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NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly

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Re: NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly

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First time I've seen something like this discussed so honestly. I suspect it won't be the last time. Hopefully to the benefit of consumers.

I feel like this is a great approach for bootstrapped and/or solo founders. Break the idea that some of these markets are huge defensible spaces requiring bootstrapped funding and higher teams.

The ironic thing is I know there's been other 100% bootstrapped 'calendly-like' software made in this space (over 10 years ago no less).

Re: NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly

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What about a website caldendar platform where you only specify which day you will work and can be potentially contacted or not (so we have Not Working, Working Without Meetings, Working With Meetings on some hours) for a sync call ? This way it's not about booking a meeting but letting others know you're available. Does this exist ?

Re: NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly

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Cool, I've had "add a personal calendar appointment scheduler feature" on my backlog for months, and for some reason I just didn't want to do Calendly. Maybe it's because I'm pretty averse to overgrown SaaS?

I like their messaging and I'm more inclined to use a tool ran by a team/company like these guys.

Consider me a customer... whenever I clean up the backlog

Re: NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly

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post #12

What about a website caldendar platform where you only specify which day you will work and can be potentially contacted or not (so we have Not Working, Working Without Meetings, Working With Meetings on some hours) for a sync call ? This way it's not about booking a meeting but letting others know you're available. Does this exist ?

Isn't available in most meeting scheduling platform? I guess you're mentioning booking a meeting/call based on availability on the attendee.

Re: NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly

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This is an interesting approach, but they’re awfully proud of themselves for charging 50% of what calendly charges. The biggest cost of a SaaS like this is the cost of sales…so if they can convince enough people with this tactic, it’ll work. But RabdomBugCo is paying Calendly $20k/mo to have an expensive account rep team answer their questions and $1k/mo for the technology.

$21k/mo is too pricy for a meeting scheduling platform.

Re: NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly

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This is an interesting approach, but they’re awfully proud of themselves for charging 50% of what calendly charges. The biggest cost of a SaaS like this is the cost of sales…so if they can convince enough people with this tactic, it’ll work. But RabdomBugCo is paying Calendly $20k/mo to have an expensive account rep team answer their questions and $1k/mo for the technology.

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