FreeTime

Calendly for friends

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Calendly for friends

3 followers

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Match free time with friends and hang out in real life again. Simply add in your free time, share your link, and your friends can book hangouts without signing up or downloading anything. Even better, follow your close friends to always see when they're free.

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Launch tags:Social Media•Calendar

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Maker

Hey ProductHunt! We’re Josh & Kelley, a team of two who created FreeTime to solve a simple problem: it’s too dang hard to find time to hang out with our friends. Hanging out with people used to be easy and natural. Our friends were people we saw several times every week. We shared life together. It’s much more difficult now (even before the pandemic). Everyone has work events, or soccer practice, or playdates, or all of the above. How does anyone fit a social life into all that? Does anyone over 30 actually have real friends? You’ve been there, you’re free on Friday, so you text a friend, but they’re not free until next Monday, but you’re busy that day… so you just give up and spend another night watching Netflix while scrolling through social media. Social apps were supposed to bring us closer together, but it doesn’t feel like they’ve succeeded. We want to see people in real life again, not watch their Instagram stories or read their hot takes on Twitter. We found ourselves wishing there was a way to easily see when all our friends were available each week and effortlessly book time to hang out. No back and forth. No calendar Tetris. So we spent our year of quarantine looking ahead, dreaming about a world we break out of our Zoom boxes again, and building FreeTime. It’s a site where the entire goal is to help you spend less time on your phone, not use algorithms to get you addicted to feeding data to ad bots. Try it out, add in some time, send your link to all the friends and family you miss, and then get off the Internet. Have coffee. Share a meal. Go bowling. Reclaim your free time.

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5yr ago

Although this looks like a very practical product, it doesn't feel right to me having your friends on a list with a "book" button next to them

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5yr ago

@alexander_p1 "Book" should really be something like "Hang Out".

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5yr ago

Maker

Thanks for the feedback! “Hang out” is more accurate to how the action is described everywhere else in the app. Good call. I chose “Book” simply because it was short and fit on the button nicely 😂

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5yr ago

Envoy

@secondfret Hang (instead of Book or Hang out) - Or just make it be the type of event (coffee, lunch, dinner, drinks, movie....)

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5yr ago

chaosMachine

This is exactly what I needed! The only question if it is still usable if no friends are using the app? Still not sure how to organize an event with many people involved

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5yr ago

Maker

@alexander_kabirov Yep! This was our key goal in building the app. Even if your friends have never heard of the app, you can send them your link and they can book time with you without signing up or downloading anything. It's IMPOSSIBLE to convince your friends to sign up for something so it was very important to us to make sure that wasn't necessary.

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5yr ago

Baserow

As a proponent of no-code, love to see that it was built in Bubble. What are your thoughts/plans for monetizing FreeTime (even if early)? I noticed ads seemed to be hinted at in the privacy policy.

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5yr ago

Great design, appreciate the work that has gone into this! Just because "you can" do something however, doesn't mean "you should". This concept actually does the opposite of making things simple, it actually adds hurdles to make it more difficult. Not trying to be mean and I hope this is considered constructive feedback for any innovators reading this, but no-one is ever going to adopt/use this product because most people figure out when to meet via voice, in person, using their brain, and/or via text/e-mail. Adding an app/service into the equation is just going to add unnecessary complexity. The entire concept is entirely superfluous. What kind of friends start a discussion about hanging out by sending them an invitation to "book" a time with them?! It's such a cold, unsociable, and drawn out experience! It just drives me crazy when people use their talents to create stuff that will never ever get off the ground. Feel free to come back in 12 months to prove me wrong but I just can't see this getting any traction.

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5yr ago

I was using Calendly the other day and almost used it on family to arrange a call. The one reason I didn't... it felt very formal and cold (but the functionality of Calendly was exactly what I needed). FreeTime hits that sweet spot! The design, voice, and tone of the landing page are super strong. Great work!

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5yr ago

Maker

@new_user_f61ff363a1 thanks so much Paul! That's EXACTLY what we were going for!

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5yr ago

Creative Market Pro

This is so handy. Y’all are solving a very real problem with such an elegant solution. My favorite feature is the toggle to show overlapping time between friends. Lovely work!

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5yr ago

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