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Show HN: I made a minimalistic AI calendar creator to accelerate daily planning (calendarplusai.com)

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To test implementing AI (and paywalls tbh) in software for the first time, I made this simple calendar creator (no mail address required) that lets a person create a calendar based on his needs and availability and export it to his calendar app, pdf or receive a daily newsletter with his daily tasks (and more).

After wrestling with different models (f.e. with huggingface) and encountering different problems, I decided to use ChatGPT's models, tune them a little and see how the result works out. ChatGPT's low price enables me to give users the opportunity to create calendars for free and without a mail address required.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/UeZmqXcU5fY?feature=shared

The website/tool includes:

- Creating your calendar based on a title, date range and a description

- Editing and "polishing" the calendar until getting a desired result

- Exporting the calendar to your calendar app (can be Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, etc...)

- Exporting the calendar to PDF

- Signing up for a daily newsletter that contains a user's daily tasks, reminders, special ai notes and more!

Some technical stuff:

- I am using firestore database and paypal payments

- I am always using the latest-fastest ChatGPT AI model (as generation-time is really important here)

- The website is created with Nuxt 3 (Nuxt for vuejs is what Next is for reactjs) and designed with tailwindcss

14 comments

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ilancreates
Hey! My name's Ilan.

First of all, thanks for reading the whole thing above. I am coding for at least 7 years now (I don't really remember when I started) but I started creating SaaS only about couple of months ago. So, the whole marketing thing is a problem for me. If you find any problem in the product or have suggestions - I'll be super happy to here!

I really don't love sign-ups and slow user experience, so I tried my website to have neither of them. Hope I succeeded.

Mathnerd314
I looked into doing something like this and I was like "Todoist has AI, Notion has AI, how am I going to do any better than them?" So I didn't start. At this point I have specific prompts for ChatGPT and when I need this functionality I manually copy/paste them in and copy/paste the output into the todo apps.

Even after trying the site, I still don't think you have a marketable product, but kudos for shipping. I hope to see you back in a year with "How I made 1 million dollars shipping SaaS apps" blog post. ;-)

ilancreates
Thank you very much! To be honest, it began as a training exercise for me to learn how to ship SaaS and implement AI in it. It did get some attraction online so I wanted to push it a little. Anyways, thank you for your honesty! Appreciate it!
pimlottc
I don’t understand this at all. How is this going to help me create a calendar? It says it will send me tasks - what tasks?

The website needs a lot more explanation.

8mobile
It is not very clear how the ai will help me with this app. Does it create a planner for me based on the task I want to perform? Does it produce a calendar or something else? It is a software. If you can explain in a video how to use it. Thanks
AriyanWasi
Nice, its basically the demo that OpenAI showed when they unveiled the code interpreter but come to life. I haven't seen is a product before though. Good job.
freshlentils
as someone who creates and updates training plans for cycling, this is rly neat

it could be cool to be able to upload studies or point to websites or anything else that would be relevant context for the AI to produce better calendars

e.g. sometimes I'll be motivated by a training study I recently read, if the AI could easily build me a training calendar based on the study that'd be pretty cool

r0fl
This was too confusing to figure out in 3 seconds so I left

Sounded like a great concept but execution should be revisited