I used to work at Clockwise and am (was?) a common shareholder. I'm happy that many employees got to get a job at Salesforce. I'm sure it was tough to swallow some pride and recommend Reclaim, who was our strongest competitor in the space (or at least the one we talked about the most). Reclaim was acquired by Dropbox a while ago, although Dropbox wanted them to continue to run and develop the product there.

I also applaud them for not selling the data (as promised in the ToS). There was always a strong commitment to that from day 1, but I'm glad to see that wasn't an option when times got harder. Calendar data sometimes has really sensitive stuff in it, and it would have been a massive betrayal to do anything but delete it after a shutdown.

If you are interested in a more detailed piece about a company struggling in this space, I recommend Rise's shutdown announcement last year. We read this at Clockwise and unfortunately felt it in our bones. There is an ironic Clockwise callout in the piece if you can spot it.

https://www.risecalendar.com/blog/sunsetting-rise

I'm obviously not part of the decision, but I'm sorry the shutoff for users is so soon. Also, please don't revoke your Clockwise app authorization before the shutoff, since that will prevent Clockwise from cleaning up your calendar. If you want to cleanly turn off Clockwise before the shutoff, you can go through the normal deactivation process at https://www.getclockwise.com/uninstall.

It's a huge bummer for me too to have worked on something for years and then to have it suddenly vanish one day.

If you are looking to start a new company in this space, I'll gladly offer my services to talk you out of it. If any die-hard users want to make a self-hosted tool, I'm happy to give some tips from my experience. I know at least one large company has an internal tool like Clockwise's autopilot/flexible meetings.

Salesforce has lost half its market cap in the last ~year. Spending time and money to acquire a calendar scheduler shows just how badly they have lost the plot.

I know this is an HN meme but can someone look at https://www.getclockwise.com/overview and explain why an internal team couldn't build this in a couple of weeks? And it's not like Salesforce is lacking engineers - they employ 83,000 (!!) people globally.

> it has been our mission to help the world make time for what matters. We've built a business to be proud of

There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by Saleforce's money truck.

Salesforce seems to be doing a shutdown of many of their "pre-AI" products.[1]

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/controlled-demolition-salesfo...

sorry in advance to their employees as they go up against the value buzzsaw that is Salesforce as an acquirer. i have years of firsthand experience, and there was not a single win in my entire tenure there.

seems like a rather short time frame considering they are just deleting the data, links, calendar events, past invoices, etc.?

hopefully no one paying for their service decided to take a 1 week vacation starting tomorrow.

I think this is the first time I've seen a cookies pop-up that only offered an "Allow All" option and nothing else. Accept our cookies or go away, I guess.

Why would a company acquire the other one just to shut it down?

i wish i had insights into the minds of the MBAs that make decisions like this

Interesting tool, but it seems to be more of a feature than a product.

Hope they enjoy working on Java code... Forever... With 3 month release cycles, no CD... LOL