They have at least 2 competitors: Appointlet (5 people) and Harmonizely (2 people). How did this company get $350M for linking calendars. Harmonizely has more features (e.g. CalDAV integration)! Both have more generous free tiers
After reading your comment, I checked out both. Bad User Experience. Calendly just works for the 99% of the normal people who have no idea what CalDAV is. I like CalDAV but more like a good-to-have.
I almost liked harmonizely just because of the fact I can setup custom domain but after trying out for an hour or so, I think I will have to wait for Calendly to start sucking before I come back here.
Saying "Bad User Experience" without explaining is just saying, "Bad" or "Bad product". It doesn't help, and I would say discredits you. Not sure what you mean.
Some improvements they can make:
- Support OAuth2 and immediate Google Cal integration
- Use modern UI (they have dated (~2017/2018 style) but very functional UI)
I'm sorry I didn't go into the details of my experience. I respect your decision of not caring about some aspects of a product. That is a valid point to like/dislike a product.
I'm thinking of using Harmonizely for my company - I like the custom domain feature. Personally, I will stay with Calendly and will also try my best to ask them to add custom domain and CalDAV.
Calendly on the other hand, hasn't cared to add CalDAV integration since 2016: https://help.calendly.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/245299227...