I've found cal.com to be a more pleasant experience than calendly. The interface looks more polished, it has a ton of integrations and it works really well.
I could in theory self-host it but I'd rather use a service with a proper team to maintain it.
The free tier does everything I need. I'd be more than willing to pay ~€5/month for it to contribute to its sustainability, but there is no paying tier that makes sense to me as an individual an occasional contractor.
I self-host Cal.com and broadly agree: it works great, has a clean look, and is super customizable.
That said, getting it running was kind of a nightmare. I forget the details, but I had to edit a few different codebases and Docker images. And just the `docker build` required a database running and the frontend build kept OOMing my computer and failing with esoteric errors when I tried Podman.
I could in theory self-host it but I'd rather use a service with a proper team to maintain it.
The free tier does everything I need. I'd be more than willing to pay ~€5/month for it to contribute to its sustainability, but there is no paying tier that makes sense to me as an individual an occasional contractor.