Clockwise

Rearrange flexible holds around fixed meetings for one user's calendar

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🪦 Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026 after the team joined Salesforce, with prepaid time refunded pro rata. The verdict below is now a post-mortem.

price historical · $6.75/mo per seatestimated build time closest consolation build: one sittingreplaced by 0 people

A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Clockwise, rearrange flexible holds around fixed meetings for one user's calendar. The hard boundary is organization-wide optimization, calendar graph, team adoption, and conflict safety, plus calendar integrations and reliability.

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What you give up

  • organization-wide optimization, calendar graph, team adoption, and conflict safety
  • multiple calendar providers
  • team routing and round-robin
  • payments
  • timezone edge-case maturity

Why people still pay

People still pay for Clockwise because people pay because one double booking or missed invite can cost more than years of subscription fees. The recurring cost buys OAuth refresh, webhooks, timezone databases, race conditions, reminders, deliverability, privacy, and uptime, not just the visible interface.

Your build guide

The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.

Before you start

  • Google Calendar OAuth credentials
  • PostgreSQL
  • public deploy target
  • Resend API key
  • domain with HTTPS
01
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Google Calendar OAuth, and Resend.
02
Model hosts, availability rules, busy intervals, bookings, and cancellation events; keep stable source IDs and timestamps.
03
Interface for this booking links and calendar automation workflow: a local web page with input, progress, review, and export views.
engineering roadmap

Implementation plan

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Phase 1, architecture and data

Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Google Calendar OAuth, and Resend. Model hosts, availability rules, busy intervals, bookings, and cancellation events; keep stable source IDs and timestamps.

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Phase 2, implement

Implement one account with configurable working hours, buffers, minimum notice, and booking horizon.

3

Phase 3, implement

Connect Google Calendar using OAuth and store refresh tokens encrypted at rest.

4

Phase 4, review and output

Send confirmation, cancellation, and reminder email with signed management links. Add an admin booking list, event-type editor, audit log, and calendar reconnect flow.

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Phase 5, recovery and acceptance

Send confirmation, cancellation, and reminder email with signed management links. Verify this invariant with a saved fixture: A daylight-saving transition cannot create an invalid local time; concurrent reservations must not claim the same slot. State the practical limit: organization-wide optimization, calendar graph, team adoption, and conflict safety.

the pro prompt
Build me a focused booking links and calendar automation workflow for the personal core of Clockwise. Requirements:

- Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Google Calendar OAuth, and Resend. Model hosts, availability rules, busy intervals, bookings, and cancellation events; keep stable source IDs and timestamps.
- Paid product context: Rearrange flexible holds around fixed meetings for one user's calendar. Build only this DIY scope: Read one user's calendar, rearrange flexible holds around fixed meetings, create conflict-safe bookings, and send confirmations and reminders.
- Implement one account with configurable working hours, buffers, minimum notice, and booking horizon.
- Connect Google Calendar using OAuth and store refresh tokens encrypted at rest.
- Send confirmation, cancellation, and reminder email with signed management links. Add an admin booking list, event-type editor, audit log, and calendar reconnect flow.
- Use a local web page with input, progress, review, and export views. Required input or access: Google Calendar OAuth credentials; public deploy target. Keep credentials in .env.
- Recovery: Send confirmation, cancellation, and reminder email with signed management links.
- Acceptance: with one labelled sample, show the input, saved intermediate state, and exported result; verify this invariant: A daylight-saving transition cannot create an invalid local time; concurrent reservations must not claim the same slot.
- Out of scope: organization-wide optimization, calendar graph, team adoption, and conflict safety; multiple calendar providers. Keep this a personal, inspectable workflow.
- Include a README with setup, a sample input, required keys or permissions, data location, and the supported scope.

$ open in your agent (prompt prefilled, you press enter), copy the prompt or copy AGENTS.md · generated from this app's build plan

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Alternatives to building your own

FlowSavvy FreeIt auto-plans unlimited tasks for the next two weeks; priorities and dependencies are how the paid plan gets you.$0free↗Reclaim LiteThe free solo plan moves focus, habits, breaks and meetings around; the planning horizon is one week.$0free↗Trevor AI FreeOne calendar gets task-to-time-block planning and some AI suggestions; multiple calendars and deeper automation cost extra.$0free↗

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Questions about Clockwise

Can you build your own Clockwise with AI?

A full replacement is not the recommended project. A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Clockwise, rearrange flexible holds around fixed meetings for one user's calendar. The hard boundary is organization-wide optimization, calendar graph, team adoption, and conflict safety, plus calendar integrations and reliability.

What does the Clockwise build prompt cover?

The prompt starts with this scope: Read one user's calendar, rearrange flexible holds around fixed meetings, create conflict-safe bookings, and send confirmations and reminders. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: organization-wide optimization, calendar graph, team adoption, and conflict safety; multiple calendar providers; team routing and round-robin. 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 Clockwise 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 Clockwise project take?

The catalogue estimate is closest consolation build: one sitting 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 Clockwise?

organization-wide optimization, calendar graph, team adoption, and conflict safety; multiple calendar providers; team routing and round-robin; payments; timezone edge-case maturity. People still pay for Clockwise because people pay because one double booking or missed invite can cost more than years of subscription fees. The recurring cost buys OAuth refresh, webhooks, timezone databases, race conditions, reminders, deliverability, privacy, and uptime, not just the visible interface.

What price is this guide comparing against?

The recorded Teams plan is $6.75/mo per seat (annual-equivalent per user), checked 2026-07-31. Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026 after the team joined Salesforce, with prepaid time refunded pro rata; this is historical pricing. Building your own also has hosting, API and maintenance costs; the recorded amount is not a guaranteed saving.

What can I use instead of building Clockwise?

FlowSavvy Free: It auto-plans unlimited tasks for the next two weeks; priorities and dependencies are how the paid plan gets you. Reclaim Lite: The free solo plan moves focus, habits, breaks and meetings around; the planning horizon is one week. Trevor AI Free: One calendar gets task-to-time-block planning and some AI suggestions; multiple calendars and deeper automation cost extra. Compare all listed options at https://howtovibecodeit.dev/clockwise/alternatives. Check each option's license, hosting needs and feature limits.

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