Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative

[chetbaker]

@roofboard I’m not a developer, but happy to test out when there’s any unstable self hosted implementation.

[jdaviescoates]

@roofboard great news, thanks! Hopefully @staff or @appdev can help out too!

[3699n]

Would love to see support for Cal.com as well!

[roofboard]

I have made some progress here apparently calcom needs access to a database while running yarn build, and while running yarn it would be writing to /app/code

So I created a temporary database so long as you build this on a server with access to postgres this will work. The only problem is that I cannot figure out why it is stuck on localhost:3000 as opposed to accepting the new dns settings

https://git.draglabs.com/davidjstrom/cloudron-calcom-v2/-/tree/localhost-issue

@girish
Any thoughts?

[3699n]

@roofboard said in Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative:

So I created a temporary database so long as you build this on a server with access to postgres this will work. The only problem is that I cannot figure out why it is stuck on localhost:3000 as opposed to accepting the new dns settings

Your work looks very promising! Unfortunately, there is not much feedback I can provide from the technical perspective.

[jdaviescoates]

@roofboard said in Cal.com (was Calendso) - Calendly Alternative:

I have made some progress here apparently calcom needs access to a database while running yarn build, and while running yarn it would be writing to /app/code
So I created a temporary database so long as you build this on a server with access to postgres this will work. The only problem is that I cannot figure out why it is stuck on localhost:3000 as opposed to accepting the new dns settings
https://git.draglabs.com/davidjstrom/cloudron-calcom-v2/-/tree/localhost-issue
@girish
Any thoughts?

Thanks for working on this! Cal.com now works really well with Nextcloud calendar (I'm using the hosted service) so it'd be absolutely fantastic to have it on Cloudron!

Hopefully @staff can take a look at this package @roofboard has started and help get it finished up and into the app store!

[tshirt-chihuahu]

Let's get this across the finish line!

A decent scheduling alternative will be huge!

From what I can tell one of us just needs to:

1. successfully complete a docker build (looks like @roofboard has made a start, well done )
2. add the cloudron packaging files
3. I'm knew to this game, but it seems like we should then send a pull request to the main cal.com repo -- why not just stick with the primary repository on this one?
   ( thanks to @jdaviescoates 's github issue, they've stated their friendly to having this available on cloudron)

[tshirt-chihuahu]

@roofboard re: "I cannot figure out why it is stuck on localhost:3000 as opposed to accepting the new dns settings" --
can you provide further details on the problem you've run into? Is this when you're just trying to get it to run on docker on your local machine? or when deploying as a custom cloudron app? I'm unclear what the status is.

Some further elaboration might help us or @girish troubleshoot. If it's not cloudron specific, let's get a thread going with cal.com if we need to.

[dev-cb]

@tshirt-chihuahu thank you for being so enthusiastic about this one!

[tshirt-chihuahu]

Just a quick update from me....

I did an initial test using cal.com (hosted by them) and their CalDAV integration with NextCloud, and it failed some of my required use case tests (recurring invites were buggy.....although it looks like one of the use cases may have been fixed already, so this means progress is being made....and I may need to re-test soon).

So this isn't quite high enough priority for me to mess with getting the deployment on Cloudron figured out since it can't quite solve my use case yet....

However, if you want this to progress, here's what I suggest:

1. start using/testing a hosted cal.com account
2. since you likely don't want to hand them your main login credentials, if you're using NextCloud, you can make a separate "scheduler" user, and then share that calendar with your main calendar. (NextCloud seems to have gotten much better at this.) Or...just make a test account and try it.
3. post issues and talk back to the cal.com team.

The Cal team has a CalDAV integration issues roundup here you can check, comment on, prior to posting additional issues that you run into: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/3457

[jdaviescoates]

@tshirt-chihuahu yeah, I've been using the hosted version for a while now and I really like it!

For my use cases at least their integration with Nextcloud now works great after they ironed out various issues, so I'd love to be able to easily selfhost it on Cloudron as is!

[jdaviescoates]

2.4 is available

https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/releases/tag/v2.4.0

This is getting so good.

[3699n]

I would be interested to know what priority the Cloudron team has for bringing Cal.com to Cloudron. To me it seems like a killer feature, and I don't quite understand why there has been so little input from them in this thread recently.

Is there a public app roadmap of some sort?

[nebulon]

We actually wanted to package that already but mostly main bits of the app are not even public as far as I can tell. The main repo references git repos which are not available to the public: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/tree/main/apps

[3699n]

@nebulon Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Aren't all the necessary parts of the project public to deploy it on Cloudron? https://github.com/calcom/docker

[nebulon]

@3699n I maybe misunderstand their repo structure, but as far as I can tell the backend is not open source, only the frontend assets are.

[jdaviescoates]

@nebulon I don't think that can be right. They certainly claim that it is fully self-hostable, it's deployable on Heroku, Railway, Vercel and Render, and I'm pretty sure I've seen people on Twitter saying they are self-hosting it.

In this Tweet by Cal.com back in July 2022 they claim over 10,000 people were already self-hosting:

https://twitter.com/calcom/status/1559246473853812736

And here is one of the founders and Co-CEOs saying people are self-hosting it:

https://twitter.com/peer_rich/status/1553123068289187840

And this one from 11 days ago saying they are putting in a lot of work to make self-hosting easier

https://twitter.com/peer_rich/status/1610967646652059650

Presumably you have already looked at that docker link?

https://github.com/calcom/docker

Perhaps ask for help/ clarification in their Slack? https://cal.com/slack

I've also just directly asked them on Twitter here and invited them to chime into this thread:

https://twitter.com/jdaviescoates/status/1615088837520228370

Edit:

Seems there are some issues with slowness when selfhosting though:

https://twitter.com/peer_rich/status/1610726994525945857

Also, I've now asked about this in their Slack too:

https://calendso.slack.com/archives/C01NXDSRY9W/p1673902893871239

[chetbaker]

As far as I understand, it can be selfhosted.

I've done it myself in the past (not being a developer) using an heroku instance.

[marcusquinn]

@jdaviescoates Good initiative. If the community here can find the source, then I'm sure we can package it. Need some community help on the research and enlightenment though, as it's not been obvious to us.

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn The source can be found at: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/tree/e05bcf98c2348d2c322665fa752350134d7c74bb/apps/web

api, console, and website are not required for a Cal.com instance.

api: Both REST API endpoints and tRPC resolvers
console: This is the admin console they use to manage their instance internally
website: Landing page

Please see this issue for reference: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/1581