Interesting tool, but it seems to be more of a feature than a product.
speaking of, Dropbox bought a similar product a couple of years ago https://reclaim.ai/
speaking of, Reclaim is the company TFA recommends Clockwise customers migrate to
Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
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Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then don't lie! Maybe instead they could say: > it has been our mission to forever protect our families from any financial misfortune. We hoped we could help the world make time for what matters along the way, but ultimately money comes first. There's nothing wrong with selling out and getting rich. There's no need to lie about it.
Well, that might have never happened. And don't we all do it for our families primarily.
I do it for my bookie
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#23Why would a company acquire the other one just to shut it down?
Other than directly cancelling a competing product, it's usually to acquire the staff. Bit like the football transfer market, but you can buy Marcus Rashford separately without having to buy the whole of Man U.
Yea, until they leave as soon as they can because working at Salesforce is nothing like a startup
These acquihires seem so ineffective to me unless the acquiring company is truly attractive to the acquirees talent.
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#24Salesforce 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.
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#25Salesforce 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.
Clockwise has thousands of companies using it already.
Buying the company gives them those customers. They shut it down presumably so they can do something with those customers they bought.
Making software is easy. Don’t kid yourself. If you’re a swe you’re an expense line item. Getting distribution is hard.
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#26Salesforce 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.
Clockwise has thousands of companies using it already. Buying the company gives them those customers. They shut it down presumably so they can do something with those customers they bought. Making software is easy. Don’t kid yourself. If you’re a swe you’re an expense line item. Getting distribution is hard.
Just shutting it down seems like the worst way to keep the customers. They'd be better off rebranding it as Salesforce Clockwise and then slowly transitioning them.
I suspect it's more of an acquihire.
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#27Salesforce 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.
Is the Clockwise founder mates with anyone in Salesforce?
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#28Salesforce 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.
Is the Clockwise founder mates with anyone in Salesforce?
Probably. The Clockwise folks were from a startup that was bought out by Salesforce before they left to do this.
IMHO, the problem with Clockwise is that there was never a compelling product or a moat they could build with in the space. It was trivial for Google or anyone else to just implement similar enhancements.
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#29I 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.
Re: Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
#30i wish i had insights into the minds of the MBAs that make decisions like this