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Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by bhtru » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:53 AM UTC

rbut wrote: post #27

mediumdeviation wrote: post #17

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Wait, are you Peter Molyneux the game designer of Fable fame, or do you just happen to have the same name?

Considering it says "By Peter Molyneux, Sweden", I'd say he just has the same name. Peter Molyneux the game designer, is from the UK.

You're right on the money. It's not the British Molyneux of game design fame but rather a fellow from Sweden. The whois of oneviewcalender.com shows he's definitely from Sweden & lives in Sweden. I won't go any further with the doxxing though. He also owns slidecalender.com too - which I is a less apt name than oneviewcalender.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by bakul » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:53 AM UTC

Very nice!

One suggestion is to auto arrange to different number of columns based on the current time unit. Though zooming would get weird -- it would have folding/unfolding effect or snaky undulations! Not sure if this is possible but such "zooming" can have other uses....

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by gorkemyurt » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:53 AM UTC

elmigranto wrote: post #54

WWKong wrote: post #42

Beautiful. How do you build something like this? Coding language? Stack? Dev environment?

Yes, all of those don't really matter. You just fire up whatever and start building the damn thing.

well in this case I think it does.. Animating this many DOM elements in a performant way would be really hard. Looks like the webapp is rendered in a element. I think its a better discussion than 'which js framework should I use?'

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by hacksonx » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:55 AM UTC

chris_overseas wrote: post #59

This looks very promising, with a few improvements I can easily see this as my preferred calendar app. Feedback: Is it possible to selectively enable/disable individual calendars? I have a "birthday" calendar from a large social network that results in multiple birthdays each day completely dominating the calendar. If I can't turn that off, it's virtually unusable for me unfortunately. I tried to assign up for the An…

Selecting a calendar allows you to access checkboxes that allow you to disable/enable subcalenders such as national holidays, birthdays and the main calendar.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by annnnd » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:59 AM UTC

kome wrote: post #56

copperx wrote: post #39

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I'm not trying to be negative, but I disagree. It's deeply unsettling.

Respice post te. Hominem te memento.

Translation for us lesser humans: "Look after you [to the time after your death] and remember you're [only] a man.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by petermolyneux » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:59 AM UTC

epaga wrote: post #44

petermolyneux wrote: post #3

Hi all. Just wanted to show you my latest side project (been working on it for a couple of years now). It's a calendar app with a twist. It's developed as a web app, thats wy it could be integrated directly on the landing page. It can also be run on any device directly from http://app.oneviewcalendar.com Instead of the traditional monthview and day view I have used a timeline that is zoomable and scrollable. Give it…

Beautifully done. I have had this exact idea for years as well and you basically took the dream app I was going to build "Some Day" and seem to have nailed the execution. Bittersweet feeling for me. ;-) Hope this becomes hugely successful!

Oh, Sorry friend I know that feeling. We should of teamed up ;)

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by petermolyneux » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 6:00 AM UTC

hackney wrote: post #23

petermolyneux wrote: post #3

Hi all. Just wanted to show you my latest side project (been working on it for a couple of years now). It's a calendar app with a twist. It's developed as a web app, thats wy it could be integrated directly on the landing page. It can also be run on any device directly from http://app.oneviewcalendar.com Instead of the traditional monthview and day view I have used a timeline that is zoomable and scrollable. Give it…

As long as I can download it direct and not be tied to the playstore I'd love to try it out. I'm currently using the free version of acalendar atm.

I could give you the apk. Send me an email and we'll do it that way.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by petermolyneux » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 6:02 AM UTC

chris_overseas wrote: post #59

This looks very promising, with a few improvements I can easily see this as my preferred calendar app. Feedback: Is it possible to selectively enable/disable individual calendars? I have a "birthday" calendar from a large social network that results in multiple birthdays each day completely dominating the calendar. If I can't turn that off, it's virtually unusable for me unfortunately. I tried to assign up for the An…

Great, sorry it took some time. I wasn't really ready for all this response :)

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by nojvek » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 6:04 AM UTC

petermolyneux wrote: post #66

epaga wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beautifully done. I have had this exact idea for years as well and you basically took the dream app I was going to build "Some Day" and seem to have nailed the execution. Bittersweet feeling for me. ;-) Hope this becomes hugely successful!

Oh, Sorry friend I know that feeling. We should of teamed up ;)

The execution is awesome. So smooth. What are you using for the nice animations and transitions? Is it available on iOS?

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by petermolyneux » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 6:05 AM UTC

DigitalJack wrote: post #55

Very slick. But something seems wrong with the two finger zoom (or I misunderstand it). It zooms, but it also scrolls a little... so the thing I was looking at will go off screen. For example if I have Sunday the 10th at the top of the screen, and I two finger scroll/zoom, I'm preplexed why the date at the top shifts to earlier or later dates. This happens both directions. Maybe it's intentional, but it's unexpected…

Hi, I will try it out again. The zooming and scrolling should have been done to perfection, but maybe I've missed something. The two finger zoom is intended to follow your fingers vertically and ignore any horizontal movement.