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  1. Start a group with your name, and copy the invite link it gives you.
  2. Open the link in a second browser profile (or a private window) and join as a friend.
  3. Mark the friend's hours. Until they do, the group's week is hidden from them: the blind grid. Mark yours in the first window and watch theirs arrive.
  4. Propose the best time and say you're in. It goes straight into Google Calendar, or any calendar as a .ics file.
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My README is Hangout’s landing page. My tutor, Bill, agreed I could use the app’s landing page as my README, so this file holds no text version of it. Read the README on the landing page.

Each heading below is one the README is expected to have. Under it is a link to the section of the landing page that stands in for it, and what that section covers, so you know exactly what to read to mark each part.

What good means here

Read: From “we should hang out” to remembering it

What good means for Hangout: beating the group chat at each step of a plan’s life, as seven points along a timeline. The blind grid is the big idea.

What I read and looked at

Read: Why Hangout beats the other ways

The alternatives (When2meet, Doodle, the group chat), an animated open grid against a blind one, and the two studies behind the blind grid, cited and linked.

What I chose not to build

Read: Built for your friends, not everyone

What I left out on purpose and why (passwords and Google sign-in, a chat, a feed), what that costs, and where I stand on Sloan’s and Shirky’s writing.

What’s enforced, and what’s judged

Read: How we know it works

Every claim the tests enforce, each linked to its test, and every claim judged with real people, with how it’s judged.

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