Hey.com calendar live

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By David Heinemeier Hansson.

We heard that feedback from the moment we launched HEY, but we didn’t just want to tick a box on a feature chart. If we were going to do a calendar for HEY, it had to be as interesting, inspiring, and innovative as HEY itself. So it took a while to crystalize that vision: What should a calendar look like and how should it work if you designed it from a clean sheet of paper? That’s what HEY Calendar is. A complete rethink, just like we did for email.

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roughly 72 hours after the premium email service Hey announced its latest feature — an integrated calendar — co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson received some unwelcome news from Apple: it was rejecting a standalone iOS app for Hey Calendar, because non-paying users couldn’t do anything when they opened the app up.

New users can’t sign up for Hey Calendar directly on the app — Basecamp, which makes Hey, makes users first sign up through a browser. Apple’s App Store rules require most paid services to offer users the ability to pay and sign up through the app, ensuring the company gets up to a 30 percent cut. The controversial rule has a ton of gray areas and carve-outs (i.e. reader apps like Spotify and Kindle get an exception) and is the subject of antitrust fights in multiple countries.

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