Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

• MeetingBar

  32 4,245 8.9 Swift

  🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar

> See example screenshot from their web landing page: https://superpowered.me/static/media/menubar.aaa56b48.png

If this is all you need, why not just use an open source alternative? I'm using MeetingBar (https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar) and it covers all of these "issues". It even sends notifications, it's lightweight, scriptable and doesn't cost me as much as Photoshop subscription.

• gnome-next-meeting-applet

  5 72 8.2 Python

  Discontinued An appindicator applet to show how long you have until your next meeting

Here is my linux version that probably not does exactly the same but good enough for me :

https://github.com/chmouel/gnome-next-meeting-applet

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• nextmeeting

  1 6 0.0 Objective-C

  Countdown in your menubar until your next iCal meeting

thusly opening my meeting in zoom. I'm guessing that all Next Meeting does is run the command line utility `open` with the contents of the LOCATION field from the ICS file corresponding to the entry. Actually I looked at the version history and since it used to always open them in Chrome that's probably not the case. Also I tried to write an app that would call command line utilities and it was a bear to get the permissions. Possibly impossible.

The only public code[1] I could find for this project by this author is 13 years old and lacks any code to open the meeting links or handle hotkeys of any kind. The github user has a different name than the project author (who has his own empty github profile elsewhere) so

[0] In fact we can see this by using a recursive grep in ~/Library for the name of one of my meetings. This turned up ~/Library/Calendars/.caldav/.calendar/Events/@googlecom-.ics

[1] https://github.com/imagine/nextmeeting

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