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Meetingbird Meet — The easiest way to schedule a meeting with anyone
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@katmanalac Thanks Kat!
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Henry, a co-founder of Meetingbird.
Launching Meetingbird on Product Hunt this past summer was incredible, so we're excited to be back to share Meetingbird Meet!
Meet is a new, easier way to schedule meetings of any kind. We've all dealt with email chains to find a time that works, but newer scheduling tools that make you select time slots every time aren't much better. Meet makes scheduling a meeting with anyone (they don't need to have an account) as easy as sending them your personal Meet link (mine is meetingbird.com/meet/henry). Meet even supports group scheduling and preferences for blocked and preferred times.
More about our vision for Meet here:
http://blog.meetingbird.com/an-e...
Around all day for questions -- let us know what you think!
Henry
@evanthomaspaul Yes - we're looking to release support for Office 365 this summer. Thanks for your patience!
Does this integrate with iCloud Calendars and other calendar feeds? Or is it Google Calendar only?
@theleovogel Thanks for the question Leo. Right now Meetingbird only supports syncing with Google Calendar but we're working to release support for other calendars soon. As a temporary work around, some of our users sync a Google Calendar to iCal which works well.
@pdornier_ Sorry, that's not an acceptable workaround for me. I won't be trying or using this until you support iCal. Spending hours of time to upload my data for harvest by Google so I can try a service I'm not sure I need is not something I'll subject myself to. Please comment when you support iCal and I'll be happy to try your service then :)
@theleovogel Totally understand. Thanks for your feedback, you'll be the first to know when we release support for iCal.
I'm always looking for a decent meeting planner, hopefully this one fills the bill. I love the design and color scheme.
@gabriel__lewis Awesome! Keep us posted on your experience with Meet and let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
@hgottfried we don't use it either :( The meet functionality still works as long as you have your exchange calendar shared and part of Google Calendar :)
I was a part of the team back in the old/stupid days where a "web service" was something complicated to set up, impossible to authenticate, and unthinkable that it could connect to other services... So we piggybanked on "caldav" protocol and built a similar thing where users could publish their calendars, and others could see it to find time!
Now... This is much nicer, of course, and much more connected...
And it sounds like it would work perfectly for 1:1 meetings, where it's often easy to manually find a time that works for everyone.
However, the problem is that a) it likely doesn't scale beyond 3-4 people in a meeting (maybe that's not too common for your audience?) b) it doesn't solve the problem when the meeting times need to adjust, and c) it still requires a bunch of back and forth on email if the meeting time isn't really appropriate (for instance, I may have a meeting that is in a different location than the one you're proposing, so I need to be able to add travel time to it, etc.)
I may be shortsighted, but I am now 99% sure that the best (maybe only?) way to solve this is through digital assistants (Cortana, X.ai, etc.) where the assistant knows "my" schedule really well, (so yours knows yours), can apply simple intelligence (location, understanding priority, social cues (if you're my wife vs. my dentist)) to take 95% of the pain of scheduling away... That's where I'm most excited to see innovation... but perhaps I'm not getting it...
Good luck on the launch!
@cancom10 Hi Can, thanks for the feedback. Meet actually works great for scheduling group meetings, since it allows you to add multiple Meet links and see everyone's availability side by side on a calendar. Totally understand how features for meeting time adjustment would be useful - that's coming soon.
Appreciate your thoughts on the benefits of digital assistants. Those certainly work great for some meetings, but we think for the vast majority of cases, Meet's ability to instantly display when everyone's available is just more convenient. Digital assistants are unfortunately both slow and expensive, as they often still rely on emailing back and forth to find the best time. I might be biased though :), appreciate your feedback!
Looks great. The hyphen-username feature is a great idea.
@henry_dornier Weeks start on Mondays in (I think) many countries of the world - can you add that feature?
@felixkaiser @henry_dornier Hi Felix, thanks for your feedback. Glad you like the hyphen feature! Just added Monday week start to our to do list :).
I agree in that this is much more efficient and accurate than something like x.ai but I'm curious to hear your major differences between Calendly (a product I've been using for quite some time and satisfied with). Sorry if you've already answered that and I missed it!
@chrisbuttenham I'm also curious to know as well. I have recently gotten pretty synced up with Calendly and have been very satisfied thus far, so just curious to learn what services/features you have to differentiate. Your UI/UX looks fantastic.. I'm always open to switching :)
@tyler_denk @chrisbuttenham Hey Chris and Tyler -- great question, thanks for asking!
Here are the major differences:
1. There's no need to pick time slots whenever you want to schedule a meeting. Your availability in Meet is determined by your calendar(s), but you can also set Preferred and Blocked times.
2. Meet isn't just for 1 on 1s. It makes group scheduling easy too. For example, if you wanted to schedule a meeting with my co-founder and I, you'd just visit meetingbird.com/meet/paul-henry, and you'd see our collective availability.
3. Meet is built into a beautiful calendar with powerful features like notes and projects. There's no need to switch between your calendar and your scheduling tool.
4. Meet is totally free!
I hope that helps! We've had a number of Calendly users switch to Meet, so I'd be happy to answer any further questions you might have. Feel free to reach out at henry@meetingbird.com!
Nice UX! How can I make my link accessible only by the person I intend to meet, and only for the specific meeting we're interested in holding? Ie anyone with my meetingbird link could theoretically add a meeting request in my calendar (I just tested this with some random meetingbird usernames) - how can I prevent this?
@tommaso Thanks for the question, Tommasso. We'll be adding additional privacy settings like the ones you mentioned in the coming weeks. For now, anyone you send your Meet link to can request a meeting, although it's always up to you whether to accept or reject the request.
Like a Doodle with swag and attitude. Juste get the feeling that everybody want to be my meeting facilitator rightnow... But everything is or not complete or not free. Love to see Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack or Trello do it for me cause I already pay for them and everybody is already using it.
Are there mobile apps in development? I just signed up! I'll be downloading the Mac app shortly, but loving the UI of the site so far
@brucekraftjr Thanks Bruce! Yes - we have a mobile app on the way, but it won't be out until this summer as we're focused on perfecting the web experience right now. Thanks for your feedback, and let us know if there's anything else you'd like to see!
@rjalex At the moment we only support syncing with Google Calendar, but we're aiming to release support for Office365 and iCloud this summer.
Haha, I saw x.ai in the past week and was excited by how cool it was, and now we have MeetingBird, one is a bot who has a conversation with the meeter, the other gives power to the meeter -- which one to use now? 🤔
Absolutely loving this! Seamlessly integration with Google Calendar, add notes, projects, anonymous feedback about meetings. And the Meet part is great! Still missing some features of Google Calendar (to make me completely migrate to there) but looks great!
@thejoaosantos Thanks for the feedback João! Would love to know which features of Google Calendar you'd like to see -- we're always building new features for Meetingbird.
@henry_dornier as you get used to Google Calendar, you get used to some small UX of the platform. Some of them are really small but can be a hassle for people that are used to GCalendar:
1. Change events time by just drag and drop (move in time slots, or expand/reduce duration)
2. Quick edit on week view (GCalendar only allows you to change attendance) or event name
3. Big one: Add people to an event created on GCalendar. Seems to me that you need to go back to GCalendar to invite people to a specific event.
Another cool feature: Notify guests with Meeting Agenda and Add attachments (links to Google Docs files)
Hope it helped!
@thejoaosantos @henry_dornier Thanks for that feedback João. #1 and #2 are in the works, but #3 you can already do in Meetingbird by clicking on an event and then choosing "Add Participants" in the right sidebar.
On another note, we know some people love their Google Calendar, so we built a chrome extension that allows you to access Meetingbird notes straight from there! Check it out here: https://chrome.google.com/websto...
When you create an event from an email, it's a kind of magic : subject, message, all is set and the recipient of the email are automatically on the guest list !
Pros:biiiig time saver
once configured, it takes seconds to set a meeting
One click to create an event related to an email
Cons:english version only, some of my french clients are a bit lost
I can't let my client choose the duration for a meeting
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