CalendaVibe: free scheduling that plugs into the calendar you already use

Every small team I work with ends up paying for a scheduling tool long before scheduling is the thing that makes them money. Consultants, clinics, coaches, sales teams: they all need the same thing first. A link someone can open, pick a free slot and be done.

That's the job CalendaVibe does.

#What it does

• Booking links connected to Google Calendar and Outlook, so availability is always the real one.
• Google Meet links created for every booking, without copying and pasting anything.
• Stripe payments, so paid sessions are charged at booking time.
• Teams, so a booking can land on whoever is free instead of on one overloaded calendar.

And it's free to get started. You shouldn't need a budget line to stop sending "does Tuesday at 4 work?" emails.

#Why build another scheduling tool

Because the useful part is small and well understood, and the rest is pricing. Most tools put the features a small business needs on day one (payments, a second team member) behind a paid tier. I wanted the opposite: the basics free, done properly.

#How it's built

React on the front end, Node.js and PostgreSQL behind it. Calendar integrations are the hard part of a product like this: time zones, recurring events, permissions and providers that each model availability their own way. That's where most of the engineering went.

#Try it

If you take bookings, try it with a real link this week, and tell me what's missing. I read every message.