Move fast when you can

Welcome to Rework, a podcast by thirty seven Signals about the better way to work and run your business. I'm Kimberly Rhodes from the thirty seven Signals team joined as always by the cofounders, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansen. Well, we are often talking about the importance of moving quickly when it comes to software development. We recently released a new feature in HeyCalendar that happened so quickly even I was surprised by how quickly things happened. I thought we would talk a little bit about that. Jason, why don't you kind of talk us through this is a HeyCalendar feature, What the feature is, kind of how the inspiration started and the process. And then, David, I'm sure we have technical things to add as well. Yeah. So rewinding, I remember on Twitter or x, someone mentioned posted this, like, full year calendar. But with the full year, but only showing spanned events, which is like a vacation or, like, a birthday or something that doesn't have a time. And I saw that, and I'm like, that's really clever layout. It's, like, very useful and helpful, and it's nice that there's not, like, appointments on here because you don't need to see your appointments eight months in advance. But, like, span stuff is just really easy to see, and you can kinda get a sense of, like, your weekend and what's going on or whatever. Across the whole year, like, one big picture. Yeah. And I just thought it was pretty cool. And so I mentioned it in our HEY project that I thought this is cool. I shared the the the post on x, and I just said this we like, we should do this. This is cool or something like that. And I kinda, like, left it there. And the next day, Michelle Michelle was somewhere else around the world. She's always somewhere else around the world, and she's one of our designers. And so when I said it, like, I went to bed and she was up and she just did it, in basically overnight and put it together pretty quickly, which was pretty great. She worked on the hey calendar also, so she was kinda familiar with the code base and how it was all laid out. So she built this thing, like, in one night. And, that was very exciting because I felt like there's this momentum gathering online about this idea that this guide posted. There's a lot of posts about it. Like, people are like, oh my god. Yeah. Totally. We should have this or my calendar should have this, or why don't we have this? And so I felt like it was this really nice sort of call and response kinda moment where it's like someone just said something. It's like, okay. We have twenty four hours to answer the call, and this will be a great moment. It's a new year, full year calendar, looking ahead, like, perfect timing, …