“switched from calendly cuz of gdpr compliance issues, it's cheaper to build your own now with AI coding agents. what features did you end up vibecoding?”
“For those using Calendly, TidyCal or similar tools with clients: have branding, payment fees, calendar-sync issues or booking reliability ever been bad enough to make you switch?”
“The main ones you hear about are Calendly on the subscription / commercial side, and then 'Cal.com' as the alternative to Calendly. However, the self-hosted version of 'Cal.com' explicitly states in the README, "Use at your own risk.”
“A student casually practicing appointment scheduling with Calendly and Google Calendar, mid training. Not a big fancy video, just someone putting in the work.”
“Email says I need to schedule within two business days but I’ve been checking the link every few hours and no slots have opened. I’ve submitted a question through the candidate portal but no response.”
“Standard calendar tools like Calendly don't work for us because we need custom intake questionnaires, deposit payments upfront, and multi staff assignment rules.”
“I had a Google Ads rep contact me via a customer calendly link scheduling a meeting AND ping me in Google Chat trying to get a hold of me today. That is NOT ok to interfere like that.”
“As a warning for others, it was a DM from a journalist account on X which sent me a calendly link to schedule an interview. The original url domain was indeed http://calendly.com but it redirected to a different domain that looked like a custom scheduling domain for the”
“A verified account claiming to be a Bloomberg journalist sent me a Calendly link that eventually led to an X OAuth app with write access. I admittedly should have been more careful, but I was too excited about a Bloomberg interview😅”
“No shows cost you zero dollars, because you have no business, and Booksly, Calendly, Cal.com, and every other booking app already has built in features to prevent this.”
“Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/calendly-throws-its-hat-into-meeting-note-taker-circus/ via @techcrunch #tech #digital #privacy #crypto #ai”
“I still remember when the now-old Calendly logo came out; Twitter thought it was a joke, like, for a while... Glad they finally got the @Smith_Diction glow-up they deserved.”
“Searched for "Calendly" @Calendly clicked on sponsored result from Cal instead @calcom that says "Calendly" (nothing else) in the headline. Is it just me, or did they not used to allow this stuff?”