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The story behind Schedulinq

Thijs Meulenbelt, founder of Schedulinq

I'm Thijs Meulenbelt, founder of Schedulinq. Schedulinq came out of my own frustration. I ran a successful installation business with engineers out on the road, but it was eating up more and more of my planning time. How do you make sure three engineers get the most out of their day without crisscrossing the region? Every week it got more complicated.

My days got busy. So did my evenings. Phone calls, leaving voicemails, getting called back at the worst possible moment. Spreadsheets full of ticks and last-minute changes. Customers booking times that split my day in two. It wasn't a craft anymore. It was admin.

Thijs Meulenbelt giving a presentation about Schedulinq

I tried the well-known booking tools. Calendly, plannen.nl, a handful of others. All fine products, built for people behind a desk. Not one of them looked at where my engineers already had to be that day. They read my calendar and ignored my route.

Until I realised: this solution isn't going to exist unless I build it myself. As it happens, I'm also a software developer. In my spare hours I built a first version of Schedulinq, one with geographic awareness baked in from the very first line of code. Not as a feature, but as the foundation.

Thijs Meulenbelt working on the Schedulinq code

Today I've sold my stake in the installation business to focus entirely on Schedulinq. Schedulinq wasn't dreamed up in a boardroom, but in a van and at a kitchen table. Built by an entrepreneur, for entrepreneurs. Because it genuinely solves something: not just for my engineers back then, but for every business owner who works on location.

Our mission

Give business owners back the time they now lose to planning. What that means in practice depends on where you stand today:

Still planning by hand?

We promise you your evenings back. No more calling around to fill tomorrow, no customers calling back at bad moments, no spreadsheets to keep the schedule straight. Schedulinq does the work nobody enjoys.

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We promise less drive time and more appointments per week. Other booking tools ignore your route. Schedulinq only offers customers times that keep your day compact, before they get to choose.

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