Hotline

Pick a time. Run the week. Count the hours.

What makes it different

• Your whole calendar stays private. The host offers a short list of times instead of publishing full availability. For teams whose calendars are a public record — or opposition research — that is the whole point.
• Works with the calendar you already keep. Google, Outlook, Apple iCloud, or anything that publishes an ICS feed. Hotline connects to each one directly and labels every busy block with where it came from.
• One link, one tap, no account. The other person picks a time from their phone, in their own timezone. Every link is single-use and re-checked at the moment of booking, so a slot can't go twice.
• Priced per organization, not per seat. One person is free, with nothing metered. Above that the bill is per organization with unlimited seats — charging by the head is a strange way to bill a team that runs on volunteers, fellows, and people who schedule twice a year.

When the calendar isn't only yours

Campaigns, mutual aid groups and small nonprofits don't only book meetings — they run a rota. Hotline does that in the same place, so the shift schedule isn't a second tool with a second login and a second copy of everyone's name.

• Build the week as a draft. Shifts stay invisible until you publish them, so next month can be worked out in front of people without landing half-formed on anyone's calendar.
• The people you schedule don't need accounts. Add a name. Add an email later, if they want their shifts on their own calendar. Bring a roster in from a spreadsheet and take one back out.
• Read coverage instead of counting it. Who's on, and which days nobody is — as a view of the week rather than a tally you assemble by hand.
• Hours and cost, straight from the shifts. Worked time is reviewed and signed off before it counts as money, then comes out by week or by month as a printable invoice. Admins see the cost; everyone else sees their own hours.

Why we built this