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Ben Hamey

Timepage by Moleskine Studio - A smart calendar with weather forecasts, maps and contacts

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Who doesn't need a smart calendar app in their life? Moleskine Timepage is your daily productivity booster. It combines your important tasks, calendar, events, maps, contacts, and weather into a beautiful, smooth application that help you manage your schedule.

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Ben Hamey
Maker
Hey Product Hunters! We’re pumped to announce our collaboration with Moleskine that has been in the works for quite a while. It’s a calendar and weather app called Timepage, available today for iPhone and Apple Watch. It’s only just been released onto the App Store a few minutes ago so it won’t appear in search yet (direct link should work) - we just wanted to give PHers some early notice! Does the world need another calendar app? We think it does :-) Some time ago, we were wondering why most calendar apps kind of felt the same. We realised one of the reasons is because they usually take the calendar data directly from iOS instead of syncing natively. Timepage syncs with Google/iCloud/Exchange directly which allows us to control the UX more, especially with features like adding events. We did a lot of research into how people use calendar apps and found a few weird common behaviours, like when people organise a meeting they’d open the iOS Notes app and write the info like “meeting with dave 3pm tuesday” instead of opening their calendar because it just took too long. We use natural language processing for adding events and while we certainly aren’t the first to use that technique in a calendar, we’ve really tried hard to make it as frictionless as possible. We also found when people visualised their week ahead, they’d see each day as a discrete block of time, regardless of whether it was full of events or empty. This didn’t match how most calendars show a schedule, so we made our timeline view more akin to the natural way people think about time. People are understandably very particular about what they like in a calendar and Timepage probably isn’t for everyone (we don’t have a traditional little month grid, for example) but we hope people might find our approach refreshing. Here to answer any questions or comments! Ben
Ben Hamey
Maker
Also shout out to @joshmobleymusic for the incredible sound design (you’ll recognise his awesome work from Clear and many other great apps).
Vlad Arbatov
@hamey Hey Ben, Timepage looks gorgeous and it's a fresh experience indeed. I personally would like to have some integrations with other apps to fit into a custom productivity pipeline (for ex, I use Zapier to push tagged conversations from Intercom to Todoist for a reply reminder, then Sunrise grabs it via a native integration and puts it in my day schedule).
Ben Hamey
Maker
@vladzima Thanks so much Vlad, really appreciate the feedback! We've got a big list of integrations that we'd like to do, we wanted to try nail the core calendar experience first before rolling them in but they are very much a priority. That sounds like an interesting pipeline you've got setup, are there any other specific integrations that would help you simplify your workflow?
Vlad Arbatov
@hamey I sure understand that integrations are not your priority while building new type of experience, which is absolutely reasonable. Integration with Apple Mail would be nice but I suppose you already know this :)
Ben Hamey
Maker
@vladzima Totally, I'd use the hell out of that myself!
David Diamond
Hey Ben, you have such big competitors in this space, whats your marketing strategy to compete?
Micah Ghoulish
This looks fantastic. I'd expect nothing less from the Moleskine. One question, how did you settle on the pricepoint? I am always curious how app pricing is determined.
Ben Hamey
Maker
@micahkulish Hi Micah thanks for that :-) We absolutely laboured over how to price it. Pricing is always difficult but this was especially hard because to be honest, calendars are a relatively mature space so we knew that when people hit purchase, they are really evaluating our price as an addition to the cumulative price of every other calendar app they've bought. We also had the added complexity of knowing people may compare us to the price of physical Moleskine planners they've purchased. In the end we felt $5 was a very fair price. I could talk about pricing all day!
Fred
Mailbox changed the way I handle email and it's been my only client since launch now. Looking forward to trying this today as I haven't found any calendar app to change the way I manage my time.
Ben Hamey
Maker
@fredsoneya Thanks Fred - we’ve often used that example when creating Timepage actually! The opportunity definitely has parallels. Looking forward to seeing what you think! :-)
Michael Xander
Do you guys use Forecast.io for the weather info? I couldn’t find it on the website.
Ben Hamey
Maker
@michaxndr Hey Michael - yes we do, it's in the About info in the app. We'll have to get it added to the site.
Mark Donne
I love the look it's definitely refreshing. My only problem and it has nothing to do with your app is I really need a dedicated calendar app for Mac. Are you thinking of building one in the future?
Ben Hamey
Maker
@mark_donne Thanks for the kind words! A Mac app is not something we're actively making right now, but it's definitely on the horizon :-)
David Diamond
Hey Ben, you have such big competitors in this space, whats your marketing strategy to compete?
Ben Hamey
Maker
@david_diam A very valid question! There are gigantic players in this space and we know the challenges are huge. We have a very long term view of the market and without divulging too much detail, we have a second product phase planned which is very different to any other calendar before. First things first though, we want to give people a really delightful experience just managing the mundane tasks of every day activity.
Frank
Thanks for trying to keep this category of apps interesting with your approach. While this type of presentation isn't for me, just like you pointed out in your comments, I do see the need for different approaches to fulfilling a need. I hope this is successful for you!
Ben Hamey
Maker
@fbara Hey Frank, that's a really nice way of putting it - appreciate the sentiment! We do feel the category is stale and are hoping to mix it up. Thanks again :) Ben
Elizabeth M.
Awesome. It illustrates time as a continuum.
Vlado Grancaric
What I love about this App is the simplicity. The UI is nice and simple and not busy. Which is what you usually get with calendar apps.
Ben Hamey
Maker
@vladzz Thanks Vlado - it took an insane amount of iterations to get it that simple. Been designing it for almost 2 years.
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