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FYI, Cal[1] is an Open Source[2] with a SaaS generous offering whose free version is adequate for most use case. No affiliation but a happy customer since its early days. It was, once, not able to compare with Calendly but has come a long way in a good way. 1. https://cal.com 2. https://github.com/calcom/cal.com
This seems very much aimed at teams on paid tiers at competitors (which admittedly makes sense). 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…
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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.
hey @ushakov, can you send me an email to peer@cal.com, can i look into your 2FA issue?
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People who won't pay 4 dollars per month will never ever pay 1 dollar per month or even 50 cents per month. They will however argue for weeks online about how it's too expensive.
I wouldn't pay 4 dollars, but I would happily pay 1, which I consider a fair price.
Great to see the integrations (Stripe, Zoom, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Slack, Daily.co, and Microsoft Teams) [0]. In general, is there an "open" calendar-sync protocol? Would that be CalDAV (often paired with IMAP mail accounts in my experience)? (But then, would that typically require giving email credentials to the to-be-synced endpoint?) One thing that sort of surprises me is that the appointment-scheduling ap…
I think that's the key. I have no idea how many people use fastmail or hey.com. And what percentage of those users need neetoCal type service. Now factor in what percentage of those user would come to neetoCal even if they need the service. If we do build CalDAV which is not a trivial task then we might put it in the "pro" plan. Now even lesser number of those folks would actually sign up.
Google Calendar is the first choice because it has the largest number of users.
Didn't the Basecamp folks (DHH, et al) start out this way too? I commend these folks, and for their transparency on this topic! If they can grow at the pace they wish, then good on them. Kudos and best of luck!
Doesn't DHH have a history of chud opinions? Why are you commending him?
Great to see the integrations (Stripe, Zoom, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Slack, Daily.co, and Microsoft Teams) [0]. In general, is there an "open" calendar-sync protocol? Would that be CalDAV (often paired with IMAP mail accounts in my experience)? (But then, would that typically require giving email credentials to the to-be-synced endpoint?) One thing that sort of surprises me is that the appointment-scheduling ap…
> Maybe just literally not enough people would use it I think that's the key. I have no idea how many people use fastmail or hey.com. And what percentage of those users need neetoCal type service. Now factor in what percentage of those user would come to neetoCal even if they need the service. If we do build CalDAV which is not a trivial task then we might put it in the "pro" plan. Now even lesser number of those fol…
Its incredibly hard to build a "product" and also run a services business. Ultimately the services business will take priority, simply because each deal represents significant $$. I predict this product will become a sideshow, generate $50-100k/yr over a few years and be sold off, of course unless you start to focus on the product and get rid of the consulting gigs. If you do turn into a product business you will qui…
All good points. Here is my take. Churn is so high because the cost is high. Cost is high because they spend money on marketing and sales. They need to spend that money to have growth because product is the only thing we are doing. You could be right that with consulting on the side neetoCal might not be able to grow. It's also possible that because of consulting neetoCal would be able to grow. We are not going to sp…
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.
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.