Schej is a browser-based collaborative scheduling platform that simplifies the process of finding a time for groups to meet by allowing you to autofill your availability with Google Calendar and see when everyone's availabilities overlap.
What's up Product Hunt, I'm Jonathan, co-founder of Schej!
As college students, my co-founders and I often experience the problem of finding a time to meet for group projects and club meetings because everybody has different schedules, club commitments, weekend activities, etc.
Currently, college students like ourselves gravitate towards two main platforms: When2Meet and Lettucemeet. These platforms gather a group's availability and then display the best times to meet. However, there are several issues with these platforms.
When2Meet is very simple to use, but its UI is not very mobile friendly and looks like it was designed in 2012 (spoiler alert: it was). When using When2meet, we would often have to tab back and forth between the When2meet and our Google Calendars to tediously manually fill out our availability.
Lettucemeet, on the other hand, has a much better UI and actually does support importing your Google Calendar events. However, when talking to users of Lettucemeet, we found out that next to no one knew about the Google Calendar integration and simply used it for its improved UI. Furthermore, even when using the Google Calendar integration, it only had support for a singular calendar associated with a singular Google account.
With all of these problems in mind, we created Schej, a scheduling platform that allows you to autofill your availability with your Google Calendar(s) to determine the best time for your group members to meet. We wanted to not only highlight our pretty UI and mobile friendliness, but also emphasize our Google Calendar integration front and center.
Our greater vision for Schej is to leverage the power of calendars (with a focus on Google Calendar right now) to become the best scheduling assistant. Imagine being able to create a group that would allow you to continuously check group members' auto-updating Google Calendar availability each week. Imagine that instead of having to translate your calendar's availability to text, you could automatically screenshot blocked off times or copy-paste your availability on certain days in text message format. The possibilities are endless and we're just getting started!
Let us know in the comments if you have any feedback for Schej or our greater vision for the product!
Let's Schej it :)
I've been using Schej for a while now. This is my default over when2meet and when friends see it, it becomes theirs too. Great idea, execution, and team. Congrats on the launch @jony1266!
Hey congrats on the launch! I always use when2meet but found it to be a bit barebones so this is awesome.
Will definitely give it a try 😁
Schej is very helpful for club meetings! It makes it a lot easier to find an availability for everyone because of different schedule. Schej is user intuitive and easy to use.
Incredible app to use as a college or highschool student. Even got my little brother on it and he loves it!
Congrats on launching Schej @jony1266
Schej seems like it will solve the scheduling hassles faced by college students and the Google Calendar integration is prudent. I love the vision of the platform evolving into a comprehensive scheduling assistant - neat roadmap.
My biggest question is how do you plan on getting users to switch from their already existing processes to adding an additional software or what can be seen as an added step to solve an issue many might not even feel they have?
I was very frustrated with when2meet and lettucemeet, but after using schej all of my anger issues went away!
I absolutely LOVE Schej, it has made scheduling my lab's weekly meetings so much easier! I love the feature where you can automatically add the best time slot to your Google calendar and invite everyone that filled it out, what a time saver.
Schej looks like an excellent way to take the hassle out of planning group events - how does it use Google Calendar and other data to make scheduling easier?
Upvoted! Interesting tool. This will really help you spend more time with people. After all, it will now be easy to find free time, since there is this tool that will track group's time
