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Building a Calendly alternative on the side: 14 features in one day with Claude

DEV Community·Ao oneslate·6 months ago
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Why I'm building OneSlate

Calendly is great if you're a freelancer with one calendar.

It breaks if you're an executive with shared calendars from your

team — which is exactly my situation. I run a small company and

have shared calendars from ~10 colleagues. When I create a Calendly

link, every "shared" event gets treated as my own busy time.

The result: my Calendly booking page often shows zero available

slots. People who try to schedule with me give up. I've had to

manually email back-and-forth more times than I can count.

OneSlate solves this with a simple but specific filter: only

calendars where calendar_kind is primary or owned count

toward your busy time. Shared calendars are visible to you in

the dashboard, but they don't pollute your booking page's

availability.

That single insight is the core differentiator.…

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