lemcal
Personalized scheduling pages and workflows for sales meetings
The visible sales scheduling loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. lemcal earns its keep through OAuth, calendar reliability, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.
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What you give up
- race-free booking under load
- team routing and round robin
- reliable reminders and timezone edge cases
- calendar-provider edge cases and timezone correctness
- multi-calendar conflict handling
Why people still pay
lemcal: People pay because a booking tool must never double-book them, leak private events, or send the wrong time to a client.
Your build guide
The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.
Before you start
- Runtime and tools: TypeScript, React, Node and PostgreSQL with a single authorized calendar adapter.
- Before starting: One calendar account with documented OAuth scopes, HTTPS callbacks, the host timezone and an always-on worker for reminders.
Use these project rules and optional skill references alongside the prompt. Review each skill before adding it to your agent; the AGENTS.md export includes the same guidance.
Project rule — domain: Store HostProfile, MeetingType, IntakeResponse, Reservation and Reminder; booking answers attach to the confirmed reservation, and rescheduling links authorize one booking only.
Project rule — scope and recovery: Start with one provider and no round-robin routing. Media embeds are optional and privacy-aware; custom branding does not solve external calendar consistency or email delivery.
Project rule — acceptance: Reschedule near a daylight-saving change and cancel an old reminder; the new slot is unambiguous and the original reminder cannot fire for the moved meeting.
Project rule — delivery: document real setup commands and permissions; do not claim a build, accuracy level, performance result or security certification that has not been demonstrated.
Recommended skill: supabase-postgres-best-practices — review this PostgreSQL domain schema, uniqueness constraints, transaction boundaries and access-scoped queries; Supabase hosting is not required. Follow the maintainer's installation instructions and match its requirements to the chosen runtime.
Recommended skill: web-design-guidelines — review keyboard access, focus, validation, error recovery and the readable work/review interface or HTML report. Follow the maintainer's installation instructions and match its requirements to the chosen runtime.
Implementation plan
Phase 1
Pin the working slice and create its example input: Publish a personalized sales-booking page with meeting types, intake questions, availability buffers and a clear reschedule flow. Confirm setup: One calendar account with documented OAuth scopes, HTTPS callbacks, the host timezone and an always-on worker for reminders.
Phase 2
Implement persistence and write-time invariants before decorating the UI: Store HostProfile, MeetingType, IntakeResponse, Reservation and Reminder; booking answers attach to the confirmed reservation, and rescheduling links authorize one booking only.
Phase 3
Connect the working view to real saved state. Store UTC instants plus the host IANA timezone and local availability rules. Recheck external busy time before reserving; serialize overlapping local reservations, and reconcile external creation failures without silently confirming.
Phase 4
Expose the app-specific limits and recovery path in context: Start with one provider and no round-robin routing. Media embeds are optional and privacy-aware; custom branding does not solve external calendar consistency or email delivery.
Phase 5
Walk through this concrete acceptance case and preserve its exported evidence: Reschedule near a daylight-saving change and cancel an old reminder; the new slot is unambiguous and the original reminder cannot fire for the moved meeting. Finish the README and backup/restore instructions; report unfinished capabilities explicitly.
Build the following focused alternative to lemcal. This is a deliberately limited personal or small-team substitute, not parity with the paid service. WORKING SLICE Publish a personalized sales-booking page with meeting types, intake questions, availability buffers and a clear reschedule flow. SETUP AND ARCHITECTURE Use TypeScript, React, Node and PostgreSQL with a single authorized calendar adapter. Prerequisites: One calendar account with documented OAuth scopes, HTTPS callbacks, the host timezone and an always-on worker for reminders. Before integrating anything, record actual versions and permissions, plus model files or provider limits only where used, in the README; make unavailable dependencies visible rather than simulating success. DOMAIN MODEL AND INVARIANTS Store HostProfile, MeetingType, IntakeResponse, Reservation and Reminder; booking answers attach to the confirmed reservation, and rescheduling links authorize one booking only. IMPLEMENTATION CONTRACT Store UTC instants plus the host IANA timezone and local availability rules. Recheck external busy time before reserving; serialize overlapping local reservations, and reconcile external creation failures without silently confirming. Provide an input/setup view, the main work view, and a review/export view appropriate to this workflow. Preserve the last saved state if a job or save fails. Include empty, loading, permission-denied, partial and retryable-error states. Log identifiers and error categories without secret values or unnecessary private content. APP-SPECIFIC BOUNDARY AND RECOVERY Start with one provider and no round-robin routing. Media embeds are optional and privacy-aware; custom branding does not solve external calendar consistency or email delivery. ACCEPTANCE SCENARIO Reschedule near a daylight-saving change and cancel an old reminder; the new slot is unambiguous and the original reminder cannot fire for the moved meeting. Also reopen the app after an interrupted operation, confirm the saved record/export remains inspectable, and document the recovery action. These are implementation acceptance requirements, not a claim that this guide has been tested. DELIVERY Deliver a runnable repository with migrations or project-format versioning, a non-sensitive example, environment/permission setup, the exact manual acceptance steps, and a backup/export-and-restore walkthrough. Implement the working slice before optional integrations; list any deferred paid-product capabilities honestly. Do not add capabilities outside the working slice just to resemble the original product. PROJECT RULES FOR AGENTS.md Keep the domain invariants above executable at the write boundary. Propose scope changes before adding providers or permissions. Never fabricate source evidence, publish results, identity matches or successful delivery. Preserve user originals and require an explicit confirmation for destructive changes or external publication.
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lemcal pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| starter | $0/user | $0/user | 1 calendar; 3 active meeting types; 3 availability schedules on the monthly comparison.The annual comparison on the same live page instead says unlimited availability schedules. |
| pro | $9/user | $7/user | 5 calendars; unlimited meeting types; unlimited availability schedules.14-day Pro trial. |
free tier1 user; 1 calendar; 3 active meeting types; the availability-schedule cap is internally inconsistent (3 on the monthly comparison, unlimited on the annual comparison).
billingmonthly + annual (-22%)
pricing sources checked 2026-08-14 · pricing source ↗
Questions about lemcal
Can you build your own lemcal with AI?
Partly. The visible sales scheduling loop is buildable, but a credible replacement needs more than the first screen. lemcal earns its keep through OAuth, calendar reliability, so expect a weekend or multi-day build and a narrower personal scope.
What does the lemcal build prompt cover?
The prompt starts with this scope: Publish a personalized sales-booking page with meeting types, intake questions, availability buffers and a clear reschedule flow. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: race-free booking under load; team routing and round robin; reliable reminders and timezone edge cases. Follow the implementation plan and its prerequisites before expanding the build.
How do I use the prompt, AGENTS.md and agent skills?
Start with the lemcal prerequisites and stack, then copy the prompt into your coding agent. Save the project rules as AGENTS.md in the project root. Linked skills are optional packages or source instructions for specific tasks; review their current contents and install only those matching the chosen stack. A skill does not supply API credentials or verify the finished app.
How long will this lemcal project take?
The catalogue estimate is weekend to multi-day for the limited scope. Setup, integration approvals, debugging, deployment and ongoing maintenance can add time. This is an estimate, not a delivery guarantee.
What would I give up by replacing lemcal?
race-free booking under load; team routing and round robin; reliable reminders and timezone edge cases; calendar-provider edge cases and timezone correctness; multi-calendar conflict handling. lemcal: People pay because a booking tool must never double-book them, leak private events, or send the wrong time to a client.
What can I use instead of building lemcal?
zcal Free: Personalized one-use links, branded pages, reminders and Zapier are free; round-robin sales routing is paid. Check each option's license, hosting needs and feature limits.