vs AI assistants
An assistant that acts, not just answers
Ask a general chatbot to plan dinner and you get a nicely written suggestion, which you then carry back to the group, run the vote on, book, and chase payments for yourself. Fikca lives where the group talks and does those steps itself.
| Feature | Fikca | General AI chatbots |
|---|---|---|
| Drafts plans and suggests ideas | ||
| Lives inside your Telegram group chat | ||
| Opens the date poll and closes it at a deadline | ||
| Reads the group's real availability from Google Calendar | ||
| Follows up on its own: nudges, digest, day-before reminders | ||
| Splits the bill and renders a PayNow QR | ||
| Editable long-term memory about how you plan | varies | |
| Answers questions about anything at all |
Where it lives matters. A plan happens in the group chat, not in a private chatbot tab. Fikca sees the "dinner friday?" message where it's said and answers with a poll everyone can tap.
Suggestions become actions. The poll closes itself, the calendar invite sends itself, the QR renders itself. Nothing needs to be copied back to the group.
Memory you can see. Fikca keeps a small, editable set of facts, like where you are based and when you are usually free, and the Memory page shows every one of them.
Not a general oracle. Fikca won't write your essay. It does one job, group plans end to end, and stays quiet otherwise.
vs booking tools
Calendly-style booking, minus the corporate
Dedicated schedulers are excellent at one thing: a stranger picking a slot on your work calendar. Fikca ships that same booking page, and treats it as one step of a plan, not the whole product.
| Feature | Fikca | Dedicated booking tools |
|---|---|---|
| Personal booking page with event types | ||
| Guests book without an account | ||
| Slots that respect your Google Calendar | ||
| Approve or decline from a Telegram DM | ||
| Date polls that run inside the group chat | ||
| Tracks who owes what after the plan | ||
| Weekly digest and keep-in-touch nudges | ||
| Team scheduling, round-robins and CRM hooks |
The booking page is included. Every Fikca user gets /book/your-name with event types, durations, daily caps and notice periods: the familiar flow, no extra subscription.
The plan continues after the booking. A booking tool stops at the confirmation email. Fikca reminds everyone the day before, and settles the bill after.
Built for friends, not pipelines. If you need round-robin routing across a sales team, use a corporate scheduler. If you need the climbing crew to pick a Saturday, that gap is exactly what Fikca is for.
vs the patchwork
One thread instead of four apps
Most groups end up with a poll link, a split-tracking app, a shared calendar and a reminders app, each needing everyone to sign up. Fikca folds those jobs into the chat the group already has.
Date-poll links. Fikca's polls live in the chat with a deadline, a midpoint nudge for stragglers and automatic closing, so there's no link for half the group to ignore.
Split-tracking apps. Shares are tracked per plan and per person, and paying up is a PayNow QR scan. Nobody installs anything or makes an account.
Shared calendars. Confirmed plans write into everyone's own Google Calendar instead of a separate calendar nobody checks.
Reminder apps. "Remind me to book the court on friday" said to the bot is the whole setup, with snooze buttons when it fires.
Decide with your next plan
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