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Joe Walter
Joe Walter

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

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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Eusebiu Balan

First thing I would add: what happens when a block gets missed. Not conflict detection, the other direction.

I build a habit tracker. People do not usually leave because the plan was wrong. They leave because at 9pm the plan is still sitting there with one empty slot in it, and that makes the whole week read as failed. They do not reschedule, they stop opening the app.

So a week that can absorb a missed block quietly is worth more to me than a week that was correct on Monday morning. Travel time and energy you will get asked for. Nobody is going to ask you for this one.