Celebrating Tymeslot 1.0

Four months ago we put out the first release of Tymeslot. Today we are calling it 1.0: the point where it does the whole scheduling job, start to finish. Here is what that means in practice.

The booking page

Tymeslot ships with two themes for your public page, Quill and Rhythm. You can offer as many meeting types as you need, each with its own length, description, and calendar. Whoever books sees the times in their own timezone, and Tymeslot handles the conversion.

Underneath sits the logic that decides which slots to show: weekly working hours, overrides for the days that break the pattern, and breaks inside the day. Once someone has booked, they can reschedule or cancel without going through you.

Weekly hours, overrides and breaks: the rules behind which slots a booker sees.

Calendar sync that checks your calendar

A booking page is only as trustworthy as its conflict checks, so Tymeslot syncs both ways. It reads your busy times to hide taken slots, and writes each booking back to your calendar. At 1.0 it works with:

• Google Calendar
• Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365
• Any CalDAV server, with tested instructions for Nextcloud, Radicale, Zimbra, and mailbox.org

If a provider is briefly unreachable, the sync waits in a queue and retries. Google and Outlook also push changes to Tymeslot as they happen, so an event you add there blocks the slot without waiting for the next poll.

Google, Outlook and Microsoft 365, or any CalDAV server.

Video links, created for you

Connect a provider and each booking gets its meeting link automatically, dropped into the calendar invite and the confirmation. At 1.0 that means MiroTalk, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. If you use something else, you can paste your own link.

Put the booking page anywhere

The embeddable widget drops your booking page onto any site with a snippet you copy in. It loads in an isolated frame, resizes itself to fit, and only runs on the domains you allow.

Inline or popup, with the snippet ready to copy.

Reminders and notifications

Confirmations, cancellations, reminders, invitations, and reschedule requests go out as proper emails, and reminders are configurable per meeting type. If you would rather have a nudge on your phone, connect a Telegram bot for instant notifications (on the managed service, Telegram is part of the Pro plan).

Sign in how your team already does

Alongside email and password, you can sign in with Google, GitHub, or any OIDC provider, including self-hosted ones like Keycloak.

Five languages

The interface is available in English, German, French, Italian, and Ukrainian. Booking emails reach each attendee in their own language, with dates and times formatted the way they expect.

Yours to run

Tymeslot's source code is public, and self-hosting gives you the complete product, every feature included. There are Docker and Cloudron packages for running it yourself, and a managed service if you would rather we did. The scheduling engine is the same either way.

That is 1.0. Thanks to everyone who ran the early builds and told us what was missing; a good deal of it made the release. We are already working on what comes next.