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Notes on scheduling, focus, and building Tymeslot

Product thinking, engineering write-ups and the occasional opinion from the people building Tymeslot.

Read Folio and Paper: two new booking page themes
Folio and Paper: two new booking page themes
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Folio and Paper: two new booking page themes

Tymeslot has two new booking page themes. Folio introduces you before anyone picks a time; Paper is one plain card in your colours that gets out of the way.

Luka Breitig 2 November 2026 · 4 min read
Read What's new in Tymeslot 1.12 to 1.15: booking approval, Microsoft Exchange, and your own booking page welcome
What's new in Tymeslot 1.12 to 1.15: booking approval, Microsoft Exchange, and your own booking page welcome
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What's new in Tymeslot 1.12 to 1.15: booking approval, Microsoft Exchange, and your own booking page welcome

Tymeslot 1.12 to 1.15 lets you approve bookings before they confirm, connects on-premises Microsoft Exchange calendars, and lets you write your own booking page welcome, with a long run of reliability and calendar sync fixes alongside.

Luka Breitig 17 September 2026 · 7 min read
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 make you busy, and once my code answered that question in two places, the two answers disagreed too.

Luka Breitig 8 July 2026 · 13 min read
Read The Tymeslot WordPress plugin
The Tymeslot WordPress plugin
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The Tymeslot WordPress plugin

Your Tymeslot booking page now goes into WordPress as a block, a shortcode or a floating button, using the same embed code your dashboard generates.

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 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 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 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 4 January 2026 · 3 min read