CTO @ Meetup. She leads the engineering team with a focus on continuous learning, iterating, and using data to launch software that brings people together around the world to do what matters to them.
We allow members to add meetup events to their calendar across all the major platforms. It's even easier to do in our apps than our web product. I love that feature myself because my calendar is so full that it's essential for me to block off times for meetups!
But if you mean integrate people's personal calendars and free/busy time that is a bigger technical and product challenge. We are very dedicated to respecting people's privacy and data security and we would also need to build those features in a way that are truly useful. We'll keep working on it!
Any intention on better integration with calendar platforms? It's the biggest barrier of entry for many people into Meetup.
What are the biggest hurdles?
We allow members to add meetup events to their calendar across all the major platforms. It's even easier to do in our apps than our web product. I love that feature myself because my calendar is so full that it's essential for me to block off times for meetups!
But if you mean integrate people's personal calendars and free/busy time that is a bigger technical and product challenge. We are very dedicated to respecting people's privacy and data security and we would also need to build those features in a way that are truly useful. We'll keep working on it!
Wow, trying it from in-app is so much easier than I remember. It must have been my web-experience that was frustrating!
Thanks for taking the time to reply, can't wait to dive back in.