Funding was cut and tappered off starting in 2008, not sure when it ended completely, but I think @slightlylate was on the board for a minute.
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Was only on the board to help wind it down
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Looking at assets, expenses, and incomings there was nothing else to do. The software was not in a place where others could have picked up much of it.
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Ambitious (but slow) portable desktop UX toolkit with SWIG baggage...custom and hard to extract DB system...brittle sync system...tons of adapters that were hard to maintain...bespoke web stack. Software curios without org to back coherent vision and direction.
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With lots of additions, and at least one internal competitor IIRC. Been a long time, have slept since then. Wanted Chandler to be great *so much*. Applied to OSAF when moving out to SF. Bittersweet to only be able to help turn off the lights.
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A bunch of us still joke around about building a calendar again, but scheduling is an incredibly hard problem and any new entrant has to deal with platform lockin from existing solutions. The tech aside, it's a monster of a problem and nobody is really close to fixing it.
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Also subject to network effects because import/export are only barely interoperable, nevermind sync. RRules and `.ics` will sink your battleship before you ever get to caldav and ical feeds.
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So the only wins go to those who can seamlessly interoperate or those who can convert whole orgs...which is daunting without orgs to learn from. Also, hooks into mail and VC apps matter bigtime.
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IDK, I've been convinced for more than a decade that the only use case we've ever focused on (workgroup scheduling) is a tiny fraction of the scheduling landscape if someone tackled consumer person-to-person scheduling and did it well.
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But it doesn’t exist in a bubble...and that’s the problem/moat.
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Related: it’s miraculous that anyone successfully uses Apple’s calendaring apps.
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I had a meeting that spanned two weeks it wouldnt let me delete, i just had to live with it until after the end date.
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