Open Source Calendly Alternative
meetsy.xyz
meetsy.xyz
At risk of being that rsync commenter, I do think paying $12/month (as Calendly and Cal charge) for multiple meeting types is a bit much. I'm mostly ok with the free tier, though.
Would love to update it straightaway
Can I ask if you're trying to monetize this service anywhere? If not, would you mind making it a bit more clear how to run it on the Github page (e.g. with a compose.yml)?
No worries, i'll take this into account tonight as well.
I will also update with a screenshot, do you think a screenshot of the invitee's page where they can accept the invite would be good enough? I actually have a video I made (not professionally, just a screen recording) to show google for the OAuth spec but I have to make it better.
> Can I ask if you're trying to monetize this service anywhere? If not, would you mind making it a bit more clear how to run it on the Github page (e.g. with a compose.yml)?
At the moment I'm not trying to monetize it as it is just for fun side project, but if it gain a lot of traction probably I will just to cover the server cost. Either way it will always be open source and you can self host. compose.yml exist in the api/ folder (this is how i deploy it), front end was deployed with vercel so don't need any of that.
I really wanted to like Cal.com (Calendso) and support the founders (awesome people). Unfortunately, after trying few times, I gave up. There are always some thing or the other that does not work as advertised.
We might still get back to Cal.com and host an instance ourselves for the team and try it again. However, I'm staying with Calendly for quite a while.
Any new calendar app, open source or otherwise, need to meet somewhere very stable enough to compete with the existing ones that has solved most known problems with scheduling.
Nice to see new alternatives in this space. It would have been nicer to see a comparison with Calcom and some self-hosting guidelines.
Why is this better than framadate? https://framadate.org/
The cool thing, this could likely be extended with other calendar systems as it is OSS. I assume the author just scratched their own itch first.
However I see the point where people might not have google account (or other services)
1. Screenshots of product
2. Vidcast of set up experience
3. Vidcast of user experience to book a meeting on my meetsy
4. Demo instance (book a slot with Fakeman Bogus)
Hooking up Google Account without all this is not going to happen because I then have to go and de-authorize you after if I don't like it. At that point, I'm not going to do it.
while opening the page.
For example, I could take this. Host it on heroku. And charge cheaper price than calendly.
Not aiming to make millions a year. Maybe 1000 a month is good.
"A VPS costs you $5. My service is $2. True you can host it with your other applications on the VPS you already own. Set up a reverse proxy and update it every now and then - or sign up and stop worrying. Go for a walk. Have a beer. Cheers!"
It often is because your time is much more valuable.
Furthermore you could self-host, if you don’t want to trust Calendly. calendars are somewhat problematic privacy wise. Especially considering if this gets extended with support for other calendar systems than Google.
Your wording sounds like there should be only one tool for any given problem.
From their privacy policy:
> We may disclose information to current or future affiliates or subsidiaries for research, marketing, and other purposes consistent with this Privacy Notice.
When you have an open source project, you always know what we do with your data, which is very important nowadays. Also apart from that we have small feature that aim to improve user experience when creating or accepting invite. In this case we show their own events in calendar so they have an overview of what are they doing during the week.
It’s a fun project, also I open sourced the infrastructure part so you can self host too.
I think others has add more good points too