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Building Calndr, a free AddEvent alternative

atymic on May 10, 2020

Coronavirus has impacted pretty much every business large and small, and has resulted in a massive surge in online events. Companies that previous ...
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Amitav Roy

Looking forward to your article on deploying Laravel based app on Cloud Run. I have used AWS however, running Laravel on AWS serverless is something which I have not been able to do. And, I fell your article can help.

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nabila gea saraya

Really, you are a life savior! All those services are very expensive for small businesses like me that only run small events occasionally, but your solution is really helpful! Thanks!

(I'm joining Dev just to leave this comment haha)

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Dave Roberts

This truly is a life savior! It's exactly what our non-profit was looking for - thank you!!

Just one glitch that I found. When opening the Google Calendar link, the event will always shows the time zone as "(GMT+00:00) Coordinated Universal Time" regardless of what time zone was used to generate the event, however the start/end times are adjusted...so it ends up in your calendar with the right times...although if you open the event you will still see the wrong time zone and adjusted hours, which could cause some confusion. I'm not sure if this is something you can fix with how you pass in the time zone or not. It works perfectly for Apple, Outlook, and Yahoo! however.

Thanks again!

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Gaelle Le Goff

Looking great and super easy to use, however can't figure out how to change the time of the meeting. Any help welcome!

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Prabu Rajasekaran • Edited

Every event that you create has an edit link above the event title. Use that to make all kinds of changes to the event.

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Kanarowski

Goodness. THANK YOU. I was looking at spending $1188/year with AddEvent and as a solo entrepreneur that was really going to hurt. Definitely buying you (many) coffees via your link on the site.

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Kanarowski

Ahhh... would there be an option to allow it to be a reoccurring event that happens at the same time every week? I'll keep this filed for one-off events for now but I need something that will allow students to add a reoccurring class time to their calendars. Thank you!

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n0oDLe

Thanks a lot for your dev! Is there any chance to add Office 365 Calendar option?

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sdanpo

Perfect tool and API.
Thanks!

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Faruk Günes

Is there an option to allow it to be a reoccurring event that happens at the same time every week? Thank you!