Ask HN: Scrybe invite?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1729172

by DanielBMarkham • 16 years ago

2 6 16 years ago

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Sorry to ask such a trivial thing, but I'm researching online calendaring today, and Scrybe looks really good. Anybody here using the beta and could hook me up with an invite?

jasonlbaptiste2• 16 years ago

Are they still working on it? It's literally been in beta since 2006.

DanielBMarkham2• 16 years ago

The site is still up, and the forums are active. Beats me.

I spent about 20 minutes researching them. Looks like they picked up funding in 2007. Lots of rave reviews, very slick demo video on the home page, lots of users on the forums begging for new invites.

The blog hasn't had any activity for a long time now.

Beats me.

I guess that's the big difference between a real store and an online store: in a real store you can always tell if it is out of business.

I'm looking at 30boxes now. You'd think this would be simple: all I want is calendars, tasks, recurrence and sorting, being able to print them both like a DayRunner, and links/subscriptions to other calendars. Google doesn't do the task/day printing, or I'd just stick with them.

Instead I've fallen into a world of social media, flash animation, AIR, AJAX, flickr -- everything in the world except for a simple calendar. It's like asking for a fork and getting a 423-piece kitchenware set that includes a blender and gas oven.

jasonlbaptiste2• 16 years ago

This is funny to me too. There are a million and one calendars/todo lists,etc. yet all I want is something a little bit above a plain white page / text editor. Nothing fancy, nothing crazy.

kolo32• 16 years ago

Try http://www.teknobites.com/2008/08/13/scrybe-invites/

DanielBMarkham2• 16 years ago

I tried 4 times to leave a new comment, but the site keeps crashing. Strange. I tried 3 times with the HN link, then switched browsers and tried on a fresh link. No go.

I'm finding lots of people begging for invites. Very strange business model. Show something cool, then prevent people from signing up. Many of the comments I've browsed are some pretty pissed people.

UPDATE: I went over to the Scribe forums and tried again there. That seems like it might work http://iscrybe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=16817#16817

Saj_at_Scrybe• 16 years ago

Hello,

Scrybe is very much still active and we are currently working on our new product that is aimed at groups and organizations. Unfortunately at this time I can not quote you a time frame for when this will be available.

For the time being, the Scrybe team has moved its entire focus to this new application, and while we continue to fix any bugs or issues that may arise, there are no feature updates planned for the current offering. Although still in beta, since launch no user data has been lost and there are also no plans at this time to stop the service.

The current personal calendaring application is still in closed beta and we are not sending out any invitations, however existing Scrybe users can invite others by sharing their calendars, tasks and thoughtstreams. If you are interested in getting an account, you may want to check out our user forum that is dedicated to invitation sharing. http://iscrybe.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=6&sid=fcd5256d...

Saj

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