Host calendar feature

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CS attempted to make a hosting calendar similar to AirBnB, and my understanding is that it worked well - people couldn’t request times you had blocked off due to having another guest already or for personal reasons. However, it was only available on the app. I think the host calendar is a great feature and would like to see it included in Couchers.org.

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It’d also be good to have a calendar full of all other info (events, trips, etc.), and that could output a calendar file that could update with people’s personal calendars (like gmail)

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Agree calendar is a nice feature. It could also be used to plan your trips and by specifying where you’ll be in a specific date, make it easier to connect to local hosts and events.

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as long as the calendar is a personal tool with the ability to hide it from public view.
It can be used to show “available hosts” for example, but I don’t want to share my calendar to the world just like that.

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I’ll write briefly please do ask me to elaborate if something is not clear:

  • do not block calendar automatically - some people can host two different people at the same time.
    *This is essential for filtering, which is in my opinion a high priority.
    *Add the possibly for users to manually input what they are doing on specific days so the people could choose also based on that if they want to stay at a person’s place could be really cool! (E.g. beach party - you’re invited, hackathon - you are invited, going on a date - you are not invited)
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Yeah it’s always the best experience when this happens! We’re including an option to explicitly say that you’re open to it.

Good idea! I wonder if people would manually update this. We could always include an option to import descriptions from events, but then that might introduce a safety issue as your host calendar will be publicly available.

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We could allow turning off this feature, set the default to not public and ask people specifically if their events to be public? It’s a trade off but I’m sure some people would find this very useful! Also this reminds me- has there been a discussion about public profiles (without logging in to couchers)? If no I’ll start one…