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This 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."
Companies aren't looking for hypergrowth until they are. And that's when prices rise.
I think it's venerable to address the elephant in the room but then, in a room full of VC-funded startups, neeto _is_ the elephant in that it's intentionally straying from the public-company-or-bust path laid out in front of most tech startups.
As an individual user, I find their feature set (https://www.neeto.com/neetocal/features) a bit underwhelming - they present a number of features as things that really any scheduler should have:
- different meeting durations
- time zones
- custom availability
- cancellation/rescheduling
- buffer time
- integrations with Zoom/Google/etc (but not CalDAV, somehow)
- email notifications, OTP and SSL (what is this, 2013?)
Personally, I use cal.com, which has all of that, plus is open source and self-hostable. And it interfaces with CalDAV so I'm not locked into Google Calendar.
NeetoCal is $4/user/month for pro Calendly is $8/user/month for essentials tier and $12/month for professional tier For reference
neetoCal is $2/user/month if billed annually.
Amazed to see the price with the features it offers!
It might be worth mentioning that Fantastical now also has scheduling. It’s my preference because it handles a pending state until I approve.
We tried to raise this with Calendly but they refused the request. Their answer: "Thank you for reaching out to Calendly! We've found that manual confirmation of each appointment only increases the steps it takes to schedule. Not having to confirm/deny/reschedule a booking eliminates the email ping pong of scheduling!"
Which totally misses the point. My calendar is not always perfect, sometimes I miss travel times, sometimes I forgot to enter things. I want to confirm my meetings.
Started 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.
These types of subscribe overlays, especially for a company blog with a product that aims to compete on features/pricing, are really unnecessary and annoying.
Google 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.