Need to schedule a meeting or phone call, but can’t agree on a time that is good for everyone? Try using When Is Good, a dead-simple Web app that does just one thing: zero in on a meeting time that is good for everyone without sending 20 emails back and forth. There are plenty of other apps that help you find a mutually convenient time time for meetings or events (such as Presdo, Scheduly, or Jiffle). But When Is Good strips the process down to its bare essentials.
No login is required. You simply highlight the times that are good for you and create an event. You are given a code and a link. You send the link out to your invitees and they are shown the available times, and they select the ones that are good for them. Easy.
The UK-based service is working on Outlook and Google Calendar integration, as well as premium features. For instance, you can pay 180 Pounds a year to have a branded version of the app hosted on your company’s own subdomain.
This seems to be a cool app. It can be a big success if they integrate well with Outlook.
pretty cool. Probably also good to find the best time for a meeting between a group of people that don’t share a calendar.
This is cool. It would be great if they widgetize it!
Seems cool but I just don’t think I would use it.. it’s missing something,.. to make it that killer app that I have to have.
Simple is cool!
@ray yes facebook widget
i have no clue why anyone would pay the $180 lbs. when someone could build this easily (not bragging.. honest)
kudos for simplicity
Decent, but you should check out doodle.ch. Even easier and more flexible. I love it.
lbs? lol
But I would pay for this! I would of course pass on the expense to my clients… but more importantly i don’t have the expertise to build one myself, and paying $65/hr for my developer to make it will result in the same minus the on going support and upgrades.
If they can enhance the UI, i’m sold!
You should try http://www.timebridge.com –it does the same thing (and a lot more) but in an even easier way, and already integrates with both Outlook and Google Calendar. I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned here. Oh yeah–it’s free.
I’m not sure whey you’re so excited about When is Good. The interface is jarring. A much better tool is meetomatic.com, although it only offers planning by day rather than hour.
My bad, meetomatic now has a private beta with 15-minute time slots.
I’m biased here, but if you have a pain scheduling meetings and want a solution, please come check out Tungle (http://tungle.com)
I think you guys don’t get it. The awesomeness of this is the fact that you don’t have to register. I hate registering for sites just to try it out (yeah I didn’t sign up for Facebook for a long time because of that… LOL).
Its like the Photobucket model. Super duper easy.
The simplicity is absolutely fantastic… I really really hate using outlook at work and having to send a million meeting request … especially when you are the organizer and you don’t have shared calendars… innovation + simplicity = fantastics…. http://www.read...ex.php?RTA=web2
The original site to do this– the one that these entrepreneurs have copied wholeheartedly– is whentomeet.com.
Is it really that hard to be original?
I tried a couple of schedulers and Scheduly is my favorite!
cool app can’t wait to try it out
Beauty is simplicity.
Pretty slick and easy to use. Love the no-register hassle-free approach. Outlook integration would be a big plus and the developers have rightly targeted Google Calendar as well. Used it extensively today and got three friends, who like it and thanked me for sharing it.
Thank you TechCrunch for sharing it with us!
FK
Seems nice and simple – and myabe the name will be enough to get people to remember – these services need to work with non geeks.
good luck to them
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Timezones are not correct…well at least my timezone (-5). Site says it’s an hour earlier.
Did not work with my blackberry. I could not pick a time.
There’s also http://whenshouldwe.com/. Same deal. From the UK as well.
Not a big fan of the Jiffle subscription plans. When you pay $99 or $149 a year, you STILL have to accept advertising. I think advertising is OK for free services, but not paid. I wouldn’t use it because of that.
In Europe http://www.Doodle.ch is offering something similar since at least 2006. Still wonder if advertising will work on these services. We all like the no-register approach, but addon features for money will work without a registration.
Yeah it doesn’t fully support time zones… try ScheduleOnce for that
Others do it better – I already use SMEScheduler.com – has outlook, Ical, and Google Calendar Integration as well as integrating with Google maps and Twitter for real time meeting acceptance alerts.
yep, I love http://whenshouldwe.com too
Hey, thanks to Mark Evans for correctly noting that Meetomatic.com is simpler and faster (for coarse-gained scheduling it is the simplest and fastest), and now has 15-minute granularity for private-label users.
There are many great rivals out there… no doubt about it (e.g. Volker Wohlert is correct, too!) But hey, we’ve been running Meetomatic since 1998! How about a ’shoot-out’ by TechCrunch comparing speed and simplicity in different niches (coarse-grained scheduling, fine-grained, etc). Heck, we even advertise our rivals because we know we’re the simplest and fastest in at least one niche!
http://whenshouldwe.com all the way. No sign up. Create from the first page. By far the easiest to engage with. =
http://GatherGrid.com is much simpler than When is Good, Meet-o-Matic, and Doodle. I found it on CenterNetworks, which called it “the best interface I’ve seen to-date”.
Free, no registration. Also, no having to select every time with drop-down lists (doodle) or click a million checkboxes (meetomatic) or type in every option (whenshouldwe), and no having to “write down” meeting codes (WhenIsGood) or remember anything.
It’s displayed in calendar format, results are displayed in the same, easy calendar format. And they donate 10% of revenue to a charity the event coordinator chooses.
http://gathergrid.com