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Email to Calendar Event Extractor

Turn dates buried in emails into calendar events with one click.

Beginner10h1–2 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Email to Calendar Event Extractor for students and parents drowning in school emails in ~10h with 1–2 people. Stack: LLM + Calendar API + Next.js.

Why it wins: Small build that solves a universal annoyance.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Important dates hide inside long emails and get missed.
02 · Solution
Scan pasted or forwarded emails for events, deadlines and locations, show them as cards and export to the calendar.
03 · Build
  1. 1Parse email text
  2. 2Extract events as JSON
  3. 3Render cards
  4. 4Create calendar events
04 · Demo
Forward a long school newsletter and import its five dates.

MVP checklist

  • Date extraction
  • Event cards
  • One-click calendar add
  • Duplicate detection

Tech stack

TechRole
LLMLanguage model
Calendar APICalendar data
Next.jsFrontend + API routes

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