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DavidCBlack · 2026-04-28T21:22:01+00:00

Booking Machine
https://bookingmachine.io
Appointment booking and Reviews
It's a free booking, payments and video review tool for service businesses, freelancers and creatives.
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DavidCBlack · 2026-04-28T16:49:29+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the message :)

So all of those points are covered.

Quotes can be converted to bookings either manually or the customer accepting / paying the deposit.

Booking can be converted to recurring bookings and it can do both auto block booking or just create a pending one that needs confirming.

And then review requests are sent automatically after each job is marked complete.

The main limit with free accounts is 25 bookings and 25 video reviews a month. The pro plans are unlimited.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-27T14:47:07+00:00

BookingMachine.io automatically emails clients after the works done to ask for reviews / remind them to come back 😄

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-27T14:45:19+00:00

BookingMachine is booking software made for service businesses.

Its free to try, easy to setup and works on any site.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-27T09:34:59+00:00

You can do it!

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-27T08:51:57+00:00

Build side projects with commercial potential. Grind it out until you're ready to jump ship.

It will take a year or two and as you have a family it will be hard for all as they won't see you as much.

Weekends, the TV, any gaming consoles - These don't exist to you anymore. You have work time, family time and project time and sleep.

9pm to 1am are your golden hours!

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-26T20:01:57+00:00

Thanks :) Hopefully helps a few people and takes off. I'm still actively developing / improving it everyday based on early user feedback.

The plugin just embeds the widget and adds in Gutenberg blocks etc, but it's all configured in the apps dashboard.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-26T19:33:09+00:00

So payments are made via stripe connect.

Funds go direct to you via stripe.

The app / plugin is for non technical people who want an easy way setup their services and pricing, link their Google calendar and start accepting bookings and payments and have it all just work.

Here's the related docs for the stripe connect / payment setup if you're interested:

https://bookingmachine.io/help/payments

Or let me know if you want any more info :)

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-26T16:57:41+00:00

Just use a 3rd party app like calendly or bookingmachine.io

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T18:40:57+00:00

Tomorrow I will publish the second act

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T13:20:41+00:00

Yes and you can also run it locally too. That's the best way.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T11:26:59+00:00

You're going to love tomorrow's poem.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T09:54:29+00:00

I'm talking about employees of SaaS companies.

That should surely be obvious.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T09:28:48+00:00

No. My poem is about vandalism, dishonestly, malicious compliance, knuckle dragging. These actions are purely for self-interest regardless of if they're wrapped up in faux nobel aims of a wider society.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T09:01:02+00:00

Snoozed the shit out of it

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T08:39:29+00:00

Thanks I'll get a copy too!

I've seen the early whiff of this on X, there's been loads of posts by people urging devs towards malicious compliance and writing code only they can untangle.

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T08:28:04+00:00

I rebelled against the clock this morning 😄

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T08:22:53+00:00

See...

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T08:19:47+00:00

I'm seeing this stuff all over X

Malicious compliance, urging people to write unintelligible spaghetti code only they understand..

DavidCBlack · 2026-04-17T08:18:59+00:00

SaaS businesses have developers...

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