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Meekan for Slack - Your Slack team's scheduling robot assistant

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Paolo Perazzo
Looks great! Couple of questions. How do you build each Availability ID? What's your business model? Will you charge for it (couldn't find any info)? Thanks and congrats on the PH launch!
Matty Mariansky
@sivola Thanks! Explicitly, we're combining your free/busy info from all the calendars you connect (A lot of our users connect their home as well as work schedules), and the preferences you set. Behind the scenes, a machine learning component, and a lot of manual weight tweaking keeps improving the time suggestions the engine gives (They are always ranked from the best one downwards). This works both on the personal level, and on the group level. Current products will remain free, as our scheduling engine evolves, there will be another tier of paid products.
Matej Marjanovic
This makes scheduling great, but we still have to use other software for actual meetings. I hope Slack soon adds voice and screen sharing support that their acquisition of Screenhero in January should make possible. (http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/28...)
Eyal Yavor
@matejmarjanovic We're integrated with room.co, so that whenever you ask our bot for a video conference\call, it will automatically add a Room-URL as the meeting's location. Might save you a step or two :)
Jason Shah
@matejmarjanovic Indeed! We just connected Do.com to Slack as well to help meetings run productively once they're scheduled ;) http://blog.do.com/post/12291191...
Gisele Góes
We've been playing around with it this past week and it works great! It'd be great to get some kind of notification minutes before the meeting starts maybe? And definitely add Mekan to DM conversations :} but the team is loving it so far <3
Eyal Yavor
@gihgoes You can talk to our bot in a DM, and discreetly add events to your calendars. However, Slack's limitations prevent us from adding it to a DM between two humans :) Thanks for the feedback!
Nikita Bakirov
Great job @mmariansky and @eyalyavor! We were thinking to make something similar for Skype. will be really useful for teams!
Matty Mariansky
@nikitabakirov Thanks! What happened with your Skype idea?