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Alec Brunelle

I'm working on a self-hosted Calendly alternative written in Rails :)

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Ben Halpern

That is really cool!

So by self-hosted I imagine it'll be open source? I am very interested, want to share more info?

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Alec Brunelle

Ya!

The idea is to have a calendar/auth agnostic solution to sharing a public calendar.

  1. Deploy the app (e.g. Heroku)
  2. Put in a CalDAV URL so the app knows when you are "busy"
  3. Share your public calendar link
  4. When a meeting is scheduled, an email is sent to both you and the participant with an .ics file attached

I've been stuck writing JavaScript for the past few years so this project is getting me back into Rails (which is a good thing) πŸ˜†