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What is 10x better than Calendly?

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What Calendly is currently lacking?

I've a project from which I integrated "two ways" calendar event management with Google Calendar, I'm about to make it more general since I don't have enough client in the specific niche it is. Looking for the features to add. The 10x better I have in mind is: Chat to handle events (+ GCal events as well). Feedback?

Merry Xmas

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Would be nice if there was a product that also worked with Fastmail Calendars: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/categories/1500000036101-...

Every time I try to use Calendly, it fails because I've disabled Google Calendar from my Google Account. I'm trying to slowly switch to Fastmail instead.

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Would be nice if there was a product that also worked with Fastmail Calendars: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/categories/1500000036101-... Every time I try to use Calendly, it fails because I've disabled Google Calendar from my Google Account. I'm trying to slowly switch to Fastmail instead.

Savvycal integrates with Fastmail.

https://savvycal.com/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-calendar-updates/

Re: What is 10x better than Calendly?

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The real question is "what is calendly lacking for {user group}".

For me, as a casual user, I would love the calendly type experience to be integrated with the video call. So you send a link, arrange the time, and then the same link takes me onto that call (no separate teams/zoom logging in etc.)

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Would be nice if there was a product that also worked with Fastmail Calendars: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/categories/1500000036101-... Every time I try to use Calendly, it fails because I've disabled Google Calendar from my Google Account. I'm trying to slowly switch to Fastmail instead.

And generic CalDAV support would be even better.

Cal.com supports it (in beta): https://cal.com/apps/caldav-calendar

But it is hit or miss, e.g. it doesn't work with my Purelymail account.

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Would be nice if there was a product that also worked with Fastmail Calendars: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/categories/1500000036101-... Every time I try to use Calendly, it fails because I've disabled Google Calendar from my Google Account. I'm trying to slowly switch to Fastmail instead.

I use Fantastical as a calendar app and it has Openings feature https://flexibits.com/fantastical/scheduling (requires subscription)

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You should look to niche down to build a Calendly that is 10x better specific group of users - it is going to be hard to make scheduling 10x better for a general audience.

Ex: I've been pretty happy with https://zcal.co which seems to target people who are looking for more personalization of invite links (I've mostly been using it because it is cheaper than other options for all the functionality I care about).

Re: What is 10x better than Calendly?

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The real question is "what is calendly lacking for {user group}". For me, as a casual user, I would love the calendly type experience to be integrated with the video call. So you send a link, arrange the time, and then the same link takes me onto that call (no separate teams/zoom logging in etc.)

cal.com does exactly this

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post #8

You should look to niche down to build a Calendly that is 10x better specific group of users - it is going to be hard to make scheduling 10x better for a general audience. Ex: I've been pretty happy with https://zcal.co which seems to target people who are looking for more personalization of invite links (I've mostly been using it because it is cheaper than other options for all the functionality I care about).

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