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Cake day: December 6th, 2024

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  • Took me a while to get back to this. I got a bit sick over the weekend. Anyway, the opensource scheduling software is not too great. I am a little surprised by it as there are a few commercial options or opensource options that lock certain features behind a paywall even when selfhosting, like cal.com.

    Cal.com is the only software that provides the feature set I need, but they charge about as much per user as Zoom does and it pisses me off that it’s so expensive to have a shared calendar so my clients will simply book a time and date and have round robin logic applied to who the client gets assigned to.

    Because of this, I am slowly working on building my own scheduling system that I will selfhost. I am mostly vibecoding it as I am too busy running a small company to dedicate time to coding it properly, but that is some tech I can easily test for functionality and fix down the line when there is more time or money.

    simplybook.me is another service I came across, but they charge you based on how many features you enable, and you basically can’t use their system for scheduling without adding on a bunch of features. Once your trial ends, you can’t turn off the features and go back to the free version without signing up for a pro account or whatever they call it.