• 16 Posts
  • 568 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: December 6th, 2024

help-circle





  • It is allowing me to do things that I could not do on my own due to time constraints. It also allows me to do stuff that I could not afford to do (generate my company logo and variations of the mascot for social media posts.)

    I know a lot of people think I am rich, but I live in a third world country and hardly have any extra to save, so I truly can’t afford to pay a graphic designer to do that work. I actually did once, on upwork, but the vector work she did was terrible and she couldn’t figure out how to remove these thick black lines. ChatGPT was able to fix it though.


  • 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.