I'll admit to feeling like this will be the beginning of the end for me. I love Reclaim right now, it serves its purpose very well and stays completely out of the way whilst doing it, but I don't have any love for Dropbox or the vision for the future with Dropbox.
Maybe I'm completely wrong though and you'll pull off something great. Best of luck and congrats again.
Part of why we went with Dropbox was strong alignment for what the future of work can look like. Also because unlike many tech acquisitions, we were able to keep the entire team and product intact while continuing to invest in and pursue the long term vision we've had for Reclaim.
I hope you'll give us a chance to change your perspective in the coming years :)
Do you think Reclaim will go up market with this move? What is your vision for how Reclaim supports more organizations in the future.
And...
When you think about growth of Reclaim -- What is something you think you got right when going to market?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178442
It seems he's given up fighting it in recent years, but I doubt his view or the facts have changed, and they're worth reading.
> about Dropbox's YC application (which is what the word "app" meant back then)
But Drew Houston himself writes in the reply "most apps are written as if the disk was local". So the word "app" could definitely mean a program running on your computer as well.
- Very easy to retrieve incremental changes to events on a calendar
- Webhooks to be notified when calendars are created, updated, or removed
- Webhooks to be notified when events are added, updated, or removed on a calendar
- Bulk requests
- Select only the fields you need from the event
- Querying events in a calendar with custom properties (I use this so I don’t need to store anything on my side)
Funnily enough to build a sync between my personal calendar and work calendar, and for my wife and I to have a combined calendar for our own personal commitments. I also feed in a few calendars I subscribe to for sporting events to our shared calendar. $100 a year was a bit much for a feature that should be in Google Calendar already. I named it Don’t Double Book Me, felt appropriate.
I only started exploring the Google Calendar API recently after realizing that Reclaim’s policy allows Enterprise customers to take over other individual paying accounts associated with the Enterprise, effectively making it not really my Reclaim account anymore. Didn’t help I wasn’t notified of this either.
