tombrereton / shedy

Shedy

Shedy is an api to book meetings with a freelancer or organisation.

Api use cases:

1. Get available times for organisation
2. Create meeting with organisation
3. Update meeting with organisation
4. Delete meeting with organisation

Organisation use cases:

1. Login as Admin to account
2. Login as User to account
3. Login as Consultant to account
4. Set opening hours for meetings
5. Set time off for user
6. Get Api Key when logged in as Admin
7. Refresh Api Key when logged in as Admin

Background use cases:

1. Sync with Google Calendar
2. Sync with Microsoft Calendar

Application Architecture

Shedy uses a combination of DDD and Clean Architecture.

The Core project contains the domain and application but we will minimise external dependencies. Some basic nuget packages will be installed to help with following design patterns such as CQRS. For example, Mediatr FluentValidation.

We make the use of Aggregates to ensure business rules are always correct.

The Api project exposes the Core project to the web and is the interface for external users to interact with the main part of the application. We keep this layer this as possible and defer most of the logic to the Core.

The Infrastructure is where we keep the logic that interacts with data. This will contain the code for persistence and any other external data calls.

Comparison of Scheduling Services

Calendly

• From small businesses to Fortune 100 companies, millions of people around the world rely on Calendly to close deals, land candidates, build relationships, and grow their business—faster.
• good pricing but limited to 1 event type, 1 calendar, and 1 calendar sync

Honey Book

• An excellent service which targets freelancers
• They provide a calendar which you can share
• Their monthly subscription is expensive, starting at $39 US / month
• They take a fee for transactions

TimeKit

• Targeted at Web Developers and tech savvy organisations
• Amazing API support and documentation
• Very expensive for API access, $149 US / month

Shedy

• Targeted at web developers and software engineers!
• API first, minimalist scheduling service
• Cheaper than all the above
• Free tier with 100 event types, 2 calendar syncs, 100 users and calendars
• Shedy assumes that if you have more than 5 bookings per month you can afford to pay!
• Shedy limits free tier to 5 bookings, anything over clients will see bookings but when they click to book it's says fully booked. You get an email asking to pay $5 to allow booking
• Next tier starts at only $10 AUD / month, with unlimited bookings