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Re: Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

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This is my first product release. The whole thing took about a week to design, develop, and release. I'd love some feedback.

Can I restrict available times? For instance, I only like to schedule meetings late in the day or first thing in the morning.

Just because I have availability doesn't mean I am available...

Re: Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

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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. 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 some…

> The real utility comes when people can actually schedule something on your calendar without your help.

Sounds like a nightmare.

Re: Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

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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 some…

> The real utility comes when people can actually schedule something on your calendar without your help. Sounds like a nightmare.

No kidding. Besides that, the people scheduling the appointment will probably want to schedule it from their calendar, not some third party app. The most valuable use case is determining when someone is available, not creating the appointment.

Re: Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

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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?

Yes, you can specify which hours you are available.

Also, we are working on a duty calendar feature where you can create appointment slots.

Re: Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

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post #21

This is my first product release. The whole thing took about a week to design, develop, and release. I'd love some feedback.

Can I restrict available times? For instance, I only like to schedule meetings late in the day or first thing in the morning. Just because I have availability doesn't mean I am available...

Yes, absolutely.

Re: Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

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Can I restrict available times? For instance, I only like to schedule meetings late in the day or first thing in the morning. Just because I have availability doesn't mean I am available...

Yes, absolutely.

Awesome, thanks! As I get close to signing up, $10/mo still feels high. $5/month does not.

Re: Show HN: Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

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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.

Yes but we found that the calendar owner want's to restrict the length of appointment, rather than let the contact select an arbitrary length.
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