[verdict][generated prompt][source: sunsama.com]
Can I vibecode Sunsama?
// buildable in a weekend, but real gaps stay open
A daily planning dashboard is not hard, but Sunsama's value is many integrations, careful UX, calendar sync, and habit-forming workflow.
confidence: high
what it is: Daily planner that pulls tasks and calendar into a focused schedule
Buildability index · an editorial game
- Price 25 $/month · per seat weight: plus 3
- Time multi-day weight: plus 1
- Category tasks and calendar no weight
- Moat integrations · execution quality weight: minus 2
- Confidence high weight: plus 1
- What you lose 6 items weight: minus 3
- Site sunsama.com (si apre in una nuova scheda) no weight
They cancel out. This is where it comes down to how much the subscription annoys you.
Gioco editoriale: il verdetto dice se un agente può, l’indice se conviene.
What you build
Pull tasks/calendar events, let the user drag tasks into a day plan, track estimates/completion, and run a daily shutdown prompt.
what you need
- Google/Microsoft calendar OAuth
- task-tool APIs
- hosted backend
- auth
- notification/email channel
Good high-price target where the answer is not trivially yes because integrations matter.
The prompt
A weekend with a coding agent. The gaps that stay are right below, under “what you lose”.
Build me a solo daily planner like Sunsama. Requirements:
- A local web app on localhost:4400: Node + Express + better-sqlite3, server-rendered
with a little vanilla JS for drag and drop. No frontend framework.
- Today view, two columns: my Google Calendar events (read-only via googleapis, OAuth
creds in .env) as a timeline, and today's task list beside it.
- Tasks have title, estimate in minutes, project tag, done flag. Quick-add box at the
top, plus a backlog panel of unplanned tasks I can drag into today.
- Header shows planned minutes vs a daily budget from config (default 6h) and turns
red when I overplan.
- A /shutdown page for the end of day: walks each unfinished task, one keystroke to
roll to tomorrow, send to backlog, or drop, then shows planned vs actual.
- Keep per-day history in SQLite so a /week page can show the last 7 days of planned
vs done.
- Calendar is read-only: never write events. Out of scope: task-tool integrations
(Todoist, Trello, email), mobile apps, and two-way calendar sync.
- No accounts, no telemetry, everything local except the Google API calls.
- README: Google Cloud console steps for the OAuth client · budget an hour, that
console is the worst part of this build.Prompt generated from the data on this page, not reviewed by hand yet. In English on purpose — it is the language coding agents work best in.
What you lose
- integration breadth
- calendar two-way sync
- daily ritual design
- mobile apps
- analytics
- reliability
Why people still pay
They pay for a planning habit that survives across tools, not a new to-do list.
moat: Integrations Execution quality what a moat is
integrations/workflow design
Free alternatives
Not in the mood to build it? These already exist, they are free or open source, and we checked them one by one.
Rejected (3) — and why
- Amplenote Free (si apre in una nuova scheda) — Useful free tasks and notes, but external calendar sync is a Pro feature.
- Ellie Free (si apre in una nuova scheda) — Calendar integration and timebox mode are both behind the subscription.
- Routine Free (si apre in una nuova scheda) — The free plan has tasks and calendars, but the daily time-blocking loop is paid.
Who has already built it
Starting from here is still vibecoding: the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.
- Super Productivity (opens in a new tab) — Open-source task/time-planning app with local-first workflows. (alive)
What it costs in a year
25 $/mese 300 $/anno
Listino 25 $ al mese a persona su Sunsama. L’anno è dodici mesi pieni, senza sconti annuali.
Do you agree?
The vote balance
Ancora nessun voto: il tuo è il primo.
Nessun voto ancora — il primo pesa.
