Gong Blog

We’ve been working hard to ensure Gong is a simple and easy way to manage your life and we’ve got some great new features to announce.

Explore new events from your calendar

One aspect that we thought was important was to let you explore and find events that are happening around you.

The all new Explore section helps you find public events to add to your timeline. You can then create private gongs and invite, organise and chat with your friends about what you’ll do together at the event. It’s ideal for when you want to organise a private group about a public event, like a concert, festival, or sports event. Cool! 🤘

Easily add Google calendars to your timeline

We’ve had a lot of feedback from users to add Google calendars to your Gong timeline. Consider it done 😘

Give us feedback

With new features come new ideas and potential issues, so please let us know if you find or have any. If you have any further comments or suggestions about these new features or anything else about Gong, I’d love to hear from you 🤙

Thanks for staying in touch and being a part of the Gong journey.

— Jay from Gong

We were hunted on ProductHunt recently and the response was fantastic. Aside from having Gong v1.0 finally in peoples’ hands, we received a great amount of support and feedback to improve.

It seems like everyone really appreciates that Gong helps manage events, friends and the communications in-between all in one attractive app.

We’re looking to refine and expand our core features to help our users think less about managing events, dates and availabilities, and more about what’s on next.

If you have any ideas, feedback or bugs to report on Gong, please email me. I’d love to hear from you!

Gong has finally arrived ! 🎉🎉
It’s time to stop using multiple messaging and calendar apps to organize your life.

You can synchronize your calendars, create events, invite your friends to join, and Gong will find the best time for everyone to attend.

Chatting in Gong means you can discuss the event with everyone involved in one place. If plans change, everyone will now get notified.

It’s free, it’s beautiful, customisable, and you’ll use it everyday.

Download Gong today on the App Store !

The idea.

Back in end of 2015, I was in a cool restaurant at rue Montorgueil in Paris for lunch with an investor. He just told me « got a few thoughts to discuss, maybe some interesting topics… ». Which was kind of ironic, usually it’s entrepreneur presenting ideas to investors not the opposite.

We started around the subject about family time management and the main organisation issues of managing the family activities on a daily basis. For example, his son should be at his Judo course at 6pm after his last meeting at 4pm & his daughter has swimming lessons at 5.
Could we organise some common events with his friends & family in order to organise carpooling for example or just gather all these events in a central view somewhere ?

Back at the office I presented the problem to my business partner Jeff and we started to develop the concept.
After a few days thinking about it, we identified existing services within the family management sector, such as Shuddle (RIP.) in SF, and started a review of the market’s initial needs.
Family activity management is the « de facto » big issue to solve. However we weren’t convinced about the long-term usage of this kind of product, as it is a niche user market. 2nd point, we’re not parents yet.

WhatsApp & Messenger are hell.

Some weeks later, I was organising an aperitif with 3 friends and as usual, it was a huge mess. We started to speak on WhatsApp about where & when in our « bros channel », which drifted quickly to jokes & GIFs every 3 lines. In less than 10 min the conversation was off topic.

On the day of the event we returned to the original subject (the aperitif !), and some of us had completely forgotten the thing, others had forgotten where it was happening, & one of us wasn’t using WhatsApp anymore but was continuing the conversation in Facebook Messenger, demonstrating the massive possibility of conversation fracture across multiple apps & services !

Another example is where we stated a « holiday plan meeting » for a Sunday evening. Some missed the event organised on Messenger and had to join us quickly using Uber ($$) to come book their plane tickets with us.

We came back the day after to the office with a need. An app that could help us manage app-less daily life events that are too small to go in Facebook Events & aren’t easy to manage through a classic iCal / Google Calendar.

That was also the same solution to my investor issue, as he could use such a tool to plan all his activities with his friends & family without having to call everybody or pollute his professional agenda.

The main idea behind Gong was now on the paper.

Gong will be soon ready on iOS, register now on our website to be informed when we’ll release it !