GrabTheSlot is a white-label online appointment booking platform for micro-businesses — salons, barbers, beauty studios, trainers and venues. Every business gets its own branded booking page, QR-code booking, automatic reminders and a flat, commission-free price. Built and hosted in the EU, GDPR-compliant.
─── The founder ───
Why I'm building this.
JM
I'm Mészáros János, a software engineer from Hungary, and I build
GrabTheSlot as a solo founder. The idea came from watching micro-businesses — the
hairdresser, the trainer, the massage therapist — lose evenings to scheduling messages
and lose money to no-shows, while the software offered to them was either an
enterprise suite they'd never grow into or a marketplace that took a cut of every new
client and kept the client relationship for itself.
GrabTheSlot is my answer: a booking page that belongs to the business — its name, its
brand, its client list — at a flat price a one-person company can pay without thinking
twice. Built in the EU, hosted in the EU, with GDPR taken seriously rather than
mentioned in a footer.
No mystery infrastructure: this is the exact set of providers behind GrabTheSlot.
The same list appears in our data processing agreement.
Provider
Role
Hetzner (Germany)
Servers and hosting — EU data residency
Supabase (Frankfurt, EU)
Database, authentication and storage
Paddle
Payments and invoicing as Merchant of Record
Resend
Transactional email delivery
─── The story so far ───
From grabit.hu to GrabTheSlot.
Launched in Hungary
The product went live on the Hungarian market as Grabit (grabit.hu), with a full Hungarian feature set: three booking models, reminders, QR booking, an add-on shop.
One brand for every market
GrabTheSlot became the international brand and entity home; the Hungarian site is migrating to grabtheslot.hu, with grabit.hu redirecting permanently.
German market in preparation
grabtheslot.de is registered and the German launch set — localized content, EUR pricing, German legal pages — is in the works.
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