Sunsama Calendar - The calendar for teams

It's fixed!

@stinhambo For now, we only allow adding calendars that have been shared with account you linked to Sunsama. Better support for multiple accounts is something that's a priority for us. If you could, what kind of accounts would you want to add to your primary account? Do you have your events spread out across a number of different Google accounts?

@travisawakens Yes I have four Google accounts, Facebook and Tripit (as well as my favourite soccer team's schedule!).

@stinhambo Yowza, that's a lot to manage! Do you have a primary company/team you work for, or do all the different accounts come from doing a variety of work in different places? We've mostly been focused thus far on folks who have just one core team, so it's helpful to get a sense for how folks like you have to connect all the different dots!

@travisawakens I have a team of one (me) that manages my primary account, a shared family account, personal account and one which is kind of redundant so let's make it 3 :) Tripit has two connections really, personal (family holidays) and business. Facebook is for social events like mountain bike meetings and birthday parties! I like how I can toggle them to focus on work or personal or just have them all live so I don't double book.

@stinhambo Thanks for the clarification! I can see how being able to navigate all of those in one place would be a must have (otherwise you'd spend all day jumping from one to the other!). Strange that we can only operate in one time space and yet have accepted having such fragmented calendar spaces...

@kinetic K! Haven't heard from you in a decade. Check it out let me know what you think :) If you're looking for more personal stuff (fb events, etc) there's some cool stuff like Fantastical and Kin. Sunsama is pretty focused on the calendar in the work environment.

@thepriyadarshy Hmm I was looking for something more personal, but I'm still gonna check this out! It looks pretty clean! :)

@kinetic just making sure to set expectations :)

@stinhambo great questions steven! We started building Sunsama as you know it now in January, it wasn't until April that we had an alpha/private-beta ready. The product was super buggy early users had to deal with duplicated events, broken event synchronization and there wasn't even a week view, just a list of events! (Among many other bugs) There's a longer story about a product we build before Sunsama, which was calendar related, that saved us a good bit of building time. Ping me personally for that. The challenges have been many, the biggest one we faced early on was an unwillingness to adopt a whole new tool for something that people felt should just be part of their calendar. It's why we've moved towards being a calendar instead of just a meeting app, like well known tools like Do, Worklife, MeetingBird, Solid, etc. We started with a really small pool of early adopters. We went out and met people whose job it was to run good meetings and we put the product in their hands. This was usually PMs. This was a very time consuming process but the most rewarding. We got to build personal relationships with our early users, learn about their meetings, calendars and teams and even sit in on their actual meetings. I think you read our case study with TINT, we did several on-sites to get a deeper understanding of how our early users actually ran their meetings so that we could build Sunsama to match current behaviors. It's crazy what you learn when you see the behavior being executed by customers instead of them telling you what the behavior is like. There's actually quite a big discrepancy. The last thing I'll touch on with our early adopter strategy was the Slack channel we created. We created a small, tight-knit community of our early adopters. This was and still is the place for them to share feedback, bugs, and make feature requests. Chat is a much better mechanism than e-mail for conversations with early users especially when you throw in a face to face meetings every couple weeks. I think this was mutually beneficial for both us and them. We had users tell us things like "I love how you guys allow users so much input. I am so invested in this product that I almost feel like it’s mine. Thank you." and we got to learn from them in so many ways. We had a place where we could do everything from share random ideas, show them early designs on sketch/invision, and get their feedback about the live version of Sunsama. I hope that helps answer some of your questions @stinhambo. Sorry for the long response!

@thepriyadarshy Longer responses are the best as they tell a better story :)

@stinhambo of course! please send me a message at ashutosh@sunsama.com if you want to dive deeper or share your story and what you've been working on!

@stinhambo hey steven, we recently opened up our community and I wanted to give you a chance to join: https://sunsama.com/community (if you're logged in already just use the settings dropdown in the top left to select community)

@steven_michael Don''t Do and Worklife already offer that?

@stinhambo @steven_michael they sure "Do". The biggest difference is that Sunsama is geared around fitting into your "worklife" by also being your calendar. Less apps. More better.

@thepriyadarshy *clap* @steven_michael

@spencernorman Glad to have you & your crew onboard! We're looking into the best way to handle calendars of shared team interest (like an OOO calendar). The best answer I can give you right now is: support for what you're looking for should be coming soon. Something you can do that's similar is to create a 'project' that you (and your teammates) assign meetings to. This doesn't require scheduling events to special 'team calendars'- you can just schedule your events normally and tag them to whatever project you wish. Unfortunately, this might not be the best fit for your OOO calendar, since in Sunsama you can't view all the events in both your individual calendar and a project at the same time. [edit for clarity]

@afkehaya Thanks Alexander! We don't offer a referral program just yet. We're focusing on making sure the teams that sign up love it amongst themselves before trying to get them recruiting other folks

@travisawakens Ok thanks that makes sense.. The reason I ask is because I'm building an API and Plugin to make it super easy for you to add in-app referral features to web and mobile apps. I'm opening up a BETA at the end of this week. When you guys are ready it'd be great to have your feedback. You can check out my landing page here to learn more www.actionwins.co. If you're interested I can also send you a demo video of how it works. Congrats on the Product Hunt launch! I'm signing up for your free tier to try it out:)