Compass calendar - Beautiful calendar for minimalists

👋 Hey PH! I built Compass b/c I needed a way to combine my "What" with my "Why"; one where I could plan my week but also ensure that my schedule reflected my values. After 3 months of prototyping and talking to users, I made a huge mistake: >> I focused on making a calendar << I spent so much time building the features we all expect from a calendar that I didn't innovate much. By the time the calendar was good enough to add more interesting features, my morale and runway were too low to continue. Despite never reaching product-market-fit, I did build some of the most difficult aspects of a modern productivity app, including: 🔄 2-way sync with Google Calendar 🔄 Recurring events 🕒 Display events in local time 🏷️ Tagging events 🖍️ Resizing events 🖍️ Task reordering 🖍️ Drag & drop tasks & events 🖍️ Shortcuts ✉️ Email capture 🔐 Google OAuth authentication 🔐 User session management I got pretty far, but I didn't include all the features you'd expect from a calendar app. Here are some of the main things that are missing: - Sub-calendars (only primary calendar is supported) - Sharing - Location - Reminders - Mobile app I open-sourced all the code because 1) I couldn't sell it at a price I felt good about and 2) I want more opinionated tools like this to exist. I hope my code can make speed up the dev time for future devs. I gave it a helluva shot, but I didn't make my dream calendar app. But now that my code is public, maybe you can make yours. Thanks to the MIT license, you could even fork it, add your spin to it, charge for it, and grow it into a great business. All I ask is that you let me know once it's ready so I can finally stop using my Google Calendar 🙂

At first, I wasn't totally sold. Then after hitting your landing page and scrolling a bit, I love it. Great meme/humour, solid design. Made me realise that sometimes I see people use fancy as an alternative to good. All the features look great, and I love the transparency of your launch notes "Here's the things that are missing" Congrats on the launch and love love love the name!

I really like the design! Looks really nice and thought through. Congratulations on the launch and wishing you the best of luck 😊

Congrats on the launch @tylerdane! I'm also working on building a calendar but for festival and as a mobile app so I know how hard it is. As a suggestion from a UI/UX Designer, use a contrast checker for the colors used in the calendar, most of them are not passing the minimum requirements on the dark theme to be accessible and completely readable. Good luck!

Thank you for making such a great and helpful product! Congrats on the launch!

Looks quite clean. I love solo projects, congrats man!

It's really cool that you built Compass to combine your "What" and your "Why"! It's impressive that you were able to create so many important features for a productivity app, like syncing with Google Calendar and tagging events.

Love this launch. 🚀

Congrats on your launch! I like your UI. It seems to be a free product, are you planning to charge customers?