Hi 👋 — you're about to trust an app with something important: your day. So here's the short version of who I am and why I built this.
Where I'm coming from
For the last 16+ years I've worked in marketing, split between big tech and gaming names (Samsung, TikTok, Ubisoft) and smaller places — SaaS startups, ad agencies. Roles changed, companies changed, tools changed.
Two things never did: email and calendar. Any meaningful work in the 21st century runs on those two rails.
For email, I eventually found Mimestream — a native macOS Gmail client. It's excellent, full recommendation.
For calendar, I never landed. Functionality was missing, or the app was slow, or the design clashed with how I think about time. I kept switching, kept paying, kept being mildly annoyed.
The pivot
Two years ago I decided to come back to something that had always pulled at me but which I'd never committed to: programming.
I started small — little fixes in web dev projects. Then I fell into the Python rabbit hole. Then one evening I looked at my Mac and thought: I'm a macOS user. Let me try Swift. Let me build something real.
I didn't have the idea yet. Then it arrived.
The idea
Build the calendar I'd been looking for. One that actually uses what macOS and Google Calendar can do:
- Real Google Meet integration
- Color-coded events the way Google intended
- Native macOS notifications
- A menu-bar widget that pulls its weight — showing the next meeting, not just the time
- And above all, a native app — not a web page pretending to be one
That's hora Calendar.
Where I am today
16,000+ lines of Swift. A Linear backlog that keeps expanding. One developer — me — shipping from Poland, in public.
If you live in Google Calendar, you use a Mac, and every existing option has let you down in some small way — give hora a shot.
Thanks for reading,
Maciej