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> “FreeBusy”, a web app that allows people to find a time that’s open on my calendar and suggest or schedule a meeting time quickly without email back-and-forths.

Heard of Calendly?

> “Gestural”, a JavaScript library for making multi-touch gesture recognition easy on the web.

Heard of Hammer.js?

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Yep, and yep. I've looked at Calendly, but there's a certain kind of joy to making your own, perfectly-fit solution to simple problems. I've also looked at Hammer.js and actually really like what they've done with the project. Again, I wanted something that better integrated with other libraries I've written.

Just because a project exists doesn’t mean you can’t have your own take on it. A lot of projects basically do the same. Just look at all the ride sharing apps.

Yes. That's pretty obvious, thanks.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20572020

What happened after Basecamp got big or simpler CRMs than Salesforce became a thing? Many many overlapping products came out. Nothing wrong with that.

Yes. I know. I just didn't know whether or not the OP had heard of these things. From their comment it seemed as though they just wanted to solve the problem that Calendly solves for themselves. If I were jotting down side project ideas, I would have written "I'd like to make something like Calendly, but with x, y, and z changes."

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