Show HN: Share events to your friends' calendars (opens in new tab)

(save2cal.com)

2 pointsserced1y ago2 comments

This is about a cool hack for a trivial problem a friend and I faced. We couldn't invite friends to a summer party because we didn't have some of their email addresses. Next best option? Share a text in a Whatsapp group. However, does everyone keep the event in mind when planning other things?

Hence, we came up with save2cal.com. This javascript app allows you to create your event and share the link with your friends. When the link is clicked, it opens the calendar app with your content prefilled such that they can directly save the event. Happy to hear your thoughts!

One thing we'd love to change is making the links shorter. We don't store anything on the server side and encode all entered information in the string and decode it in the browser when the link is clicked. Then we generate the calendar file and open it. Ideas to make the link shorter? We could create a shortlink mapping, but then we would need to store data. We don't want that.

An example: https://save2cal.com/v1/index.html?data=JTdCJTIydCUyMiUzQSUy...

2 comments

leokster1y ago

Nice little tool, maybe you can add a "shorten url" button using a third party service. People who want max privacy don't need to shorten it.

sercedOP1y ago

Good idea, thanks! Generally we may need to add a short paragraph that no data is stored as this may not be clear.

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