Calendly AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

Calendly AI AI

I cancelled my AI notetaker subscription and built my own tool using Claude Code. It works well (and it's free)

It does what Fathom, Otter, and Fireflies charge $15–$30/seat/month for. I shipped a fully working AI meeting note-taker last weekend. I use this exact setup to Records calls then transcribes and Summarizes key points, it then pulls action items and then creates shareable notes all whilst running inside my Claude workflow. . The whole setup takes one weekend to build. --- Here’s how it works:(you can copy this exactly) Step 1 → Fork the repo, drop into Cursor Step 2 → Set env vars: transcription key, database URI, admin creds, session secret Step 3 → Record or upload your meeting Step 4 → The audio gets transcribed Step 5 → Claude turns the transcript into structured notes, decisions, follow-ups, and action items Step 6 → Click “Share link” → send anywhere Total build time: ~1 weekend. Cost: $0/month. --- Why the 5-piece stack is the unlock? Most "build your own SaaS" attempts fall flat because they bolt features together without designing the user flow first. This stack works because the data path was decided before any UI got rendered. Every SaaS feature you pay for has a primitive underneath. Loom = browser recorder + S3 + share links. Otter = Whisper API + database + UI. Calendly = a calendar API + booking page. The features stopped being moats the moment Cursor + Claude could write the glue in an afternoon. You're not paying for technology anymore you're paying for distribution and brand. That's why this build pattern works. The assembly is now free. --- Why Claude? Because meeting notes are not just summaries. They need context. Claude can take a raw transcript and turn it into: * decisions * objections * follow-ups * action items * CRM-ready notes * client context * internal operating memory That is where the value is. --- https://github.com/albertshiney/utter_public submitted by /u/Tabani897_YT [link] [comments]

Claude for Small Business launched this week with 8 integrations. Most SMBs use 20+. What does that mean for the rest of the stack?

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on Tuesday. The package includes 15 prebuilt agentic workflows and 8 named integrations: Intuit QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack. The workflows handle things like invoice chasing, payroll planning, month-end close, sales campaigns, contract routing, and cash-flow forecasting. Owners approve before anything sends or pays. The basic facts are not in dispute. What's interesting is the math. Most small businesses use more than 8 tools. The common ones not on that list: Shopify, Stripe, Square, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel, Calendly, Notion, Airtable, ClickUp, Webflow, Zapier. Then vertical-specific tools: ServiceTitan, Jobber, Housecall Pro for trades. Kajabi, Teachable, Circle for creators. Toast, Resy, OpenTable for restaurants. Etsy, Faire, Printify for makers. Real question worth asking: how much of a typical small business stack does the 8-tool package actually cover, and which kinds of businesses are well-served versus left out? A rough walk through some common archetypes: Office-based service business (consultants, accountants, agencies, B2B services). Coverage is decent. Most are on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, run finance through QuickBooks, communicate via Slack, and many use HubSpot. The 8 tools probably hit most of the core stack for this group. E-commerce or DTC brand. Coverage is thin. Shopify isn't there. Stripe isn't there. Klaviyo isn't there. The actual revenue stack of an online store is mostly outside the covered set. Local trades (HVAC, plumbing, insulation, electrical, landscaping). Coverage is essentially absent. The operating systems for these businesses are ServiceTitan, Jobber, Housecall Pro, Square for payments, sometimes QuickBooks for accounting on the back end. The customer-facing and operational tools are not on the list. Creators, coaches, course sellers. Coverage is absent. Kajabi, ConvertKit, Teachable, Circle, Substack. None of it is in the package. Restaurants and hospitality. Coverage is absent. Toast, Square POS, Resy, OpenTable, Toast Payroll. The actual operating systems are not on the list. A few patterns emerge from that walk. First, the package targets a specific kind of small business. Office-based, white-collar, finance running through QuickBooks, meetings on Google or Microsoft, sales through HubSpot. That is a real segment. Anthropic chose it deliberately and the workflows make sense for that profile. Second, for everyone else, the prebuilt workflows mostly don't touch the tools they actually use day to day. The choice isn't "use Claude for Small Business or not." It's "AI in my operations, yes, but via custom work outside this package." That's not a complaint about the launch. Building 8 polished integrations is hard and Anthropic had to pick. It's more an observation that "Claude for Small Business" as a category name covers a wider universe than what the package actually addresses on day one. Curious how this lines up with what people are actually running. If you operate a small business, how many of the 8 covered tools are in your stack? And what's NOT on that list that you'd most want connected to an AI agent? submitted by /u/KolioMandrata [link] [comments]

I replaced 6 paid tools with AI in the last 8 months. Two replacements were mistakes. Here's the honest breakdown.

Have been doing a gradual experiment to see how useful some AI tools are in replacing my paid subscriptions. Thought it was worthwhile sharing practical experience rather than the common "either/or" approach when it comes to AI vs paid tools. ✅ Replacements working out great: Grammarly – $12 per month. Both Claude and ChatGPT do an amazing job catching grammar and tone problems. Don't really miss it anymore. Savings: $144 per year. Paid stock photos subscription – $29 per month. Using AI for generating images covers ~80% of my needs in terms of creating blog headers and social media images. While the rest will be covered by real photography, for concepts and illustrations, AI is sufficient. Approximate savings: ~$250 per year. Basic scheduling assistant tool – combined scheduling through a free version of Calendly along with ChatGPT. Most of the things a paid scheduling tool did were not even necessary for me. ❌ Replacements that failed: SEO research tool – used AI as a substitute for my paid SEO research. Turned out that AI was wrong in its estimations far too frequently because it couldn't access real data on search volumes and made things up. Back to the paid tool within three weeks. Accounting software – tried using AI to perform my invoicing and accounting duties through spreadsheets. Turns out that the effort and time cost associated with maintaining it was higher than the price of the software. Some tools should not be replaced with workaround solutions. All in all, I save around $500 worth of subscriptions per year without missing anything. Also got insight into what AI is best suited to replacing: nice-to-have tools, not vital for my business operations. Has anyone here performed similar experiment on your toolstack? Would love to hear about it! submitted by /u/Devvirat [link] [comments]

I launched a fully vibe coded SaaS product and have paying customers

This post is not written by AI (so much stuff in this sub is, so I wanted to clarify this). I have over 20 years experience in web development, and have written everything from classic ASP w/ VBScript to PHP, JSP, Java, ASP.net, and Node. I've done accessibility consulting for Fortune 50 companies including Google, MicroSoft, Netflix, and more. Several months ago, I decided to scratch an itch: create an accessible alternative to Calendly. One of the hardest things about accessibility consulting is the inability to find services and SaaS platforms for your work that is accessible. For example, there's literally no CRM software that is accessible. It sucks, because often the choice is to not buy something at all, or build it yourself. While I'm not about to build my own version of Hubspot, an accessible alternative to Calendly is pretty straightforward. My SaaS product, Meetabl (https://meetabl.com/) offers the ability to work with Google and Microsoft calendars, perform meeting polls, manage availability, manage event types, and integrates with Zoom. Every single thing about Meetabl has been vibe coded with Claude Code, with one exception: the landing page. I hired someone to design the landing page, which was implemented with Claude Code. The other meaningful exception is the CI/CD which was set up by a human. So far, Claude has proven to be completely useless for setting that stuff up - at least on AWS. I have a couple of very small RESTful API projects that I've deployed to Digital Ocean using Claude. I am in the end stages of launching another SaaS product that is a good bit more complicated that I'll share when it is done, if people here are interested. submitted by /u/karl_groves [link] [comments]