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After two months of intense polish, website redesign, user studies, and more polish we've finally made it to Product Hunt. I've primed my friends, gathered seed voters core, prepared the website, scheduled the publication, made a dozen updates to the post. I've ordered a new showcase video from my friend Polina. My other friend Slava, contributed two sound effects for the app.

I can't thank my friends and followers enough for all their support. I wouldn't make it without them. I have mixed feelings about this, as it's a great day for me, but also the launch happens in the time when the oppressed fight for their rights. I've decided to launch, as I don't see calmer time in the near future, and I need to build an income to live.

After a month of waiting – we've got featured. Got more than 300 website visitors in 48 hours, and around 47 signups. We were lucky to hear some nice words along with valuable feedback (we're lacking Google calendar integration for now ;) )

This was a refreshing and motivating event!

I left my job at JUXT and finished the minimal viable version of the calendar is done. This took a few months and around six iterations to get it going. It's all done in Clojure[Script] with which I feel incredibly productive. Seriously, Clojure rocks. In the meantime I've published some of my code at GitHub, so if you're building a PWA in Clojure – you might find it useful.
https://github.com/spacegangster/page-renderer

Why are we humans keep using those table calendars? They don't make any sense in our new virtual world. Don't get me wrong, they are useful, they pack data efficiently, but at the same time they were made for the limitations of a physical medium (usually paper), weren't they?

Myself I perceive time as a stream. What if I could unfold that?