Hi Product Hunt 👋 I built PracticeOak because of something I kept noticing in Indian clinics: the entire appointment book lives in a WhatsApp inbox. A receptionist scrolls forty messages every morning to work out who's coming in, confirms each one by hand, and the clinic still loses slots to no-shows. Meanwhile every scheduling tool on the market sends reminders by email — which, in this market, is the same as sending nothing. People here read WhatsApp in minutes and email once a week. So PracticeOak does two things: 📅 Your practice becomes a link or a QR code. Clients scan the card on your reception desk or tap the link in your bio, see only the slots you're actually free, and confirm in a few taps. Nothing to install, no account to create. 💬 Confirmations and reminders go out automatically over the official WhatsApp Business API alongside email — where they'll actually be read. Everything else follows from that: services with their own durations, multi-staff calendars with conflict detection, an embeddable booking widget, client history. I'm building it solo alongside a full-time job, and I've been doing the setup in person at clinics in my own city — which taught me more in two weeks than three months of building did. Watching a WhatsApp confirmation land on someone's own phone closes a sale faster than any landing page I could write. Free forever plan, no card. There's a live demo you can actually book on: practiceoak.com/demo Two things I'd genuinely like your take on: 1. Is the QR-on-the-counter flow the right wedge, or is the embeddable widget the stronger one? I've been assuming walk-in businesses (salons, dental clinics) prefer the QR, but I'm not certain. 2. For those of you outside India — does the "messaging app instead of email" problem exist in your market too? Brazil and Indonesia keep coming up in my research and I'd love to hear it first-hand. I'll be here all day. Ask me anything, including about the WhatsApp Cloud API setup — the docs are rough and I lost a weekend to template category rules.

PracticeOak

Appointment booking software for professionals, cuts no-show

Appointment booking software for professionals, cuts no-show