Tried few apps from this list and I'm surprised to find that at least 3 of those don't support phone only reservations... Some kind of businesses rely on phone mostly, email is almost not used ... and entering it is major inconvenience
NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly
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#32What 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 ?
You could use cal.com (one of the competitors mentioned in the post). The use case you described would fit into their free tier.
The platform is made for booking but you can use it to show your availability, by allowing people to request meetings and then not accepting any of the requests.
Re: NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly
#33This is a masterclass in organic go-to-market.
Straightforward and clear-eyed writing, and subtle, almost cynical positioning perfectly suited for the HN crowd. That is: "This is easy stuff to build. Price is the main differentiator in this category."
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#34I use TidyCal. It costs 29 one time. More than fair.
4 dollars per month seems still pretty excessive for the very low resource intensive work of such an app.
In relation to the prices of Office365/Google Workspace, I don't think this should cost more than 1 euro/dollar per user per month.
Even if you compare it to much more resources intensive app like Disney Plus, which costs 8 euros per month, how can this cost 4?
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#35I have such a small but annoying pet peeve about Calendly. It's That if I'm trying to copy my meeting scheduler link and go to just type c ... a... l ... into my browser, my calendars will always come up first, so I have to go all the way to c ... a ... l ... e ... n ... d ... l ... before the link.
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#36Love the logic and intent but then I see people why people are asking about these subjects on ProductHunt:
There's two pricing plans "free and all the features" and 4.99/"user"/month if you want to remove their logo.
That makes it read as self-congratulatory - there isn't a plan for it to be a sustainable investment, and it's not clear it's that cheap either.
Either pole of "take $10M in funding for a SaaS" and "eh we'll be free 99% and figure literally everything else, from marketing to support to sales, on on the fly" is an extreme.
To users, the funding one sounds better: at least that maximizes quality, support, and engagement with the company until right-sizing occurs. 0 reason for users to care that it'll feel like "losing" to the founders or that VCs will be disappointed.
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#38What 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 ?
You could use cal.com (one of the competitors mentioned in the post). The use case you described would fit into their free tier. The platform is made for booking but you can use it to show your availability, by allowing people to request meetings and then not accepting any of the requests.
It's also free and open source, so you can host it yourself, if you want that.
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#39Google Calendar recently improved appointment scheduling (including through a public page): https://workspace.google.com/resources/appointment-schedulin... Rough reminder for Calendly (and similar) that it's a feature, not a company.
Didn’t knew they offered this!
We’re using cal dot com currently, but the amount of bugs is just insufferable for a basic tool like that. I cannot login into my account since 3 weeks now, because their 2FA is broken.
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#40Started reading then got presented with a huge popup overlay / ad telling me to subscribe to their blog. Closed the site. I did like what I started reading about not taking VC funding though - that is very refreshing.