Hello Dan,
thank you for your answer! You're right there is still a need in optimizing the landing page. In fact the whole page was developed for a customer development course at university. So I really appreciate feedback on the psychological parts of increasing the "customer" base!
Beste Grüße aus München :)
Since timeup is for free I think that a good way to go into that direction is to completely expose our API and make it publicly available.
Than everybody who wants can create addons for several kind of devices and other software. Right now the API is still very tiny and in my opinion it should stay like that. Only a very small selection of additional features will come.
So far our capacity (only 2 devs) is very very limited to support all kind of other software / devices in short time. (We're still students and doing timeup as a small side project - We saw the need of that tool when trying to organize meetings for learning groups)
Something related is going on with json and email with fastmail[1] -- a standard needs to bee free/open, and have a usable free/open implementation.
That way people can pay you for the convenience of a service, and not be afraid to be left in the cold once you move on to other things/get hit by a bus/get bought by doodle and they decide to fold your service etc.
Another example is Mozilla sync, which has a nice and viable self-hosting solution (both for the new and old sync)[2]. Not that Mozilla is charging for the sync service, but IMNHO they probably could - perhaps giving paying users a larger quota. Not that the free quota is a limit; more as a sensible way for users to support the project.
[1] http://jmap.io/ (Note that jmap is a reaction to a) the cruft that's been assimilated in IMAP, b) the need for webmail anyway (so rather than have what is essentially a http-to-imap proxy (squirrel, horde/imp) -- just have the mail server speak http).
Would you like them to be always visible or when you are doing a mouse hover over the color? In addition, how would you solve the problem that there are multiple time slots where the number X of your peers can attend but at each of the different time slots it's a different subgroup of all attendees.
I agree, next time we'll post a link directly to the page! As soon our short explanatory video is done there is no need for a landing page in between. It will be available on the top right corner.
Meet by Sunrise is definitely also cool tool. I think the difference too them is still the hotspot way of seeing things. In the near future there will be also a keyboard for our "service".
timeup.io focuses on the finding of the best fitting time spots for all event participants. On other platforms the event creator usually determines at which time slots an event should take place. Mostly, these time slots are the ones only the event creator can attend. So there is always a shift to inaccuracy. In addition, the design of timeup.io is very clean and intuitive. This allows an event creator or participant to be extremely quick on the creation or join process.
I read the FAQ but honestly couldn't understand the difference. As with doodle, event creator decides the only available dates and time range. And even if design is cleaner (subjective opinion) people presence group switching (gray/colored) is not so intuitive.
The "design is better" concept generally only works if the thing you're competing with is exceptionally bad in terms of design. I've found Doodle to be very easy to use, even for people who have very little experience with computers.
Personally, I think you're mistaken. Allowing anyone to propose a date outside of the control of the event creator can lead you to confusion for little or no benefit.
Personally, I think the value proposition is to avoid the long back-and-forth messages for finding a suitable time. This is not the same as finding the best fitting time spots for all participants.
Thanks anonymous344, we received the feedback a couple of times the past days. Currently, we are working on the contrast of the elements and fix this point. :)
