I’mFree
Sending your friends your availability to meet up
The problem is that when someone has free time but doesn’t want to ask specific people because they don’t want to appear needy. My hypothesis is that a person is more likely to make plans with someone if they knew that they were going to be free at that time. I can understand the problem more by finding out how many hangout requests are sent over chat per day or week.
The solution would be a way to post your availability and when your friends check the app, they can start a chat with you to make plans. It’s not as intrusive to the user’s friends and is a more passive way to make plans. It would integrate with Messenger to get contacts and can link the user to their chats.
Risks
Users may find this is too heavyweight to use something new for availability — this is the hypothesis to test if it’s worth it.
Friends may not check the app to see availabilities — notifications can be considered.
Design
The user can set their availability:
And then post the availability to friends:
If availabilities are sent to a user, they can see who is free and start a chat with them.
When the user made or did not make plans, they can cancel and let the system know if they made plans or not.
KPIs
- Availabilities posted
- Chats started
- Plans made