[HN Gopher] Clockwise acquired by Salesforce and shutting down n...
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Clockwise acquired by Salesforce and shutting down next week
Author : nigelgutzmann
Score : 42 points
Date : 2026-03-19 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.getclockwise.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.getclockwise.com)
| pmdr wrote:
| > it has been our mission to help the world make time for what
| matters. We've built a business to be proud of
|
| There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by
| Saleforce's money truck.
| dmitrygr wrote:
| They have families to feed. This might forever protect their
| families from any financial misfortune. Any sane person would
| do the same. I would.
| Bnjoroge wrote:
| Sure but they dont have to act all insufferable about it
| lmao. Just say it was the best outcome not a bunch of
| bullshit
| josephg wrote:
| Then don't lie! Maybe instead they could say:
|
| > it has been our mission to forever protect our families
| from any financial misfortune. We hoped we could help the
| world make time for what matters along the way, but
| ultimately money comes first.
|
| There's nothing wrong with selling out and getting rich.
| There's no need to lie about it.
| nullorempty wrote:
| Well, that might have never happened. And don't we all do
| it for our families primarily.
| soopypoos wrote:
| I do it for my bookie
| sailingparrot wrote:
| Warms my heart to learn their families will finally be able
| to afford nutritious meals, put clothes on their backs and
| maybe even afford a bike to go to school rather than walking
| 2h everyday. We need more uplifting stories like this one.
| Thank you salesforce.
|
| Jokes aside though, many (most?) acquihires are for very
| little $. Often just founders not being able to continue and
| just wanting an honorable exit + guaranteed jobs for their
| teams.
| darth_avocado wrote:
| A valuable skill as entrepreneurs, is to know when to stop
| and move on. Recognizing what you built may not be viable
| financially long term or is no longer a fit for the market
| and then making adjustments is what good entrepreneurs do.
| Sometimes it means shutting shop, while other times it
| means getting acquired and refocusing on the path forward.
| darth_avocado wrote:
| Being proud and being acquired aren't mutually exclusive
| things. You can be proud of projects that are not viable
| financially. They are proud of what they built and are also
| moving to a place where they can continue building more.
|
| Continuing to struggle for money isn't a requirement for
| building cool stuff.
| gip wrote:
| > There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by
| Saleforce's money truck.
|
| They probably don't have much choice and Salesfore needs people
| who have built and launched products (I don't have any info,
| just a guess).
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| > There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by
| Saleforce's money truck.
|
| Worst. Isekai. Idea. Ever.
| Animats wrote:
| Salesforce seems to be doing a shutdown of many of their "pre-AI"
| products.[1]
|
| [1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/controlled-demolition-
| salesfo...
| bombcar wrote:
| Interesting tool, but it seems to be more of a feature than a
| product.
| throwaway0q5347 wrote:
| Now a feature of Salesforce :)
| shakna wrote:
| > Any Smart Hold events created by Clockwise (such as Focus
| Time, Travel Time, Meeting Breaks, and Personal Calendar
| synced events) will be removed from your calendar. Flexible
| Meetings will stop moving and the green Clockwise sparkle
| will be removed.
|
| Doesn't really sound like it.
| plasticsoprano wrote:
| speaking of, Dropbox bought a similar product a couple of years
| ago https://reclaim.ai/
| fsckboy wrote:
| speaking of, Reclaim is the company TFA recommends Clockwise
| customers migrate to
| john_strinlai wrote:
| seems like a rather short time frame considering they are just
| deleting the data, links, calendar events, past invoices, etc.?
|
| hopefully no one paying for their service decided to take a 1
| week vacation starting tomorrow.
| samothrace wrote:
| I think this is the first time I've seen a cookies pop-up that
| only offered an "Allow All" option and nothing else. Accept our
| cookies or go away, I guess.
| dinamic wrote:
| Why would a company acquire the other one just to shut it down?
| pjc50 wrote:
| Other than directly cancelling a competing product, it's
| usually to acquire the staff. Bit like the football transfer
| market, but you can buy Marcus Rashford separately without
| having to buy the whole of Man U.
| dozerly wrote:
| Yea, until they leave as soon as they can because working at
| Salesforce is nothing like a startup
|
| These acquihires seem so ineffective to me unless the
| acquiring company is truly attractive to the acquirees
| talent.
| paxys wrote:
| Salesforce has lost half its market cap in the last ~year. The
| fact that they are spending time and money to acquire a _calendar
| scheduler_ shows just how badly they have lost the plot.
|
| I know this is an HN meme but can someone look at
| https://www.getclockwise.com/overview and explain why an internal
| team shouldn't be able to build this in a couple of weeks? And
| it's not like the company is lacking engineers - they employ
| 83,000 people globally (!!)
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