[Feedback Request] Timing .is – your calendar reimagined

Hi everyone,

We’re indie co-founders bootstrapping timing.is for iOS and recently crossed a milestone of 100 customer calls for our “private” alpha. We believe despite the hundreds of calendar and to-do products that exist today, not one has nailed the user experience and feature set that would make being productive feel natural and dare we say fun. So we’ve been on a mission to design and build the calendar/time-management of our dreams and we need your help.

A little about us, we’ve known each other for 25 years and had our first stint of a partnership back in middle-school (early internet days). Fast forward 20 years and we both decided to quit our jobs at the start of this year to build timing full-time. We’ve manually onboarded all our initial users to maximize learning and it’s been an immensely valuable source for feedback — a lot of which we’ve acted on to shape the product you’ll hopefully try today.

Now we’re at the stage where the majority of usability and UX issues have been addressed and the app is at the performance / stability benchmarks you would expect. What we’d love to do now is go deeper on the actual value proposition and put the product in more users hands, this time without our hands-on involvement — though we’re always open.

So if there are productivity app early-adopters among you, we’d love your feedback on what we have so far.

Outside of the overall design aesthetic and ux, here are some things we’d love for you to try…

We’ve created “Perspective views” so you can view your calendar through a variety of different criteria. For example, you can quickly see your non-recurring meetings, your 1:1s, your longer time commitments and so on. We’d love to know if you find this valuable and what other “perspectives” you’d want to see.
We let you capture what’s “Top of mind” by giving you a blank canvas so you can capture your goals for the day beyond your calendar commitments. This is meant to be a digital replacement of that all important “post-it” note we all seem to still use.
We help you schedule your reminders into your life (aka your calendar) through simple drag/drop planning tools. We hope this means that the list won't continue to grow out of hand and you can block the necessary time to get shit done.

There’s a lot more bells/whistles (perhaps too many?), but these are some of the highlights you’re likely to encounter.

To download the TestFlight build (iOS only right now, sorry), checkout https://timing.is/indies

If you have any other feedback on anything at all, we’re all ears and would love to chat with you.

Cheers.