How can WayCal benefit me?

May 25th, 2010 | WayCal
Most people create and refer to calendars as a means to managing their busy daily lives. The beauty of WayCal is that anyone can create a calendar for a group of friends, about an interest or hobby they have or for a geographic area that they live in. They can then invite other people to add events about that subject or area for even more people to find out about. Imagine that WayCal provides social networking through events, and you’ll start to see the power of the platform.
Examples of what you could use WayCal for:
1. Create a calendar for your town or village and encourage people to add events to it, categorising events by type and target age group.
2. Add a calendar about your favourite hobby, and then spread the word.
3. Start a calendar to help manage your work colleagues social events, classifying events appropriately.
4. Make a calendar for your school or university, something that everyone can add to and use, filtering by sport or activity type.
5. Search calendars for things to do at the weekend within 1 mile of the hotel you’re staying at on that boring business trip.
6. Find things for your parents to do that they didn’t know were happening within a mile of their home.
Events are what define our lives and make it worth living. WayCal helps you find more things to do, things you didn’t know were happening or that you were interested in.

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What makes WayCal unique?

May 25th, 2010 | WayCal

There are lots of calendars out there, and lots of websites that let you make your own calendar. WayCal is quite different though. Here are 10 things that WayCal does that make it such a compelling product:

1. WayCal lets you make a calendar private or keep it public.
2. WayCal lets you add filters so that viewers can hide the calendar events they aren’t interested in.
3. WayCal lets you search for events by distance from a location, and you can store unlimited locations.
4. WayCal lets anyone add events to your calendar if you make it public, and anyone within your nominated group if you make it private.
5. WayCal lets you view any WayCal calendar in any website (eg Google Calendar), computer program (eg Outlook), or computer type (eg iPhone) by exporting or subscribing to it.
6. WayCal lets you find other calendars with events happening within the geographic area you specify.
7. WayCal calendars mean you can quickly share the events you’re organising yourself with people who live close and are likely to be interested.
8. WayCal’s simple interface means creating calendars and adding events is simple and fast.
9. WayCal’s unique link between an event type and it’s place in time and space means finding things to do is simpler but more intuitive than ever before.
10. WayCal’s personalisation options mean that you can change the data displayed in your exported calendar by simply changing the subject, location and distance filters on the WayCal website.

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What is WayCal?

May 25th, 2010 | WayCal
It’s a calendar. Well actually it’s a website or ‘platform’ that lets you and anyone else create their own calendars. So it’s actually an infinite number of calendars, well as many as our servers can hold.

What is WayCal?It’s a calendar. Well actually it’s a website or ‘platform’ that lets you and anyone else create their own calendars. So it’s actually an infinite number of calendars, well as many as our servers can hold.

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Why WayCal happened

May 25th, 2010 | WayCal
We have been searching for a long time, to find a system that would allow us to immediately see what is on, in my location, at 7pm on Saturday night, filtering out all the topics we are not interested in. We couldn’t find a system, so we built WayCal.com.
Each person has their own interests, and these can now relate to the separate calendars we subscribe to. Of those interests (calendars), only the events that are local are worth displaying. There is also no need to show the parts of that calendar that are not relevant to us, this is where filters come in. I also want to add my own events and share them with the community formed around this calendar.
Many websites list hundreds of events down the page. Impossible to make sense of it or to filter it. The location filter is usually basic – see all of your city, or change cities – it actually takes us an hour and a half to get to the other side of our city – and what if I live in the country? No options.
With WayCal.com you see a week view, so you can immediatly see what is on at 7pm on Saturday night. Once you have found an event, you can see a map view to find other events that are in a similar location. Wouldn’t it be great to decide on an event and be able to see the other events also on straight after this event in the same area! Now you can with WayCal.com.
If I am passionate about something, and there is not already a calendar with my interest, I can create my own calendar and people will immediately be able to jump to this calendar from other calendars when they see it come up in the “More things to do” dialogue. I can create my own custom filters that relate directly to the topic of interest. Immediately, others who also share this interest, can add their own events, and they won’t show up for you if you’re only in a certain city and only want to show events within 5 miles.
If you travel to multiple locations around the world, why not add these locations too! With WayCal, you can see what is going on while you’re on holiday.
We hope you will begin to enjoy WayCal.com as much as we do!

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About the team

May 25th, 2010 | WayCal

The original WayCal team was small and consisted of Ian, Nathan, Phil and Justin; so 2009.

The 2010 team is even smaller and consists of just Nathan and Ian. Nathan manages development and technology, and Ian picks up the creative and content stuff.

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