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Jeremy Bell

Mayday - The AI-assisted calendar that helps you make time to thrive.

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Mayday is an AI-assisted calendar that helps you take control of your day so that you can be more intentional with your time. Organize all of your calendars in one place, schedule your priorities at ideal times, and protect your day from too many meetings.

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Jeremy Bell
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I’m Jeremy, founder and CEO of Mayday, and I’m excited to launch the Public Beta version of our all-new AI-assisted calendar. This means that anyone can now download Mayday if they are using Google Calendar and an Apple device. And for all Product Hunt users today, it’s free to use! How is Mayday different from other calendar apps? - Mayday is native software, built using SwiftUI for Apple devices on macOS, iOS and iPadOS – we’ve optimized the product with feature parity across all your devices right out of the box. - Mayday learns as you use it to predict the most ideal times to schedule your different priorities. And we do this in a way that keeps your privacy at the forefront - your data belongs to you. - Mayday understands your True Availability by bringing all of your work and personal calendars into one place. And with automations and tools to manage all of your obligations in one place, you can achieve schedule/priority fit. Features and benefits of using Mayday - ❇️ AI-based scheduling at Ideal Times – The more you use Mayday, the smarter it gets. Mayday evaluates your scheduling preferences and patterns to find the Ideal Times for everything you schedule. - 🏷️ Smart tags – Keep your calendar organized. Categorize your events with Smart Tags, and Mayday can apply powerful automations for different types of events. - 🔗 AI-Assisted scheduling links — Use one-off or reusable scheduling links to open up your schedule to meet with others, and Mayday will make ideal time suggestions based on your personal preferences - 🛡️ Calendar Shield – Protect your time so you’re never overbooked. Set a daily threshold or manually invoke Calendar Shield to protect your day from filling up with too many meetings. - 🗣️ NLP for event creation – Create events using the same language you would use to communicate to an assistant … “Find 30 mins to meet with Adam this week about Product Hunt” - ☝️FYI Events – Just because you need to know about what's going on, doesn't mean that you need to be involved. Use FYI to visually minimize events and declutter your timeline. - 👯‍♀️ Calendar Sync – Synced events help you ensure your availability is properly reflected on all relevant calendars by creating private, mirrored placeholder events across multiple calendars. - 🧘 Buffer Time – Buffer time creates placeholder events before and after an event to help you prepare, debrief or take a breather from too many back-to-back meetings. - 👀 Menu Bar – Gain instant access to your upcoming meetings. Designed for efficiency, it offers quick shortcuts to join your next meeting, keeping you on track and always in the know. - 🧰 Widgets – With Mayday widgets for iOS, iPad, and Mac, it’s like having our popular Menu Bar feature on all of your devices – see what’s coming up and join meetings from wherever you are. - 🪟 Time Windows – Define what your ideal week looks like by setting your default availability for different types of events. Depending on what you’re trying to schedule, Mayday will always try to prioritize your unique availability. We are so excited to get your feedback on this – let us know what you think in the comments! Many thanks for visiting today – Jeremy & The Mayday Team
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
Very cool! Does it look at my teammates calendars to know when they're available and suggest a time? Or does it just suggest a time that works for me and I'd need to confirm availability with my teammate?
Adam Day
Maker
@britt_joiner Mayday suggests ideal times based on everyone's availability. When you schedule with your teammates, Mayday can layer their Google Calendar availability into those suggestions to suggest a time when everyone is at least free. But when your teammates happen to be other Mayday users, the ideal time suggestions become much more intelligent since the software can make predictions not only using the raw free/busy status, but also understanding your teammates preferences and patterns for scheduling different types of events.
Shubham Pratap Singh
Congratulations on the launch🎉!! !
Adam Day
Maker
@shubham_pratap Thanks for the support!
Sunny Kumar
Great product team! Congrats on the launch! 👍 @jeremybell @adayyy
Adam Day
Maker
@jeremybell @sunny_sogra Thank you for the kind words!
Bjarn Bronsveld
The design of this app is on point, I really love it!
Adam Day
Maker
This one means a lot, thanks @bjarnbronsveld
Rose Brown
Mayday's new AI-assisted calendar sounds pretty awesome. I'm glad to hear that it's optimized for Apple devices and that it respects user privacy. The Smart Tags and AI-based scheduling at Ideal Times seem like game changers. Looking forward to trying it out!
Adam Day
Maker
@roseebrownnn Thanks for the feedback! Optimizing for Apple devices was done on our end by building the entire front end with SwiftUI. This definitely had it's challenges while SwiftUI was still in it's infancy but things there have significantly improved with recent updates and we're starting to really see this choice pay off!
Kirill Sokol
I'm impressed by this product and can't wait to give it a try! What I find particularly appealing is the feature that allows me to communicate my priorities to the AI, and the AI will assist me in managing my schedule, much like a personal assistant. Good luck with launch!
Adam Day
Maker
@malkielfalcone Thanks for the support! We're just getting started with what Mayday's AI can do but we're moving in the exact direction you mention - great insight. There's no reason for your calendar to just keep a record of what you spend time on, we're going to make it so your calendar IS your assistant.
David Crow
Mayday is pretty awesome. It has been a part of my daily workflow for a while. It started as a replacement for Sunrise, and it has evolved to something way more useful. Calendar Shield is surprisingly subtle and helpful -- it makes sure that my calendar is never jammed to the point of disaster. It just keeps my 4 work calendars, family and personal calendars working together for me. Being able to "sync" an event across all of the calendars has been a life saver. Thanks @jeremybell and the Mayday team, you make my life better.
Adam Day
Maker
Thanks for the shoutout @davidcrow - Calendar Shield and Synced events are definitely some of our most widely used features. Both of these are key to ensuring your time is protected for the things that matter to you. And by applying Synced event defaults with Smart Tags, Mayday can automatically ensure the availability that your calendars reflect is always up to date - without you having to think about it and while keeping the event details themselves private from those that only have access to some of your calendars.
Tyler Swartz
💡 Bright idea
This looks like a great product. Excited to test it out! The part that really resonates with me is the ability to tell the AI my priorities (eg. find more time to do deep work) and the AI will help me keep my calendar on track, sort of like a personal assistant.
Adam Day
Maker
@tylerswartz Thank you! The framing around how AI will enable the calendar to in a sense become like a personal assistant is exactly in line with where we want to take the product with our next few releases (another PH launch in our future perhaps??). Our goal is to move beyond your calendar just serving as a dumb ledger of all the things you and others plan with your time. Today we can do that with intelligent suggestions on ideal times and with natural language processing on events that you're trying to create, but there's a lot of exciting stuff on our roadmap that we can't wait to share more on soon!
Isha Varma
Congratulations on the launch!!! What are some unique features of Mayday that make it stand out?
Adam Day
Maker
@isha_varma07 Thanks and great question re what makes us unique. Sometimes it feels like there's a new calendar company launching each week. I guess there's clearly a problem out here people need solving. :) The main thing that makes Mayday unique is our ability to understand you and your priorities. We do this in a few ways. First, by bringing all of your different calendars into one unified timeline we can better understand your true availability for scheduling and rescheduling new things going forward. In addition, when you create your account, you can define your unique preferences for when you prefer to do different types of things (i.e. collaboration, solo work, times when you're indifferent, times when you're strictly unavailable). From there, our AI system learns more about you preferences as you schedule/reschedule events in your calendars. We use all of this to make better predictions on ideal times whenever you go to schedule, or whenever you offer your availability to others in a scheduling link. But predicting ideal times is just the beginning. We also offer a whole set of automations with our Smart Tags. Because we believe that your calendar should be more like an intelligent assistant, and less like a dumb list of things you did. Say for example you want to ensure events that are booked in your personal calendar block out time as unavailable in your work calendar? You can create a Smart Tag default that any time a new #personal event is scheduled, Mayday should add a mirrored but private placeholder event in your #work calendar to keep that time protected. And syncing events is just one example of the types of automations that Smart Tags unlock. We can also automatically add buffer time before/after certain types of events, or minimize certain events that you just want to be aware of into a streamlined FYI state, and much more. Last thing - Mayday is the only calendar in this space that's fully native and built using SwiftUI. This means that our iOS, iPad, and Mac apps offer feature parity across platforms. We're not just building companion apps that need a full web app version to support them. Mayday is built to run on all your devices wherever you need them.
Ozan Yalçın
Congrats on the launch!
Kyra Aylsworth
Maker
@ozan_yalcin1 Thank you Ozan!
Trevin Chow
I’ve been using Mayday’s beta for quite some time and love this damn app. Congrats to the entire Mayday team for the launch!
Adam Day
Maker
@trevin You've been an incredible beta tester and you've already left such a big impact on lots of things that we've built. Grateful to have your support!
Kyra Aylsworth
Maker
Thank you @trevin – love your fresh perspective on what we build (and what we plan to build)!
Giles Crouch
I've been lucky enough to be in the beta and absolutely love this calendar app. There are a lot out there today, but there's something about MayDay that seems to just work better. Tags are great for organising and I use the shield function a lot, especially for writing times.
Adam Day
Maker
@giles_crouch Thank you Giles! Your support and feedback as we've been building Mayday have been hugely valuable. We're grateful to have a beta tester like you! Can't wait to share more and get your feedback on what's coming next.
Kwaku Amprako
Awesome product with awesome branding. Congrats on the launch
Adam Day
Maker
@kwaku_amprako appreciate the support - thanks!
Luke Vigeant
Very slick.
Jeremy Bell
Maker
@vigey Thanks Luke!
Adi Patel
Great work team, looks super slick. Windows support on the roadmap?
Adam Day
Maker
@adi_patel Thanks! And yes absolutely - Windows support, as well as Android support are both on the roadmap. We'll be focusing our next few releases on bringing additional calendar integrations (Outlook coming in the next few weeks, iCal shortly after that). From there we'll be exploring additional device support outside the Apple ecosystem.
Michael The Geek 
Looks very nice.
Adam Day
Maker
@michaelthegeek Thanks! If you're going spend most of your day in a single piece of software, it might as well be beautiful!
tarodi carmad
Good project
Adam Day
Maker
@tarodi_carmad We appreciate that - thanks!
Tom Tompkins
I've been using Mayday for a little over a year and a half and it's been great. A few bugs and glitches in the early days, but that's to be expected. What I've appreciated most is how quickly the Mayday team fixes bugs and iterates on the product. I love the scheduling tool and the ability to add teammates availability to the scheduling link as well. Trying to juggle the calendars of multiple people in order to find times for client meetings has been a headache, but Mayday really helped address that. I also love the menu bar quick access to join meetings! Looking forward to seeing what new features they roll out next. Congrats on the Public Beta @jeremybell and team!
Adam Day
Maker
@jeremybell @tom_tompkins Thank you Tom! Really appreciate your support as a beta tester (and all your patience in the early days while we worked out the kinks 🙂). We're thrilled to hear how the product has been helpful for you and can't wait to share more on what's to come!
Zaaheda Islam
Congratulations on the launch! I am very interested to try out Mayday on my device. I mostly use Outlook but would love to try out the features. I am especially excited about it’s ability to learn my scheduling patterns and make suggestions as it helps me know more about my priorities from my habits. This is creative use of AI.
Adam Day
Maker
@zaaheda_islam Glad to hear it! Even though we only support Google Calendar today, we're in the middle of testing and validating Outlook support internally and have plans to roll it out to beta testers very shortly. So stay tuned for that!