I don’t see this as a good thing. HelloSign was acquired by DropBox and is basically a stagnant has-been, and their security incident doesn’t give me confidence that acquisitions are in good hands there either given the lack of a transparent root cause analysis.
Congratulations on your success. Reclaim.ai has been an incredibly valuable tool for me and my work.
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.
I appreciate the candor, and the support for Reclaim.
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 :)
Yeah, its kind of a bummer. Dropbox doesn't really have a cohesive vision for their productivity suite? Dropbox Paper doesn't seem to have progressed and there haven't been any other notable new products released.
Out of Dropbox's long history of acquisitions, very few of the products from said acquisitions have survived. Did this factor into your decision to join Dropbox and if so how did you weigh that risk?
> 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.
Several years ago, facing the problem that Reclaim.ai started off solving (cross-calendar sync), I started exploring Google's Calendar API and MS's O365 API for the same. Pretty quickly figured out this wasn't side project-sized and dropped it, so I've been happy to give Reclaim my money in the years past!
A few weeks ago I got the chance to check out the Google Calendar API for the first time and was very impressed how thorough it is.
- 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.
Seriously! I've tried a few times off and on and it just isn't something to tackle without having a ton of time and effort and stamina and stubbornness. And then still likely failing.
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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 :)
So much for any questions
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?
Dead Comment
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.