The Makings of a Truly Universal Appointment Manager
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Why Automate Your Appointments?
What Is So Difficult About Scheduling An Appointment?
Since we launched YourAM, I had always wanted to write an article about the technology that was put into our product. Perhaps now is the right time to do it. Most people that use personal calendars do not understand the complexity of automating appointment bookings. To them it is a simple matter of seeing and blocking out available time on a dummy calendar interface. There are many solutions out there that already does this DIY scheduling. However, YourAM doesn't just do that because it is not merely a personal DIY productivity tool. We actually build YourAM to completely replace DIY scheduling systems and we think that we are close to achieving it. Here are some of the differences about YourAM and a dummy personal productivity tool like say Google calendar.
Who Is Using What?
Most businesses who sign up YourAM do not really know that they have a personalized public booking page on YourAM. So we recently released a new documentation on why you should sign up for your business booking page.
We are not going to discuss about the benefits of your own booking page in this posting. Instead, we want to talk about some of the people that are already using it. I'm sure you might know of a lot more but I just want to list a small example of very different users who we never thought would be using YourAM. We have mainly targeted traditional service based businesses such as spa, clinics, salon businesses and etc. However, our current user base seems to be showing us that our target market might be way bigger than we initially thought.
Why Is Your Feedback Important?
We wanted to explain why we are so obsessed with gathering feedback from you. We intentionally kept our initial version of YourAM simple. We merely focused on a few dedicated features that were important. Our model of approach to developing YourAM is to build a web application that mainly showcased our key ideas then bring in enough users to steer the product. We didn't want to build a product that nobody wanted to use and we didn't want to take too long to bring it to market. In short, we wanted YourAM to grow with its users to meet their business needs.
