Rallly

Rallly is a popular open-source scheduling and group-poll application with over 5,000 GitHub stars, written in TypeScript on top of Next.js, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Originally built as a privacy-friendly alternative to Doodle, it has matured into a comprehensive scheduling platform used by teams, clubs, and organisations to coordinate meetings, events, and shared bookings without locking participant data into a third-party SaaS.

Common Use Cases

Distributed teams use Rallly to coordinate cross-timezone meetings — organisers propose multiple time slots, the platform automatically renders each in the respondent's local timezone, and the dashboard surfaces the slot that maximises attendance. Community organisers (clubs, sports leagues, hobby groups) run Rallly to schedule recurring events, taking advantage of no-account-required voting that keeps participation friction near zero. Educators and parent-teacher coordinators schedule conference appointments and meetups by sharing a poll link via email or messaging app, letting invitees pick available windows without exposing the organiser's calendar. Event planners and freelancers self-host Rallly to coordinate kickoff calls, client interviews, and panel discussions while keeping participant emails and topic information private under their own domain. Open-source maintainers use it to schedule community calls, allowing both contributors and casual attendees to indicate availability without signing up.

Key Features

• Multi-option date and time polls with concurrent availability collection
• Automatic timezone rendering per respondent for distributed groups
• No-signup voting for invitees — only organisers maintain accounts
• Email magic-link authentication for organisers, no passwords stored
• Locked and hidden options for finalising the chosen time without further changes
• Comprehensive organiser dashboard tracking responses across multiple polls
• Custom branding with site name, logo, and colour theme
• Calendar invite generation once a slot is finalised
• Email notifications when respondents add or update their availability
• PostgreSQL persistence with simple backup-and-restore for the entire history

Integration and Customisation

Rallly integrates with any standard SMTP provider for sending login magic-links and respondent notifications, so teams can plug in Gmail SMTP, Postfix, SendGrid, AWS SES, or any other provider through a small set of environment variables. Calendar invite generation produces standard ICS files that work in Outlook, Apple Calendar, and Google Calendar. Custom branding extends to the site name, logo, and theme colours, so a hosted instance can feel like part of an organisation's identity rather than a generic SaaS landing page. The codebase is open source and welcomes contributions, and the maintainer team ships frequent point releases with bug fixes and feature additions tracked through a public roadmap.

Why deploy Rallly on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Rallly on a Hostinger VPS gives you a private group-scheduling service under your own domain with no per-poll fees, no third-party data sharing, and full control over participant information. The dedicated CPU and RAM keep poll pages snappy even when many invitees are voting at once, while persistent volume storage protects your scheduling history across container updates and rebuilds. Self-hosting also keeps participant identity private — there is no third party logging which polls you create, who voted, or what topics you scheduled, which matters for organisations subject to GDPR or other privacy regulations. Full root access lets you wire up your own SMTP server for magic-link emails, configure custom branding to match your organisation, integrate with backup pipelines that pick up the PostgreSQL volume, and tune the deployment for whatever scale your community needs without negotiating with a SaaS vendor or paying per-poll fees that grow with your usage.