Am I the only one that thinks anyone could hack up something like that in a few hours tops? I mean I can't because I'm lazy and don't do anything with my slack status to begin with, but still.
It's one thing to implement something. It's another thing to implement it in a way that makes other people want to use it.
Outside this bubble, rsync and git and cron are not solutions to syncing your files across devices. Outside this bubble, people just want a solution to the problem, not a box of parts to construct their own solution to the problem from 2nd principles.
…Also, people tend to want this inside the bubble too :-)
https://slack.com/app-pages/google-calendar
This is not robust cross-platform syncing of huge files on flaky networks. This is looking for the the word "dog" in your calendar and changing the emoji to a dog.
The user you replied to is (I assume) suggesting someone else can make a recreation of the service and give it away. i.e. not suggesting everyone hack together their own implementation
It strikes me that there's a positive correlation between executive pay, and the user-hostility of the resulting product. Firefox (and derivatives) is my daily driver, but I despise the company that makes it. They made their name by being a lightweight, standards-compliant fast browser. I don't know how the company became such a pile of sh*, but I find it credible that excessive executive pay has more than a little to do with it.
<edit> the other comments here are also calling this out as a hiring effort.
Not worth a mention on HN, IMO. </edit>
I've got mine set up in make.com but you could use Zapier or probably any other automation tool that supports triggering on your timer status. Chucked it together in 5 min or so.
Of course this Pulse probably does a bit more than that (cue dropbox comment), but that's all I wanted.
I'm pretty sure Slack can already sync with your calendar meetings using this app if that's all you're needing https://slack.com/app-pages/google-calendar
Like most apps 95% of it is probably trivial, and then there's that 5% where you spend almost all of your time. In this case it's probably the integrations with other services and making a system that enables users to glue them together with rules in an intuitive way. That is not simple, especially if you're trying to work with lots of third parties rather than just the big ones.
You probably could hack together a working app in very short amount of time, but that's true of everything. Making it robust, secure, user-friendly, and maintainable is where the value lies, and that takes time.
> the company had apparently garnered some fairly big-name customers, including Netflix and 1Password, with monthly premium plans starting at around $3 per user
Sounds like the want the team not the tech anyway
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818297.