What is SkedPad?
SkedPad is a Californian Startup that solves the mess of finding a meeting time that is suitable for everyone involved.
It could be used for business purposes or just to meet your friends. (We use it!)
The name? A cheeky combo of “schedule” and “notepad”—because why not make productivity sound a bit more fun? It’s branding with a wink, and it sticks. People remember SkedPad not just for what it does, but for how effortlessly it fits into their daily grind.
The challenge
Time: SkedPad needed to be in production in less than a month as an MVP:
Transactional Emails, Business and Personal users accounts, Calendar View, Recurring Events and the whole point to point events confirmation process to get a meeting scheduled.
The idea
We moved the original idea of a MySQL database to a MongoDB database which allows us simplify the whole process of account creation and event process.
Not much more to say: full focus work in less than a month and we made it 😉
We also helped design a clean, no-nonsense interface that doesn’t scream “I’m late for five meetings.” Think smooth scheduling flow with the least clicks possible, and a calendar view that actually makes sense. Because nobody has time to wrestle with buttons when trying to sync three time zones.
SkedPad also came with its fair share of quirks—like syncing with calendars that behave more like moody teenagers than reliable tools. So we built in some serious logic to make sure events don’t vanish, clash, or time-travel. It’s all about turning chaos into calendar harmony, one invite at a time.
What now?
SkedPad was released in September (2017) and since then we have been working together to get them a great new UI and UX, integrated with other third-party calendars.
We are very proud of helping them create this project.
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Technologies:
MeteorJS, Docker, MongoDB, NodeJS.