They basically locked themselves away in Belgium and worked on the version 1 day in and day out.Ī few months and a successful visa applications later, the initial version was available in the App Store: The two co-founders had to move back to Europe while they were applying for a new American visa. Default apps were too powerful.Īnd then, visa issues got in the way. Y Combinator eventually rejected them, saying that a calendar app would never replace the default calendar app on your phone. They flew to San Francisco and pitched in front of multiple Y Combinator partners. Later that fall, they applied to Y Combinator and got to the interview phase. They eventually left and later teamed up with Joey Dong to work on the iOS app. They both were already thinking about leaving Foursquare and turning Sunrise into a native app. Back in October 2012, Valade was working at Foursquare with Jeremy Le Van. There were even a few articles about them here and there. Thousands of people signed up to the Sunrise newsletter. And yet, the default calendar app on iOS 6 hasn’t functionally changed much since then. The iPhone was a tiny 4-inch device (if you had bought the newly introduced iPhone 5), only Microsoft cared about flat design at the time. And it looked like this compared to the default Calendar app: Your event descriptions already included LinkedIn profiles so that you could learn more about the people you were going to meet today. There was a sunrise emoji in the email subject line so you’d spot it more easily in your inbox. Every morning, you’d receive a newsletter with all your calendar events of the day.Įven though it was a pretty basic product, the design was already polished. You could sign up to the Sunrise website by linking you Google Calendar account. In October 2012, shortly after Hurricane Sandy hit New York, I met up with Pierre Valade in a coffee shop near Columbus Circle because Lower Manhattan was still in the middle of a multi-day power outage. Today sounds like a good time for a post-mortem on Sunrise. Let’s break down what made Sunrise great. While there are many mobile calendar apps out there, none of them come close to Sunrise as they’re not as polished and well-designed. I’ve been looking for a good replacement for a few months. Servers will keep running until more Sunrise features are ported over to Outlook’s calendar feature, then they’ll shut down. Update: Sunrise isn’t shutting down just yet. Today, the team is shutting down the servers and you won’t be able to use Sunrise as your calendar app anymore. Men wear the traditional 'mundu' along with khadi shirts.It’s no secret, I loved Sunrise. People usually wear their best clothes on this day and women love to adorn themselves with gold ornaments.
People distribute coins among the poor on this day.People also visit temples offering prayers on this day.Later children burst fire crackers and new clothes and money are given as gifts to friends and relatives as blessings by elders of the family.This is called Kanji and is prepared with high quality rice, coconut milk and condiment spices. A special type of rice is prepared for this occasion.A meal usually consists of rice, sambar, chips, pickle, aviyal, rasam and different varieties of sweets and payasams. A special feast called 'sadya' is prepared keeping in mind all flavours that should be equally present in the meal.The holy text of Ramayan is recited during the puja and the common belief among Malayalees is that the recital would have its sacred effects on all family members.A special yellow flower named Konna is a must in the Kani.Family members are supposed to view these things first when they get up from sleep. The mother of the family arranges Visukkani which consists of cucumber, rice, arecanuts, betel leaves, gold ornaments, new clothes, a holy granth, coins in a silver cup, mangoes, jackfruit, metal mirror,fresh lemon long with a lit metal lampĪlongside.People start with early morning prayers at dawn on this auspicious day.People take a lot of care in fulfilling the rituals so as to bring prosperity and It marks the beginning of new hopes and aspirations and is celebrated widely all across the state. The day of Vishu is the most important day in a Keralite's life. It signifies the equinox according to the solar calendar and falls usually in the second week of April according to theĮnglish calendar. Vishu is the first day of the Medam month as per Malayalam calendar and is the beginning of Meda Rashi, the first zodiac sign.