I am building a timetable maker for real weeks, not ideal ones

Joe Walter — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:23:53 +0000

I have been rebuilding TimetableMaker around a simple idea: a timetable should help someone live their week, not just make a pretty grid.

The app is for students, teachers, teams, and anyone trying to turn a messy set of commitments into something they can actually follow. It can create weekly schedules, add breaks and recovery time, save workspaces, and export a timetable as PNG or PDF.

The part I am working on now is the uncomfortable bit: making the product useful in real life. A schedule can be technically correct and still fail because it ignores travel time, energy, changing priorities, or the fact that people do not behave like calendar robots.

So I am opening the product to early users and asking for honest feedback: what is the first thing you would fix, remove, or add after using it?

I am especially interested in:

better study planning
smarter conflict detection
realistic breaks and travel time
sharing schedules with a class, family, or team
exports and integrations
a more personal, less corporate experience

Try it here: https://timetablemaker.co

Early users can use LAUNCH-PRO-2026 for one month of Pro access. No payment details are required for the coupon.

If you try it, please tell me one specific moment where the product felt confusing, slow, or incomplete. That is more useful to me than a general looks good. I will use the repeated requests to decide what gets built next.

Thanks for taking a look. Building this in public, one slightly more realistic week at a time.

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I am building a timetable maker for real weeks, not ideal ones