One founder. One reference client. One mission.
Built by someone who kept watching studios use the wrong tools.
Slotted was built by Alex Stanin after seeing the same pattern over and over: studios and other time-based businesses were forcing retail storefronts, calendar apps, waiver tools, and spreadsheets to behave like booking infrastructure.
Alex's background spans psychology, law, computer science, design, and production code. After years building high-traffic products and design systems, the pattern was still obvious: businesses selling time were being asked to stitch together tools that were never meant to run bookings as an operation.
Slotted exists to solve that specific mess. Availability, intake, payments, waivers, and overage billing belong in one system. It is not trying to become generic small-business software. It is built for businesses that sell scheduled time and need the operational rules to work together.
35MM Studio was the first.
Houston's photo studio that helped shape how Slotted works.
Before Slotted, 35MM Studio was running on Shopify plus Easy Appointment Booking. That stack could take money and expose a booking calendar, but it could not actually model how the studio operated day to day.
There was no real room-level availability, no serious intake flow, no embedded waivers, and no clean way to charge for overtime when a session ran long. The business had software, but the operational gaps were still being covered manually.
That transition became the foundation for Slotted. Room-based scheduling, saved-card consent, intake before arrival, waivers in-flow, and overage recovery were not abstract feature ideas. They were responses to what broke in a real studio trying to run on the wrong stack.
Not VC-funded. Not trying to be everything.
Slotted is independent and intentionally narrow. It is built for a specific kind of business: one that sells time and needs the operational side of booking to stop falling apart between tools.
- No platform fee on your bookings.
- No marketplace taking ownership of your demand.
- Your clients stay yours, and your Stripe revenue stays yours too.
See whether it fits your setup.
Start the trial if you already know the stack is wrong, or talk through your workflow first.