohl and @jipvandervelde π
Available is a Chrome Extension that allows you to easily share your calendar availability inside of your Gmail compose/reply view. The best partββit pastes the times as plain text.
I've been a user of various calendar scheduling tools in the past, but always felt awkward sending a branded widget or URL to my recipient asking them to book time on *my* calendar. Especially if I was the one asking for their time.
I've been using this extension for a few weeks and it has saved me quite a bit of time by not having to switch between Gmail and my calendar tabs every time I'm coordinating a meeting request!
Excited to share this with y'all. If you have any questions/run into bugs, feel free to DM me on Twitter (@_shahedk) or email me shahedkhan30@gmail.com :-)
I tested it out, and I couldn't believe it was already existing in Gmail compose screen.
Brilliant tool.
Would love to insert a link for the recipient to select the timeslot and book a meeting themselves as well (in the next version).
A super handy tool for people having lots of meetings and not using tools like Calendly. I just tried it and it works perfectly!
@chris_gradwohl@jipvandervelde@_shahedk really small improvement for Available:
It would be great to be able to display the calendar from Monday to Sunday and not Sunday to Saturday
Congrats on launching!
I was so excited to use it but unfortunately it only supports your primary calendar, Its only useful to me if I can load up my personal, family, and work calendars...
Been test using this for a few weeks now. Just so happy to see someone working to fill the gap that Sunrise left when MSFT acquired it. Love that you can easily switch the meeting lengths and fire over options after a quick select+insert. Congrats @_shahedk and thanks for being so responsive.
Great product guys!! How different is this from the Mixmax calendar book in gmail that allows you drop in time slots and if a users clicks on it you both get invites?
@_shahedk - this is amazing. Your problem analysis is spot on . . . particularly about the optics of asking someone to book time on Calendly when you are asking for their time.
GREAT WORK!
So, I've used the tool now.
love this but it does half of the job. Following things could be improved:
- adding time availability for folks in the recipients timezone
- adding a way to automatically show the "availability of the both users"