SavvyCal

The thoughtful way to find a time to meet ♥️

4.6•8 reviews•

603 followers

The thoughtful way to find a time to meet ♥️

4.6•8 reviews•

603 followers

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Most scheduling tools put the burden on the recipient. SavvyCal makes it easy for both parties to find the best time to meet—in an instant. You’ll love it for the advanced features to keep you in control of your calendar. They’ll love it for the personalized scheduling experience.

This is the 7th launch from SavvyCal. View more

SavvyCal Time Zone API

Never have to debug time zone insanity again

Fetch everything you need to incorporate time zone elements in your app, such as human-friendly names, UTC offsets, and exemplar cities with a free and reliable API.

Free

Launch tags:

API•Developer Tools

Launch Team

Derrick Reimer

SavvyCal

Maker

Hey PH 👋 One of my all-time favorite essays on selling your by-products was penned by @jasonfried: “The software and web industry can learn a lot from the lumber industry, the oil business, and corn and soybean farmers. Lumber was originally cut for boards for building. Oil was originally drilled for fuel. Corn and soybeans were originally farmed for food. But today these industries have figured out how to use the waste to make even more products.” When we took a look around our codebase, we realized we were sitting on some pretty useful sawdust! This project came to life when we set out to build a time zone selector for SavvyCal that humans could actually use (a pretty important thing for a scheduling app!) It turns out, deduplicating and sourcing reasonable names for the 595 worldwide time zones is a lot trickier than it might seem! We’ve spent hundreds of hours aggregating, normalizing, and organizing all the ridiculous time zone nuances. For example: Nepal runs on GMT+5¾, Hawaii and Arizona ignore Daylight Savings Time, and UTC+12 and UTC–12 are the same time zone… with a different date. Use the SavvyCal Time Zone API to fetch everything you need to incorporate time zone elements in your app, such as human-friendly names, abbreviations, UTC offsets, and exemplar cities. Query the API right from your JavaScript front-end (using a public API token), or from your backend — wherever you need to use the data! Check out the documentation and let me know what you think.

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2yr ago

Savian Boroanca

@jasonfried @derrickreimer, congrats to the team. Powerful update! 🚀

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2yr ago

Amalia Ghenescu

Sessions

@jasonfried @derrickreimer @savian_boroanca, I love SavvyCal! ❤️

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2yr ago

Jane Portman

Userlist

@derrickreimer Yay, this is awesome. Congrats on the launch!

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2yr ago

Derrick Reimer

SavvyCal

Maker

@uibreakfast Thanks Jane!

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2yr ago

Derrick Reimer

SavvyCal

Maker

@savian_boroanca @amalia_ghenescu ♥️

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2yr ago

Leo Selie

Zapier

I love this! Would it be possible to include a search query (GET) to find an IANA ID based on the name, for instance?

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2yr ago

Derrick Reimer

SavvyCal

Maker

@leo_at_zapier Interesting idea! Meaning search query like "Central Time" which could return "America/Chicago"? Fuzzy matched?

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2yr ago

Leo Selie

Zapier

@derrickreimer a fuzzy search would be amazing, but having worked a bit with APIs, I'd rather see an exact match as fuzzy searches sometimes return unexpected results. A combination of both would be great: search for exact match, if no hit, check fuzzy search and return a 200 or 404 depending on the result would make this, in my opinion, the best timezone API available 😁 I would also expect other search queries like country, or maybe an array of hits when providing an UTC offset. All in all, these are just feature requests and I think it's awesome what you've created already, just throwing some ideas around, thanks!

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2yr ago

Jack Bingham

Time Zone Pro

Wow, this could be super useful for us when we’re working on Time Zone Pro (https://www.producthunt.com/prod...) improvements. We’re looking at ways to book calendar events through our app too. I’d love to chat about how best to use this and SavvyCal links to book calls. Upvoted!

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2yr ago