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Reminder: tell a startup today if you like the improvements in the product. It’ll make their day (and year).

Ting Dev Update - 26 Mar 2026 📅 Week 34: A week of bug and reliability focus. *Shipped / Fixed* - Fixed issues so meeting titles are more reliable when data is missing. - Improved the ignore check so Ting doesn't miss setting up meetings ever. - Fixed returning Zoom links for Microsoft events, improving cross-platform compatibility. - Investigated some leaked reasoning in an edge case. *In Progress* - Adding support for Calendly links for non-Ting users. - Continued rollout of WhatsApp improvements and a direct onboarding flow. - Exploring usage patterns to better align limits and monetisation behaviour. We *may* be working on something big at the same time... 👽

Five seconds before an important call, I forget why I'm any good at what I do. My brain starts convincing me I'm about to be executed. And then I do it anyway. Every time. We all self-edit + self-reject. Article on why the biggest blocker to most things you want may be you: x.com/dbul/status/20…

Time is strategy hiding in your calendar: open.substack.com/pub/chiefting/…

Ting Dev Update - 20 Mar 2026 📅 Week 33: WhatsApp templates, scheduling fixes, and memory updates... *Shipped / Fixed* - Week Ahead updates now coming to WhatsApp from Sunday. - Pre-meeting messages also rolling out on WhatsApp. - Added support for updating blocked time directly, including title, description, and time. - Improved timezone handling in threads, so Ting is better at spotting the right timezone and explaining it in a more natural way. - Improved the ignore flow again, so Ting is less likely to reply when it should stay out of the thread. - Reduced over-confirmation in long threads, especially in messy “book it anyway” situations. - Added a line to calendar events showing which email address created the meeting if the user has multiple calendar connections and creates a meeting with non-primary. - Fixed the signed-out upgrade flow so people can upgrade when they hit the 10 booked meeting limit. - Added more message context into memory handling, so requests like “make it 2 hours” are understood as a meeting change, not a personal preference. - Fixed an in-person location bug. - Default buffer time is now 0, which simplifies scheduling behaviour. *In Progress* - A first version of memory extraction during onboarding shipped behind a feature flag so Ting gets to know you faster. Improving onboarding memory quality before turning the feature flag fully on. - Added a first version of Calendly link availability checking for non-Ting users. - More work on WhatsApp onboarding and template rollout. Now, back to work... 🏗️

Dialing up the temperate on our scheduling AI in email to have some more fun. Email is boring, let @justccting make it bearable.

@b1rdmania @xav_db @emergenceldn @justccting Sent :)

@dbul @xav_db @emergenceldn @justccting Should be working now / my bad

London has one of the deepest AI and tech scenes in the world. It’s fragmented. AI in King’s Cross. Fintech in the City. Web3 in Shoreditch. Biotech in White City. VCs in Mayfair. Everyone’s building. Nobody’s in the same room. So I’m building Emergence. April 28–30. One calendar. The whole city. No conference centre. No main stage. No £500 tickets. You run the event. We handle the calendar + distribution. Looking for hosts and community partners.

@b1rdmania @xav_db @emergenceldn Contact page is not working, but happy to help out with @justccting somehow 😎

@xav_db @emergenceldn Do it!

@jmoserr Also can't delete account

Literally does…no tasks that an actual CMO does 🤣 Starting to realize 95% of AI tools are just marketed towards stingy solopreneur + SMBs. People who want to pay $10/mo rather than make the key hires or investments needed to actually grow their biz.

@rayansadri Same, disappointing.

Tried it out. So the product scans stuff, then it shows Reddit tells me people post about my company, surfaces competitors I already knew about ages ago, wraps it in a dashboard, and wants me to scream “OMG we saved $60k. At this point I’m convinced half of startup hype is just polished demos. How’s this the “ultimate CMO” for me

I spent years running marketing at TikTok and adidas. Now I'm marketing a 3-person startup with no budget. Here's what works - plus some free tools: chiefting.substack.com/p/marketing-yo…

I didn't know no-shows waste 15-40% of every sales team's calendar until I met a stranger at @WebSummit. I was standing by our booth when someone wandered over and started asking about what we're building at @justccting. I assumed he was just curious. Then he mentioned his company loses a lot of time to no-shows across his sales team. I asked how many. "We get 10,000 inbound demos a month." He walked off eventually, and someone came over to me and said: "Do you know who that was?". Turns out he was head of sales at a EU unicorn. We stayed in touch. And that conversation became a feature! We call it 'No Show Recovery'. Ting watches your calendar. If it notices the other person didn't show up, it asks if you want help rescheduling - automatically, inside the same thread. When you're running 10k sales calls a month and 15-40% don't show, recovering even 1-5% is hundreds of meetings saved and potential $$$s. Other lesson, talk to people as if you want and expect nothing in return. I hate it when I feel people are working me over. Try it now anyway at meet-ting.com 🍿

Ting Dev Update - 13 Mar 2026 📅 Week 32: better scheduling decisions, cleaner emails, and more WhatsApp work... *Shipped / Fixed* - New serendipity feature to reconnect you with “people you haven’t met in a while”, while staying within the 90-day data retention limit. - Week Ahead and pre-call briefs now available in WhatsApp as well as email. - Landing pages were updated, including pricing and business, better email and WhatsApp demo visibility. - Improved awkward email wording so Ting is better at using “you” instead of sounding confused about who it’s addressing. - Added a line in calendar events showing which email address created the meeting. - Fixed edge case for meetings starting too close to the current time by improving how Ting filters and ranks near-term slots. - Reduced unnecessary over-confirming in long threads and allow guests to confirm for others. - Removed the optional participant filter in calendar event creation to simplify the flow. - Fixed meeting attendance emails so Ting now respects the user’s settings before sending them. - Fixed Microsoft calendar rescheduling/declining issues by pulling the organiser info properly before deciding what to do. - Added stronger email matching so if a guest later becomes a Ting user, we can recognise them correctly. - Fixed time slot ranking so Ting is less likely to send a “no availability” email when ranking fails. It now handles those errors more clearly instead of failing silently. - Removed an old thread-matching fallback that was causing Ting to group messages into the wrong thread. *In Progress* - ChatGPT MCP app review in submission. - More WhatsApp rollout work, including template approvals and onboarding flow. - Continued work on cold-start memories for onboarding flow so Ting can know you from day zero. A week full of 'boringly reliable', next week back to work on the big features 👽

When the marketing team ships an update. New website overhaul to let users test Ting before they signup. Try now: meet-ting.com

Ting Dev Update - 6 Mar 2026 📅 Week 31: clearer actions, better memory handling, and a big landing page refresh coming up! *Shipped / Fixed* - MCP connection compatibility fixes for more tools, including Mistral / Le Chat support. - Ting can now update meeting titles and descriptions, making it easier to adjust calendar details without doing it manually. - Fixed cases where Ting chose the wrong next step in a conversation: for example asking follow-up questions when it should have simply offered times. - Fixed issues when users asked for a different meeting duration, so Ting now picks the right action more consistently. - Improved attendee lookups in direct messages, so Ting can now find email addresses from memory and message history when needed. - Improved cancellation reliability, including better handling of all-day events and fewer failures when Ting already has the event ID it needs. - Fixed Ting saying it couldn’t delete memories when it should be able to. - Added more protection against wrong memory changes, with extra examples and logging to help catch mistakes earlier. - Fixed meeting links being double-encoded, which was breaking some URLs. - Fixed timezone-related slot suggestions so users no longer get odd late-night alternatives just because of conversion issues. - Improved language detection so English messages are less likely to be mistaken for German, and added a safeguard for low-confidence cases. - Fixed title generation edge case so if AI creates a poor title, the fallback title now works properly. - Ran onboarding analysis, including drop-off by step and device, to understand where users are leaving. *In Progress* - Big landing page refresh shipping, including new pages, updated structure, new pricing page and Ting for Business. - Increasing notifications such as Week Ahead and Pre Call Briefing via WhatsApp. - Onboarding getting a small UX improvement with a bigger Skip button to make it easier to move through setup. - Adding a failsafe so if a user is effectively booking time with themselves, Ting uses block time instead of trying to create a meeting invite. - Adding the Simplora logo to connections 👀 Keep an eye out for a community email next week with all the new features to test out... 👽

What if scheduling a meeting was as easy as sending a voice note on WhatsApp? Now it is. For crazy bosses and calendars try now on meet-ting.com 💅

This is the future of trust and safety imho, AI realtime fact checking so community can self calm

Ting Dev Update - 27 Feb 2026 📅 Week 30: Smoother reschedules, better messages, and Voice now live... *Shipped / Fixed* - Ting Voice live...! Say what you need and Ting will help via WhatsApp. - Voice messages are now tracked as audio vs. text, and Ting can share the exact transcription if a user asks what they said. - Improved “book it anyway” handling again - fewer cases where Ting gets stuck because it can’t confidently pick a time. - Ting now understands “anything works” when a user is choosing from suggested times, and proceeds without extra back-and-forth. - Fixed tricky rescheduling cases for recurring meetings. - Fixed cases where Ting was addressing the wrong person in an email. - Made meeting limits more reliable by tracking the 24-hour usage window properly (and tightened some event filtering). - Meeting titles are now translated properly (not stuck in English when the user is in another language). - Fixed schedule summaries showing past dates. - Improved cancellation cleanup: when a meeting is cancelled, Ting now also removes related follow-up events so it doesn’t chase people for a meeting that no longer exists. - Made Microsoft connections more reliable by saving the new refresh token (Microsoft rotates tokens; older ones expire). - Added clearer re-auth messaging when an Outlook connection can’t be reached. - Improved reliability of email generation when the model goes off the rails. - Removed the “Blocked:” prefix from calendar blocks (users didn’t like it). - Ongoing calendar consistency work (making sure declined events are filtered everywhere, not just in one flow). - Website updates: timezone converter page design fixed, privacy page updated. *In Progress* - New feature: let users ask Ting to update the title/description of a meeting. - Week Ahead soon available to be sent on WhatsApp. - Including some improvements to the WhatsApp Week Ahead version (formatting and what content should/shouldn’t carry over from email). - Fixing a timezone memory bug where Ting can mistakenly update your timezone when you’re talking about someone else’s. - Website landing page iterations underway to show Ting in all its glory. Thanks for following along as always 👽

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