Rise
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The calendar that works for you
Emiel Janson
Rise — The calendar that works for you
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Rise helps you schedule, optimize and protect your day to give you more time for what’s important. It’s a beautiful calendar that uses hundreds of signals to find the best times to meet, resolve conflicts and blocks off focus time. You are in charge.
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Emiel Janson
Hello Product Hunt! We’re excited to finally be able to share Rise with all of you today. Rise is a smart calendar that helps you schedule and automatically optimizes your day. We’ve been working on this for the past 2,5 years, and we hope you want to take it for a spin for a fresh approach to tackling your busy schedule. And the numbers don’t lie that we need help when it comes to how we spend our time: we’re overwhelmed, distracted and we have a hard time making time for things that really matter. One billion knowledge workers (that probably includes you!) are able to spend just 39% per week on their *real work*. No wonder we all feel like we’re in survival mode. We believe that remarkable works happens when you are able to bring the best version of yourself. And the way we divide our time matters a lot. It can be the difference between always running behind or having the piece of mind to do amazing stuff. So if you ever felt overloaded, or felt you’d love to get even more out of your week, Rise is for you. Our focus and unique approach is a combination of a smart scheduling engine and a beautifully rich calendar app. We believe this is the path to make a powerful tool accessible to everyone, and not just people like you – the savvy product experts. We actually have seen this team impact happening. Here's Johan, Co-founder at Brainstud, who has been using Rise with his entire crew: "With Rise our schedules just flow better, I no longer have to think about double bookings and finding time with both the team and external customers has become super simple. And the team is having more focus time in their calendars, without having to think about it at all!” Key features: - Automatic conflict resolving: flexible events automatically move around to make sure everyone can make it - FocusGuard: block off time automatically as your schedule fills up to protect your focus time - Multiple accounts: connect as many Google accounts as you’re managing to have a unified overview of your schedule - Meet & Reschedule: effortlessly schedule and move meetings without manually looking for a time that works - External scheduling links with preferred slots: share scheduling links that nudge people to pick slots that work best for you - Cross-calendar blocking: automatically synchronize events between calendars to eliminate double bookings forever - Menu bar app & auto-join: the Rise menu bar app shows what’s next, allows you to join meetings with one click. Enable auto-join to make sure you’re always on time for the next virtual session. - Teamlist: see what your teammates are up to - Timezones: stop calculating times manually by opening up unlimited extra timezones. Rise also automatically shows the timezone of your colleagues. - Deep Google Workspace integration: sync (optionally) your contacts, groups and meeting rooms so you can use and manage them from Rise But don’t take our word for it. Here’s what some of our friends say about Rise: "Flexible meetings, upcoming meetings in the menu bar, the focus guard feature paired with a powerful command bar - Rise helps me maintain the right balance between doing, managing and leading while making planning easier than before.” – Amon Menzel, Join.com "Rise has been a game-changer for our team. The flexible meeting feature has not only increased our productivity but also reduced conflicts and stress. It's like having a personal assistant for your calendar!” – Yoeri Severy, Yappa “Rise is awesome. Can’t live without it anymore.” – Adriaan Mol, Mollie “Rise has made managing my day effortless. We have used it across our team and had definitely helped finding the best time to meet and ensure we are not wasting time during some of our busiest hours.” – Neel Thakrak, Tuck “Cross-calendar blocking in Rise is awesome. It seamlessly integrates my personal and work calendars, ensuring I never double-book or miss important events.” – Tuomas Artman, Linear We want you and your team to go from overwhelmed to electrified, every single day. We have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and we cannot wait to hear your feedback.
Marciano
A calendar app that's actually nice to use and doesn't get on your nerves <3
Martijn de Kuijper
Congrats on the launch y'all! Amazing product.
Kunal Bhatia
Got set up within 10 mins and already booked 2 meetings with the scheduling feature 15 mins later. High quality already. Can't wait to see where you and the Rise team take the product, @emieljanson!
Emiel Janson
@kunalslab this is great. Ty. Whenever you have feedback don't hesitate to reach out.
Niklaus Gerber
It is an amazing product but when is the outlook integration coming?
Willem Spruijt
@niklausgerber Outlook and iCloud are definitely on our radar, but for now we focused on getting the scheduling features in a really solid state first.
Jelle Prins
❤️‍🔥
Mark Schiefelbein
Cool to see that Rise is out there now! Would you say it works best for teams where everybody is using Rise?
Willem Spruijt
@mschiefelbein Rise definitely works best with a whole team, but it's not mandatory and we have tons of features that work perfectly for individuals. For example, we are considering the calendars of your team members when scheduling, and you're able to see what your colleagues are up to. But, when you use Rise with your whole team and use our flexible feature, we are able to move meetings from multiple organizers which leads to more conflicts resolved an focus time gain.
Mark Schiefelbein
@willem_spruijt Makes sense. It really seems perfect for a team that works closely together, has a bunch of recurring meetings with various attendees, team members with different roles and needs in terms of focus time or important external meetings.
Veronica Rae Saron
I've used Rise before! Congrats on the new update!!
Francesco D'Alessio
We tested Rise and scored it an 8.0 on Tool Finder: https://toolfinder.co/tools/rise... Before our main review lands, here's our deep dive into Rise to see if it is right for you:
Good work from the team @emieljanson, @rickpastoor etc. ✅
Rick Pastoor
@emieljanson @francescod_ales thank you so much Francesco for taking the time for this extensive deep dive!
Raphael Fleckenstein
I‘m using Rise since half a year and it really helped me focus. I love their feature most that creates blockers in my calendar automatically when I‘m getting too many calls. Looking forward to switch soon from cal.com to their scheduling page that‘s built to help me focus better
Rick Pastoor
@raphael_167 Thanks Raphael!
Hugo Doria
Is there any plans for an iOS/iPadOS counterpart?
Willem Spruijt
@hdoria iOS on our radar 📡 iPad is supported through the web version.
Tarek Elsamni
The main intent of this product is to facilitate efficient planning. To suggest feasible schedules, the app needs to encompass all my appointments, meetings, and calendar events. Its current restriction of only integrating with Google (gsuite), and not with O365 or other providers, means it's not offering accurate planning recommendations due to the absence of details from my other calendars. I'm keenly awaiting O365/Outlook integration for it to function effectively.
Philipp Ronnenberg
Looks awesome! How does this differ from Microsoft's offer? Apart from yours looking much better :D
Jorn Rigter
This is amazing and much needed in times of so much easy distraction and calendar booking links. Love the FocusGuard feature! Thanks, & congrats on the launch 👏
Ethan Keshishian
Early Rise user here. I’ve probably tried 50+ different calendar applications, and Rise is one of the best I’ve used. Great job team, and congrats on the launch!
Willem Spruijt
@ethankeshishian thanks Ethan, appreciate it and thanks for using Rise. Lot’s of great stuff to come as well 🔥
HUSSAIN AHMED
Congrats on the launch😍
Red Cat
I've been using Rise for the past 12 months... it's such a joy to use in all ways - UX, working within a team, focus blocking... stunning calendar, huge fan!! Keep up the great work team Rise!
Willem Spruijt
@red_cat Amazing, thank you Red 🫶
Many teams are tackling the calendar market. It's a tough niche. Good luck to you!
Rehansh
Congratulations on the launch Emiel! I think this is more or less like Google calendar but you have added a lot of additional features which are not available in Google calendar currently and this can be your unique selling proposition you can use to target C-suite executives and salespeople!
Willem Spruijt
@persuasionkid yup correct! And we’re just getting started :-)
redocecin
Great, this is an alternative to calendar app for team work!