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Notes on scheduling, focus, and building Tymeslot

Product thinking, engineering write-ups, and the occasional opinion — straight from the team.

Read Building an open-source Calendly alternative in Phoenix LiveView
Building an open-source Calendly alternative in Phoenix LiveView
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Building an open-source Calendly alternative in Phoenix LiveView

A booking page looks like a form over a calendar. The hard part is that every calendar system disagrees about which events actually make you busy, and once we got that answer in two places, the two places disagreed too.

Luka Breitig Luka Breitig 8 July 2026 · 11 min read
Read The Tymeslot WordPress plugin
The Tymeslot WordPress plugin
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The Tymeslot WordPress plugin

Your Tymeslot booking page now drops into WordPress with a block, a shortcode, or a floating button — no HTML to paste, and no drift from your dashboard.

Luka Breitig Luka Breitig 24 June 2026 · 3 min read
Read What's new in Tymeslot 1.2
What's new in Tymeslot 1.2
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What's new in Tymeslot 1.2

Tymeslot 1.2 adds guest attendees with email RSVPs, private and direct booking links, and rich previews when you share a link.

Luka Breitig Luka Breitig 19 June 2026 · 4 min read
Read What's new in Tymeslot 1.1
What's new in Tymeslot 1.1
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What's new in Tymeslot 1.1

Tymeslot 1.1 adds custom booking questions, payment at the moment of booking, automatic Zoom meetings, and Slack notifications.

Luka Breitig Luka Breitig 16 June 2026 · 4 min read
Read Celebrating Tymeslot 1.0
Celebrating Tymeslot 1.0
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Celebrating Tymeslot 1.0

Four months after the first release, Tymeslot 1.0 does the whole scheduling job: booking pages, two-way calendar sync, video links, embedding, and five languages.

Luka Breitig Luka Breitig 8 May 2026 · 3 min read
Read Why I built Tymeslot
Why I built Tymeslot
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Why I built Tymeslot

I put out the first version of Tymeslot two days ago. I built it because the scheduling tools I tried were either dated or too heavy to run myself.

Luka Breitig Luka Breitig 4 January 2026 · 3 min read