[dewski]

I’ve been working on Don’t Double Book Me (https://dontdoublebookme.com) the past few weeks out of frustration with keeping my personal and work Google Calendars in sync.

Previously used Reclaim but found $10 a month to keep 2 calendars in sync was excessive and the software was increasingly becoming more team oriented, no longer for individuals. Felt like I was paying for a product and also the product. I just needed to keep 2 calendars in sync, not smart meetings, analytics, integrations, etc. ideally I set it up and forget about it.

I really needed a way to sync my calendars privately, without all the extras. Now that Dropbox has purchased Reclaim, it's even more important I feel like my calendars are not spied on. I knew I could provide a similar service.

Here’s what makes me excited about it as a user:

Affordable: Just $20/year with a 7-day free trial. Cancel at any time for a pro-rated refund.

Privacy First: No need to store events on a servers enabling unlimited calendar syncs.

Working Hours: Adaptive feature that adjusts if an event falls outside your specified working hours.

Round Event Times: Opt to round event start and end times to the nearest 15 or 30 minutes for cleaner scheduling.

Invitations: Block time between calendars when you receive a meeting invitation that you haven't responded to yet. Decline it? The time block on your other calendar is removed.

My plan is to keep it small and focused, while also listening to user feedback for how you'd like to manage your personal and work calendars more efficiently.

Thanks for checking out my new project.

[asdf6969]

I don’t have a personal calendar and my work calendar ends at 5. I think your market is a lot smaller than you think. The kind of people who ask friends to book time on their calendar are considered freaks anywhere outside of tech hubs

[dewski]

Don't Double Book Me isn't some crazy startup idea that needs funding, I am not shooting for the moon with this. Feature development was basically done in a few weekends and I like that it solves a single problem well. There is definitely a market for people who need a tool like this. Look at Reclaim, Calendly, Clockwise, CalendarBridge, OneCal, etc, which have successfully tapped into this market but are focused on selling to teams.

I designed it for individuals balancing personal and professional commitments. I work somewhere with a heavy meeting culture, nothing I can really do about that. I found myself double booked often with personal commitments I had. Consider a scenario where you need to attend your child’s school play, but you forgot to also block off time on your work calendar, now your colleagues think you’re free and invite you to something. You've been double booked.

Events outside your working hours aren’t synced, protecting your personal time and privacy. The default setting is to create events on a destination calendar with the summary explicitly being "Busy" without any other information, but you can change it so it mirrors the event details should you choose.

[vb234]

I think if you have young kids and in the 40s where the need for healthcare appointments go up there might be a demand for this product.

[mrcurious56]

For someone that has two personal emails and 1 work email, which means three calendars. I can definitely see the value in this.

Going to give it a try!

[jen20]

This is a nice idea, but assumes both your employer and your personal account use Google Calendar. If that assumption goes away I might be interested in this.

What guarantees does this make about access to data and how does it make them?