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This is an interesting approach, but they’re awfully proud of themselves for charging 50% of what calendly charges. The biggest cost of a SaaS like this is the

This is an interesting approach, but they’re awfully proud of themselves for charging 50% of what calendly charges. The biggest cost of a SaaS like this is the cost of sales…so if they can convince enough people with this tactic, it’ll work. But RabdomBugCo is paying Calendly $20k/mo to have an expensive account rep team answer their questions and $1k/mo for the technology.

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zola_user 3y ago
$21k/mo is too pricy for a meeting scheduling platform.
- spacebanana7 3y ago
  Depends on the number of employees and degree of integration. If you're a large enterprise (say >10k employees) then changing your meeting scheduling platform would readily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in employee time. Therefore, your exiting meeting scheduling platform should charge at a commensurate amount because they can get away with it. Interestingly, this can create a market where new adopters use competitively priced, or even FOSS, whilst at the same time enterprises pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for legacy alternatives. Even when the legacy product is inferior. Given enough time, the new adopters become large enterprises and the formerly competitive/FOSS suppliers become incentivised to take advantage of the switching cost and raise prices / change licensing. This opens a market for new suppliers to the 'new' new adopters and the cycle continues.
lars_francke 3y ago
I understand that our "Teams" plan has more functionality than neetoCal's paid plan but we do pay 16/20 USD (yearly/monthly) per month to Calendly. The savings would be significant. And the only reason we pay for their Teams plan is that "Round Robin" events are only supported there. I have zero loyalty to calendly because I feel they are too expensive and would switch to neetoCal in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, neetoCal only supports 1:1 and Round Robin meetings and not "collective" events: many:one or many:many meetings.
- neerajdotname2 3y ago
  I would be interested in chatting with you about the feature that is missing in neetoCal. Please email me at neeraj@bigbinary.com.
Hitton 3y ago
If it's annual, it's less than 1/3. As for asking questions: How often do you expect to ask about calendars. Wouldn't be small lean company better in answering questions?

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zola_user 3y ago

$21k/mo is too pricy for a meeting scheduling platform.

spacebanana7 3y ago
Depends on the number of employees and degree of integration. If you're a large enterprise (say >10k employees) then changing your meeting scheduling platform would readily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in employee time. Therefore, your exiting meeting scheduling platform should charge at a commensurate amount because they can get away with it. Interestingly, this can create a market where new adopters use competitively priced, or even FOSS, whilst at the same time enterprises pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for legacy alternatives. Even when the legacy product is inferior. Given enough time, the new adopters become large enterprises and the formerly competitive/FOSS suppliers become incentivised to take advantage of the switching cost and raise prices / change licensing. This opens a market for new suppliers to the 'new' new adopters and the cycle continues.

lars_francke 3y ago

I understand that our "Teams" plan has more functionality than neetoCal's paid plan but we do pay 16/20 USD (yearly/monthly) per month to Calendly. The savings would be significant. And the only reason we pay for their Teams plan is that "Round Robin" events are only supported there. I have zero loyalty to calendly because I feel they are too expensive and would switch to neetoCal in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, neetoCal only supports 1:1 and Round Robin meetings and not "collective" events: many:one or many:many meetings.

neerajdotname2 3y ago
I would be interested in chatting with you about the feature that is missing in neetoCal. Please email me at neeraj@bigbinary.com.

Hitton 3y ago

If it's annual, it's less than 1/3. As for asking questions: How often do you expect to ask about calendars. Wouldn't be small lean company better in answering questions?