Studio Scheduler

Overview

Studio Scheduler is a system created to manage rehearsal studio bookings. It was designed as an operational platform, not just a calendar page, with enough structure to handle the realities of creative spaces that manage rooms, time slots, and repeated reservations every week.

Motivation

The project came from a practical gap in the market: many rehearsal studios still manage reservations through WhatsApp threads, spreadsheets, and manual coordination. That process works until volume increases and the studio needs a clearer view of room usage, recurring bookings, and schedule conflicts.

Problem

Managing rehearsal rooms becomes chaotic when multiple bands compete for the same time windows. The most common issues were:

• double bookings caused by manual updates
• fragmented communication across messages and spreadsheets
• no reliable view of room availability
• recurring reservations handled manually every week

Solution

Studio Scheduler centralizes the operation into a single system where studio owners can manage rooms, reservations, and availability with a clearer scheduling workflow.

Core capabilities include:

• room scheduling
• availability visualization
• recurring reservations
• reservation management
• search functionality

Technical Challenges

The hardest part was not building screens. It was designing reservation logic flexible enough to support real studio operations without making the data model brittle.

Main technical challenges included:

• designing recurrence rules without turning updates into a fragile workflow
• handling time slots and availability calculations consistently
• preventing booking conflicts across overlapping reservations
• keeping the platform extensible enough for multiple rooms and future multi-studio support

Technologies Used

• C#
• .NET
• React
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• API-driven architecture