I'm finishing Flatcal https://flatcal.com a service that merges icalendar streams from various sources into one. It's weird that we can create multiple calendars to better organize scheduling and then to share availability we have to send each one as a separate link. It helps with more than that but sharing multiple calendars as one is the main goal atm.
I was working on a new website for https://flatcal.com. With Flatcal I'm trying[1] to scratch my own itch when sharing busy status with .ics calendars. My life is organized between corporate (Outlook), private (GCal) and freelance (various) calendars. Finding a freebusy slot or sharing my accessibility is not easy, and sending someone multiple links makes a little sense. So I figured that I will build calendar processing pipeline that will merge, filter, anonymize, inject, rewrite (etc) calendar events can solve this problem for me. And having all of them merged into a single .ics file is way easier to share, and safer too.
[1] Being solopreneur/micro-SaaS/do it all yourself dev is way more work than I thought
This month I was working on improving on SEO for my Flatcal side project: https://flatcal.com. It's a service that can combine multiple online calendar feeds into a single one for easier sharing with other people. Instead five calendars you can just send one that contains all busy/free status. The closer to release I am the more non-coding work there is to do. Oh well, just different part of the fun
Nice thread! A lot of interesting projects. Fingers crossed for all of them
On my side, I'm working on https://flatcal.com that aims at simplifying sharing multiple calendars from different sources as one ical link. Like combining work, freelance, and personal calendars to display my busy time for easier scheduling etc. I'm finishing handling time zones which are messy as each provider has its own approach, but manageable. Expect it soon :) A have a huge list of usages for it so not short on ideas right now. But first things first, I need to focus on releasing the basics now. I'm having way to much fun with this one
Is it worth it? Should we fight against search engine with workarounds like this? Looks like AI is just another problem with Google Search. But maybe I don't feel this pain like you do. I've fixed them all about a year ago by switching to Kagi and never looked back.
Well, maybe at the beginning a little bit, but I like Kagi results more than Google now.
It gives some signal that users want a simple web search, but ultimately the HN crowd is a small minority, so it'll be statistically insignificant. I wonder how many strings were pulled to get the web search in in the first place.
https://flatcal.com - a service which will allow to consolidate multiple calendars into a single one for easy sharing with others. For people who organize their time in separate calendars by choice or by necessity. F.e. having personal Google Calendar, corporate Outlook Calendar for work, and maybe another one for freelance. No AI involved, just a good, old processing pipeline. Which makes the service pretty flexible and allow to pre-process the events before merging them into a new calendar, i.e. anonymize events, change their type, filter them out, add some buffer time for rest, etc.
In 2012 I had a hard time looking for a job in my trained engineering field, so I’ve decided to do something constructive with the spare time between interview calls and meetings. I took some new tech (back then) like WebGL, Canvas, Workers and combined them with 3D modeling, matrix math, 3D printing limitations. It was a lot of fun and I’ve learned a lot.
The day it went live on production I had this feeling “ok, it’s done, what now?”. SEO, social media, ads, all of them needed some time to kick in. I’ve added to the CV my fresh, new, software engineering experience and sent few of them for frontend developer positions. Got a job the very next day. Even now, when it is already dated, has a lot of technical debt or looks like coded by a 3 yr old, we did had a good laugh at the expense of my younger self, discussing how my craft has changed. It’s a great conversation starter, and a live example that you can deliver, however it looks like. I will refactor it one day. I hope.
Since then, during job seeking, no code assignment was ever needed.
