Self-Service Event Sign-Up with Google Forms and Google Calendar

What is the most simply way for letting people sign up themselves to a Google Calendar event? Just a few clicks with my new Google Forms Event Sign-Up add-on:

1. 📆 Create an event in Google Calendar
2. 🗒️ Create a new Google Form that collects email addresses
3. 🔗 Connect the Google Form to the event in the calendar via the Event Sign-Up add-on
4. 📢 Publish
5. 🤵 Every respondent of the Google Form will be added as a participant and receive a calendar invite to the event
6. ✅ Self-service event sign-up

The add-on adds a configuration dialogue to Google Forms that let's you select a calendar and event to connect to this form:

A quick demo of how to use it:

Why Yet Another Tool?

First of all, I like creating tools! Also, while there are other options available, they all lack 2 main requirements for me:

1. Minimal permissions on my data to limit the risk of exploitation
2. For free and preferably Open Source 

After carefully checking EventForm, Form Director, Booking Calendar, I decided to turn to some Vibe coding with Cursor AI and to create my very own, slim and Open Source Google Forms Even Sign-Up add-on. In my opinion, in this day and age it is so simple to create new software that for many use cases it is easier to ask an AI to write the software I really want to have than compromise on existing tools.

In the end, I spent my time like this:

1. 10% creating the actual app
2. 20% setting up GitHub repo and scripts to automate the "deployment"
3. 70% forth and back with Google about the validation for the OAuth2 consent screen and Google Workspace marketplace listing 🤪

Which shows that the AI helped me to cut down the actual development time and focus more on all the things that need to happen between writing the tool and publishing it as an add-on for everybody to use. Maybe some day AI will also help with that.

Want help with automating tedious tasks? Tektit Consulting and I are happy to support you in your automation journey, both around Google Workspace and everywhere else.