tomosterlund

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Building an open source event calendar for the web: https://github.com/schedule-x/schedule-x
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Comment · 1 year ago
A bit early to migrate a UI library to Temporal?... Not really!
Comment · 1 year ago
1) SEO texts. Try phrasing like "alternative to {competitor}" for free-riding off your competitors back.

2) Get backlinks. Make sure other websites have links to yours. This will increase your ranking in search machines.

3) Do social media

Comment · 1 year ago
surprises me a bit about increasing speed.

I would have thought that people who constantly rush it when walking suffer more from stress.

But then maybe the study was more focused on people who did walking as a sort of sport activity than a way of just getting outside?

Comment · 2 years ago
Very cool app! Are you considering adding a self-hosting alternative?

Idea: you could for example do something like a €199 one time fee for people who'd like to self-host.

I think this is something a fair bit of small SaaS founders need, but tbh I don't think this is one of the most crucial things to have a subscription for.

Comment · 2 years ago
Amazing! This is so helpful for anyone building open source, wanting to avoid committing with the work email by mistake.

Thanks

Comment · 2 years ago
I think this is a beautifully written article. There might be a lot of gems to learn from here. One thing makes me a bit sceptic though:

"Clear your schedule, and read this book"

I haven't been around many years in the private sector, and haven't sold much. But I sometimes have a feeling, many project-strategies are kind of over-engineered and so meticulously thought through, that no actual work happens. This seems like an anti-pattern for achieving things to me.

"Third, talk to a lot of people" however really resonates with me, because if there is one thing I see all the time with successful new products in my field, is that they have built very strong communication channels with users and people interested in the product.

Comment · 2 years ago
Amazingly pretty! I'm not international enough to have a personal use case for this, but I admire the skill that went into this. Are you open sourcing this at some point?
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you so much! It sure did, and still does teach me a lot
Comment · 2 years ago
You're right, the demo does not show it yet. Perhaps I should change that. However, in the demo you could drag one event onto another, and then you'll see how it looks when it's overlapping with another one.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you so much for these kind words :)
Comment · 2 years ago
This is gold for me. Thank you so much for taking the time!

Will be sure to actually do a word-by-word reading of the spec before taking on recurrence x)

Comment · 2 years ago
Correct! In the week- and day views there is still no gap, only in the month view. The discussions here today though convinced me I should also allow for a gap in the week/day views (not sure yet if per default or configuration).
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks!

Do you mean if any existing calendar can be used a backend? In that case, not out of the box. But I do intend to build a plugin for using Google Calendar as a backend.

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