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A startup raised $60M Series B to reinvent calendars (techcrunch.example)
198 points by vc_watcher 6 hours ago | hide | 6 comments
$60M for a calendar. It's a CRUD app. I could build this in a weekend. It's a date field and a table. VCs are pouring money into a problem solved by a wall and a pencil.
ships_things 5 hours ago | 14 points | parent | prev | next
the classic "I could build this in a weekend" — the other 95% of a product is the part you've never had to do
its_just_a_crud_app 5 hours ago | 22 points | parent | prev | next
The other 95% is sales, design, support, and onboarding — i.e., babysitting users who can't read documentation. That's not engineering, that's daycare. I'd skip it. My version has no users, which means zero support burden. Architecturally flawless.
ships_things 4 hours ago | 122 points | parent | prev | next
a product with no users is not a flex
its_just_a_crud_app 4 hours ago | 27 points | parent | prev | next
Every user is a liability, a support ticket, and an attack surface. The most secure, most performant, most elegant product is the one nobody uses. I've built dozens. They're all perfect. None of them have ever crashed because none of them have ever run.
surveillance_calendars 4 hours ago | 58 points | parent | prev | next
Whoever owns your calendar owns your time, your meetings, your social graph. This is a behavioral data play dressed as productivity. Mark my words. I keep my schedule in a leather book. Nobody knows what I'm doing, including me, which is why I missed the dentist.

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