Calendar

Productivity

calendar app

SHOW HN2011

18points
16comments
#534of 1,097 in 2011
Top 49%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.

Execution: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Design described as elegant

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN
  • Friends and family found it very useful

    From 1 comment
    • When the Mac App Store came out, we had a simple idea: we wanted to bring easy access to the calendar from the menubar to MacOS, just like Windows has easy access from the system…
      EGreg on HN

Objections

  • App fails to open with a 'damaged' error, so it was pulled from the store

    From 2 comments
    • Just installed it, and it doesn't even open. I pretty much the exact same experience as the only review the app has as of right now ( the one star ). I like the idea, it's really…
      bjg on HN
    • Thanks guys. Listen ... I had to pull this app's availability on the app store, because almost everyone is getting the following message: "Calendar.app" is damaged and can't be…
      EGreg on HN
  • Menubar space not used as efficiently as competitors

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN
  • Per-calendar event count under the date is unnecessary

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN

Requests

  • Fix the crash on launch

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN
  • Option to replace the system clock in the menubar

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN
  • Global keyboard shortcut

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN

Questions

  • Is the app available outside the US?

    From 1 comment
    • Is this app available outside the states? I can't open the link from Italy and the App Store doesn't redirect me to the right one.
      oscardelben on HN
  • Which receipt filename is correct, receipt or Receipt?

    From 1 comment
    • yeah. But the weird part is that we were testing for exactly that! Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt and returning 173. Now we are going to be looking for that, and if not found, try…
      EGreg on HN

Alternatives named

  • iStat

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN
  • MenuCalendarClock

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats on the launch! Since I assume you wanted some feedback.. 1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they…
      greattypo on HN

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