Synara
The developer-first event & invite API that fixes ICS issues
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The developer-first event & invite API that fixes ICS issues
125 followers
Synara is a developer-first calendar invite and event-sync service that replaces messyics files with fast, reliable API-driven scheduling that's built for modern apps. ICS is 25+ years old and parsed differently across providers. Updates get ignored, duplicated, or partially applied. Synara uses ACE, a clean JSON event format, to normalise event data. A single API call handles invites, updates, sync, and ICS fallback, so your app gets predictable behaviour everywhere.
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EasyFrontend
Congratulations on the launch! Is there webhook support for tracking RSVPs & delivery status?
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@getsiful Thanks! Yes, Synara fires webhooks for RSVP changes.
You’ll get events whenever an attendee accepts or declines, across Google, Outlook and Apple, all normalised so you don’t have to handle each provider’s quirks.
We don’t expose delivery-status webhooks yet. Right now, the focus is on reliable creation + updates without the usual ICS inconsistencies, but it’s something I’ll be exploring depending on demand.
Out of curiosity, is your main need visibility into attendee behaviour or debugging provider delivery issues?
EasyFrontend
@dryrunlabs Thanks for the clarification. My main need is visibility into attendee behaviour, especially when people respond from different providers.
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@getsiful Makes total sense and you're not the only one looking for it! That was actually the biggest driver for building Synara in the first place.
With ICS alone, RSVP behaviour varies wildly depending on the provider. Google, Outlook and Apple all send different payloads (or none), and sometimes they don’t send anything at all. Synara normalises those responses so you get a clean, consistent webhook for every accept/decline/update regardless of where the attendee responds.
Out of interest, which providers do you see the biggest inconsistencies with in your projects?
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Big question for anyone who has tried building event or calendar features before: What’s the most unpredictable behaviour you ran into across Google, Microsoft or Apple?
Mine was Outlook silently ignoring updates with METHOD:UPDATE. Took days to figure out. Curious what others hit.
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Second will have to be the fact that Apple Calendar refuses to send RSVP emails when a user reacts to an invite.
Swytchcode
Signed up. Looking forward for to your live product
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@chilarai Amazing! Thanks for signing up! Out of curiosity, what part of Synara are you most interested in trying first? Invites, updates, or webhooks?
Swytchcode
@dryrunlabs I'm just curious what your product does, as a developer
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@chilarai I understand. In that case, the simplest way to put it is that Synara takes away all the weird edge-cases you get when you try to send or update events across Google, Outlook and Apple.
If you’ve ever dealt with ICS behaving differently between providers, or updates not landing consistently, that’s the area Synara handles for you.
Have you run into any calendar/invite issues in past projects, or is this more general curiosity?
Swytchcode
@dryrunlabs It's a general curiosity and would love to try that out
Wow — Synara could finally make calendar syncing feel effortless. Huge congrats on solving a decades-old headache!
Avaturn Live
Congrats on launch!
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@ruvik_milkis Thanks very much!