That seems really interesting, however a working demo would be great, especially because you are asking the credit card before anything else (not saying it's bad, just that I'm not comfortable with giving my payment information after one screenshot only)
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#12This is my first product release. The whole thing took about a week to design, develop, and release. I'd love some feedback.
$10 a month seems a little steep. I don't pay that much for a VPS. Did you beta test this?
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#13I had this idea in my mind as well. Could you support a feature that hides all information on the calendar except times? I don't want my appointment makers to know my life story.
This is not clear from the marketing materials, but it does do this currently. That is something I should change. You can see an example here: https://www.bespeak.io/book/demo
yeah, I see it now.
is there some way to designate blocks of time as open?
if I can only take appointments between 10am and 1pm, is there some way to indicate that with this system?
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#14The confirmation email went to Junk w/ outlook.
Just letting you know.
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#15Keep getting 500 after a few tries.
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#16No freaking way this is worth $10/mo, especially when creating your own by embedding your Google Calendar in a web page (or in the case of my example, a Google Site page) and sharing the link is free.
https://sites.google.com/site/elliottally/
I've included a link to that in my email signature for the last couple of years to solve specifically this problem and it works great. It's not particularly beautiful, but it solved the problem. There are a plethora of other apps providing the same service (here's one: http://www.scheduleonce.com/pricing), so you're going to have to differentiate yourself somehow.
You really need a free tier.
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#17Passive income hack...rising
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#18No freaking way this is worth $10/mo, especially when creating your own by embedding your Google Calendar in a web page (or in the case of my example, a Google Site page) and sharing the link is free. https://sites.google.com/site/elliottally/ I've included a link to that in my email signature for the last couple of years to solve specifically this problem and it works great. It's not particularly beautiful, but it s…
No freaking way this is worth $10/mo, especially when creating your own by embedding your Google Calendar in a web page (or in the case of my example, a Google Site page) and sharing the link is free.
The link you provided doesn't accomplish the same thing as their product.
Your link is just a read-only view of your calendar (unless I've missed something). The real utility comes when people can actually schedule something on your calendar without your help.
I've been wishing for exactly this recently, and am excited to try the app.
Also, since I'd use this for work (saving me real time) on a company credit card, $10/month is without question a completely negligible amount.
In summary: I disagree with everything you've said. :)
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#19This is my first product release. The whole thing took about a week to design, develop, and release. I'd love some feedback.
$10 a month seems a little steep. I don't pay that much for a VPS. Did you beta test this?
Another data point: A single Google Apps mailbox costs $50/year - ~$4.20/mo.
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#20I had this idea in my mind as well. Could you support a feature that hides all information on the calendar except times? I don't want my appointment makers to know my life story.
This is not clear from the marketing materials, but it does do this currently. That is something I should change. You can see an example here: https://www.bespeak.io/book/demo
As a Google Calendar user, I'm used to being able to drag down on a time period to book an event, and then enter event details. I can't do that on your demo.