This is becoming a tiring pattern.
I've just gotten used to the UI.
Can anyone commit to building a proper business? Is Sustainability no longer a virtue of creating a service/application?
Sunrise is shutting down
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Re: Sunrise is shutting down
#12Submitted this to Our Incredible Journey [1] which documents a long string of services shut down post-acquisition.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bit unexpected, but I've found Outlook to be the best iOS email client these days. It's bloated and has quite a few rendering bugs, but for the basic email-as-task-list workflow pioneered by Mailbox et al I haven't come across any current players that are better. Kind of sad that the explosion of clever email and calendar apps a few years ago has collapsed into a handful that aren't as good as we used to have.
I wish there was something like it just for Calendaring though. Especially on the desktop. For email I'm already using Polymail full time and it's a hassle to have two email clients just for calendar.
What do you use for calendaring right now?
What do you wish it did?
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#14This is becoming a tiring pattern. I've just gotten used to the UI. Can anyone commit to building a proper business? Is Sustainability no longer a virtue of creating a service/application?
Its a valid question, clearly they weren't making enough money to survive as a proper business. Would you have paid more for their service? And if so enough more that the reduction in users covered the cost of operations?
One of the things that that comes up a lot with new ventures is that they don't know the answer to those questions when they start, but they do when they either die or succeed. In this case it seems that its financially feasible as a "feature" of Outlook rather than a standalone business.
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#15Once a startup gets bought, I look for alternatives. If they don't shut down, I still learned something new! But usually they do. In this case, I landed on Fantastical [1] — it's a little pricy but completely worth it. (Mac/iOS only.) [1]: https://flexibits.com/fantastical
Second this, totally worth the money and it works great.
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#16I'd like to say THANK YOU to the Sunrise team for the incredible work you've put into the app! You've made my calendar experience very enjoyable and I know that you got a proper reward for that as part of the acquisition.
It's great that there are people like you, working on software these days.
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#17I'd like to say THANK YOU to the Sunrise team for the incredible work you've put into the app! You've made my calendar experience very enjoyable and I know that you got a proper reward for that as part of the acquisition. It's great that there are people like you, working on software these days.
They don't deserve any thanks for remorselessly fucking over their users.
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#18Once a startup gets bought, I look for alternatives. If they don't shut down, I still learned something new! But usually they do. In this case, I landed on Fantastical [1] — it's a little pricy but completely worth it. (Mac/iOS only.) [1]: https://flexibits.com/fantastical
> it's a little pricy
We should appreciate when its pricey. That's motivation for the product to continue to exist. Otherwise, "OurIncredibleJourney".
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#19I'd like to say THANK YOU to the Sunrise team for the incredible work you've put into the app! You've made my calendar experience very enjoyable and I know that you got a proper reward for that as part of the acquisition. It's great that there are people like you, working on software these days.
They don't deserve any thanks for remorselessly fucking over their users.
Their users don't deserve anything as they were enjoying the use of a free product. They've given everyone a good amount of notice to move on.
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#20That's why paying for mail, calendar and contacts hosting is worth it in the long run.