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Measured on six things

A simple, free vacation calendar for teams to see who is away

Security

HTTPS and HSTS are in place, but the header probe found no CSP, no frame protection, no secure cookies, no DMARC — 5/13 checklist points. No SOC 2, pen-test or bug bounty signals.

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Track Vacations

About this app

Track Vacations is a free shared vacation calendar for small teams, startups, agencies and remote teams. Create a private team calendar and share it with a secret link. Team members can add days off by choosing a date or dragging across a range, and everyone can see who is away across the months ahead. Slack and Discord notifications are available when someone schedules time off. There is no account to create and nothing to install.

Key features

1Free shared vacation calendar with a private secret link — no account, nothing to install.
2Add days off by picking a date or dragging across a range; view upcoming absences across months.
3Optional Slack and Discord notifications when someone schedules time off.

Target customer profile

Drawn from the product itself, not from a survey.

Demographic

Small teams, startups, agencies and remote teams

Pain points

Teams need a quick shared way to see planned time off without maintaining an outdated spreadsheet

Primary needs

A private calendar link, simple date entry, a view of upcoming absences, and optional Slack or Discord notifications

Demographic

Team managers coordinating schedules and coverage

Pain points

Unclear who will be away when planning work and coverage

Primary needs

A shared calendar showing upcoming days off across the team

Demographic

Remote and distributed teams

Pain points

Vacation dates are scattered across chats or spreadsheets

Primary needs

One private calendar link everyone can use to view and add time off

Scout Review

Written by AI from measured evidence, scored out of 100.

Track Vacations is a focused, low-friction shared vacation calendar that solves a real coordination problem for small teams. The no-account, secret-link model is genuinely pleasant, and the add-days form is clean. The weaknesses are visible: the month-grid view needs scrolling to be useful, the demo state looks unfinished, mobile performance lags desktop, and security headers are thin. It's a competent early-stage tool with a clear use case and a thin moat.

Measure by measure

Usability

Onboarding is genuinely frictionless — no account, secret link, simple date-range form. But the create-calendar CTA and add-days form compete, and the empty employee dropdown leaves the roster flow unclear.

Design

Restrained, clean layout with a clear dark CTA and tidy form, but six stacked month cards force heavy scrolling and the empty 'Martian Schedule' section reads as unfinished placeholder.

Speed

Desktop Lighthouse 99/100 and CLS 0 are excellent; mobile 78/100 with a 3.8s LCP drags it down. Fast on a laptop, noticeably slower on a phone.

Security

HTTPS and HSTS are in place, but the header probe found no CSP, no frame protection, no secure cookies, no DMARC — 5/13 checklist points. No SOC 2, pen-test or bug bounty signals.

Accessibility

Lighthouse a11y 87/100, but buttons lack accessible names, the document has no <title>, and there's no main landmark. No a11y statement or multi-language support found.

Growth

Real, recurring pain (who's away when) with a specific wedge: free, no-account, secret-link calendar plus Slack/Discord pings. Beats a spreadsheet, but the moat is thin.

Improvement areas

Month-grid view requires heavy scrolling; no at-a-glance 'who's away' summary.
Thin security headers (no CSP, frame protection, secure cookies, DMARC) and no compliance signals.
Accessibility fails: unnamed buttons, missing page title and main landmark.

Design & Usability

The homepage is restrained and legible: generous margins, consistent card borders, and a single dark CTA that makes the primary action obvious. The add-days form is well-spaced with clear labels and one submit button. The problem is the core view — six month grids stacked in one column mean seeing who's away requires scrolling, and the empty 'Martian Schedule' section plus 'Demo' title make it look unfinished. Usability is the stronger half: no account, a secret link, and a simple date-range form is genuinely low-friction. But the create-calendar CTA and the add-days form compete for attention, and the employee dropdown gives no hint how the roster gets populated.

Speed & Security

Speed is split: desktop Lighthouse hits 99/100 with CLS 0, but mobile lands at 78/100 with a 3.8s LCP — fine on a laptop, sluggish on the phone where most people would actually check. Security is the weak spot. HTTPS and HSTS are enforced, but the header probe found no CSP, no frame protection, no secure cookies, no DMARC, and no X-Content-Type-Options — 5 of 13 checklist points. There's no SOC 2, pen-test or bug bounty signal in the collected evidence. For a tool holding team absence data behind a secret link, the link is doing most of the security work.

Accessibility & Growth

Accessibility scores 87/100 on Lighthouse but the failing audits are telling: buttons without accessible names, no document <title>, no main landmark. Those are cheap fixes with outsized impact for screen reader users. No a11y statement or multi-language support was found. Growth is the more interesting question. The problem — scattered vacation dates across chats and spreadsheets — is real and recurring, and the wedge is specific: free, no account, one secret link, optional Slack/Discord notifications. Against the listed alternative (a spreadsheet), it's a clear upgrade. The limit is defensibility: a secret link and a webhook are easy to replicate, so the idea can grow but the moat is shallow.

Conclusion

If you run a small team and your time-off tracking lives in a spreadsheet nobody updates, this is a reasonable upgrade — the friction of trying it is near zero. Just don't expect enterprise-grade security posture or a polished dashboard yet. It does one job simply, and for a free tool with no signup, that's a fair trade.

Suggestions for improvement

Add a compact 'who's away this week' summary above the month grids so the core job is visible without scrolling.
Fix the accessibility fails: give buttons accessible names, add a document <title>, and wrap content in a main landmark.
Harden security headers — add CSP, frame protection, secure cookies and DMARC — cheap wins for a link-shared tool.
Clarify the create-calendar vs. add-days flow and show the team roster in the employee dropdown.

How we score

Alternatives comparison

Named competitors, point by point. Nobody paid to appear here or to be left out.

	Track Vacations	Spreadsheets
Shared team view of upcoming time off	Dedicated calendar with month grids and a secret link	Manual spreadsheet rows; no calendar view	No data provided
Account required	No account — secret link only	Depends on spreadsheet platform (often account-based)	No data provided
Slack / Discord notifications	Built-in optional Slack and Discord notifications	None native; manual or via automation	No data provided
Pricing	Free	Free to paid depending on spreadsheet tool	No data provided