Hi,

🏋️ Here’s what happened at Rise:

• We got a letter from Rise.com that they own trademarks on their name and logo and want us to change our name (and logo). We don’t want to spend too much energy on this so might change our name now it’s still early. But before we do that a good lawyer we found will still try to see if we can get to an agreement. If you have any experience on this we’d love to hear from you.
• We made an offer to an exciting front-end engineer. Fingers crossed.

🌅 Product updates:

• Shipped FAT (Find a Time) alternatives flow. Before this update when you tried to find a time and someone would be double-booked or out of office we wouldn’t return any results. With this update we try to do some good suggestions, i.e. make the meetings shorter or widen your time window.

https://www.loom.com/share/3d216a9aa26b4413870c233e99518eb4

• Willem is busting his ass on AutoPilot. We expect to have that testable for some of our users this cycle.

• It’s now easier to change the time window after you requested a time with Find a Time. Simply navigate to the next week to see suggestions there as well.

• Basic recurring event creation. No custom intervals yet but a list of predefined sets.

  

• You can now view your colleague’s event details. Previously we only shared the calendar but you couldn’t click the events and therefore it was sometimes hard to see what the meeting was about or who’s attending that meeting.

🔮 What’s next:

• Start testing AutoPilot. This is big and we’re really excited for this
• Start experimenting with showing focus time that can be reclaimed instead of the rating bars we used to have. We think its more helpful to show +2h instead of 5 green bars.
• We’ll highlight our suggestions to reschedule events a bit more aggressive when a meeting can improved a lot
• Implement this left sidebar. It’s been requested numerous times and will exploit another way to find a time with your colleagues.