Rise helps you schedule, optimize and protect your day to give you more time for what’s important. It’s a beautiful calendar that uses hundreds of signals to find the best times to meet, resolve conflicts and blocks off focus time. You are in charge.
Hello Product Hunt!
We’re excited to finally be able to share Rise with all of you today. Rise is a smart calendar that helps you schedule and automatically optimizes your day. We’ve been working on this for the past 2,5 years, and we hope you want to take it for a spin for a fresh approach to tackling your busy schedule.
And the numbers don’t lie that we need help when it comes to how we spend our time: we’re overwhelmed, distracted and we have a hard time making time for things that really matter. One billion knowledge workers (that probably includes you!) are able to spend just 39% per week on their *real work*. No wonder we all feel like we’re in survival mode.
We believe that remarkable works happens when you are able to bring the best version of yourself. And the way we divide our time matters a lot. It can be the difference between always running behind or having the piece of mind to do amazing stuff. So if you ever felt overloaded, or felt you’d love to get even more out of your week, Rise is for you.
Our focus and unique approach is a combination of a smart scheduling engine and a beautifully rich calendar app. We believe this is the path to make a powerful tool accessible to everyone, and not just people like you – the savvy product experts.
We actually have seen this team impact happening. Here's Johan, Co-founder at Brainstud, who has been using Rise with his entire crew:
"With Rise our schedules just flow better, I no longer have to think about double bookings and finding time with both the team and external customers has become super simple. And the team is having more focus time in their calendars, without having to think about it at all!”
Key features:
- Automatic conflict resolving: flexible events automatically move around to make sure everyone can make it
- FocusGuard: block off time automatically as your schedule fills up to protect your focus time
- Multiple accounts: connect as many Google accounts as you’re managing to have a unified overview of your schedule
- Meet & Reschedule: effortlessly schedule and move meetings without manually looking for a time that works
- External scheduling links with preferred slots: share scheduling links that nudge people to pick slots that work best for you
- Cross-calendar blocking: automatically synchronize events between calendars to eliminate double bookings forever
- Menu bar app & auto-join: the Rise menu bar app shows what’s next, allows you to join meetings with one click. Enable auto-join to make sure you’re always on time for the next virtual session.
- Teamlist: see what your teammates are up to
- Timezones: stop calculating times manually by opening up unlimited extra timezones. Rise also automatically shows the timezone of your colleagues.
- Deep Google Workspace integration: sync (optionally) your contacts, groups and meeting rooms so you can use and manage them from Rise
But don’t take our word for it. Here’s what some of our friends say about Rise:
"Flexible meetings, upcoming meetings in the menu bar, the focus guard feature paired with a powerful command bar - Rise helps me maintain the right balance between doing, managing and leading while making planning easier than before.” – Amon Menzel, Join.com
"Rise has been a game-changer for our team. The flexible meeting feature has not only increased our productivity but also reduced conflicts and stress. It's like having a personal assistant for your calendar!” – Yoeri Severy, Yappa
“Rise is awesome. Can’t live without it anymore.” – Adriaan Mol, Mollie
“Rise has made managing my day effortless. We have used it across our team and had definitely helped finding the best time to meet and ensure we are not wasting time during some of our busiest hours.” – Neel Thakrak, Tuck
“Cross-calendar blocking in Rise is awesome. It seamlessly integrates my personal and work calendars, ensuring I never double-book or miss important events.” – Tuomas Artman, Linear
We want you and your team to go from overwhelmed to electrified, every single day. We have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and we cannot wait to hear your feedback.
About Rise on Product Hunt
“The calendar that works for you”
Rise launched on Product Hunt on September 19th, 2023 and earned 280 upvotes and 44 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Rise helps you schedule, optimize and protect your day to give you more time for what’s important. It’s a beautiful calendar that uses hundreds of signals to find the best times to meet, resolve conflicts and blocks off focus time. You are in charge.
On the analytics side, Rise competes within Meetings, Calendar and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 504.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Rise performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Rise?
Rise was hunted by Emiel Janson. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Emiel Janson