Increasing the Signal: From Waitlist to Open Doors
Two months in, more features, more bugs, more humans - time to go open beta.
We’re two months exactly since the closed beta launch of Meet-Ting.
And you know what that means?
Lots of new features? Yes.
Lots of bugs? Oh yes.
Lots of new users? Grateful.
But most of all - it’s time to go from closed to open.
Why? We’ll never feel fully ready (well, I won’t - my CTO and team have been ready for weeks).
But there are a few good reasons, and I want to share them.
Waitlist friction
Waitlists can be powerful. Ours helped us qualify Gmail domains for the beta, and honestly it was fun hearing from people desperate to try Ting and letting them in one by one.
But the downside? Waiting.
We had 7.7k web visits and only 1.3k signups. That’s 6k people curious enough to take a look, but then they saw the waitlist and thought “maybe later.”
The growth marketer in me cries a little.
Reliability + data
I’ve been open about the challenge: Ting is a multiplayer social AI.
Most AI today is single-player, but Ting often negotiates across up to four people’s calendars.
Sometimes half are Ting users, half are not - so Ting has 50% intelligence, and still needs to find a time.
That’s complex negotiation - especially once you add human nuance, shifting time zones, and constant reschedules.
When it works, it’s amazing. But it’s not easy.
We’ve made progress on reliability, even hired a Chief Bug Finder (AI QA). But the rare natural resource we really need is usage.
More data, more mistakes, more learning. Just like life, the biggest lessons come from things not going to plan.
Think about it. The presentations at work that went great? We barely remember them. The ones where we crashed and burned? Lessons for life, some still keeping me up at night…
Building Ting feels the same - the face-plants teach us way more than the smooth landings.
So, we’re opening Ting up - and you’re cordially invited (if you’re on Gmail and WhatsApp, keep reading…).
New features
We’ve been busy. Some features came from our community, some from customer discovery, and some from just trusting our taste (a little Rick Rubin energy).
A few I’m excited for you to try:
WhatsApp: Talk to Ting as easily as texting a friend. Move meetings, find focus time, or let guests know you’re running late.
Link to Ting: Put a link anywhere online. Guests click, and a thread opens with you + Ting. It finds a time, you stay in CC, and reschedules stay in one thread.
Smart agendas: Ting pulls context from email threads into the meeting description, so you start with purpose.
Ting memories: Update preferences on the fly. “No meetings on Fridays.” “Block tomorrow morning.” Stored and remembered.
Integrations: Because Ting works through Gmail and WhatsApp, it plugs into almost any workflow already. Agencies, sales teams, and devs are testing Ting in new contexts - and we love seeing it.
Here we are
It’s always easier to judge than to build (another life lesson). So if you do judge, send it our way - feedback is gold. I promise not to cry.
Everything goes into Jira, and we debate it, even the small stuff.
Someone recently asked for a Gmail Assistant over WhatsApp (we hear you). Another suggested training Ting on your business - that one’s already been in the lab, so it was satisfying to hear.
Come in
Please come in. Book a meeting or two. Tell us what you love, what you don’t. Ting will be in touch after your first booking, or you can always message me directly.
The vision hasn’t changed: tech that understands time, strengthens relationships, and feels warm, considerate, emotionally intelligent.
And the only way to build that is with more humans, doing their usual messy thing in emails and messages - so keep being you, and Ting will learn.
Oh, and if you made it this far, enjoy:
Thanks for being here,
-Dan
Chief Ting