Sorry that iOS was unreliable Re: available keyboards, we've found this too and will be sure to let Apple know.

Any further feedback please leave here or reach out to us: hi [at] onin [dot] co, we'd love to hear it.

Thanks again!

It's not so much about moving all your conversations to Onin though: it's about using us as your personal and social calendar. We support showing/editing your existing calendar events in-app too so there's zero switching cost to trying us.

With this in mind, we've found this feature set to be very compelling with our non-technical friends and family who are on the private beta.

Sorry for the multiple edits :)

Ryan here (co-founder of YC-backed Muzz). I’m now building Onin, an end-to-end encrypted calendar and chat app that makes organising your personal and social life simple and secure.

I’ve been building technology businesses for 10+ years and have witnessed the reoccurring problem that digital calendars were built for companies, not people. They feel cold, transactional, and anti-social — not the thing of dreams for planning your personal life. They also lack the security we now come to expect from consumer products.

Onin is the first calendar to be fully E2EE, protecting not just your events, but your messages and even your profile. Unlike existing E2EE calendars, you cannot share Onin events to others without the protection of E2EE. When you consider how much personal information your calendar stores about you and your loved ones’ lives, we think this is essential.

With such a focus on security and privacy, it’s only fitting that we host our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service on GitHub to be as transparent as possible with our users.

But beyond security, how is Onin so different?

Our research found that 84% of events are planned entirely in chats. But our calendars are disconnected from these conversations, leaving our schedules constantly out of sync.

To fix this, we’ve collapsed and combined calendar and chat into one secure app, eliminating the fragmentation between events and the conversations that form them.

Some of our unique features include:

- Calendar keyboard: Access your calendar from within the chat

- Event chats: Creating a new event generates a dedicated chat

- Just phone numbers: No more searching for your friend’s email

- End-to-end encryption: All our events and chats are E2EE, even your profile too

Onin is proudly the world’s most private calendar by default:

- End-to-end encrypted events, profiles, and messages

- Two-Factor Authentication required

- Chat without revealing your phone number

- (Coming soon) Your unique link to invite people, no need to share your number

We’re exactly 4 weeks away from launching the public beta to our waitlist community. You can check out all the features we have coming here and join too at the link above.

I’d love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!

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Our stack:

* Serverless (Lambda, DynomoDB, API gateway) * Node * React * Apollo GraphQL

We're building something BIG.

I wish we could tell you upfront what it is but we're in stealth. We can say if you love consumer applications and collaborative tools, we're your bag...

We're a small team of fun-loving, hardworking, software fanatics. We’re open and try new things with enthusiasm. And we’re high-momentum, focused on delivering magical products that our users love as much as we do. We socialise as a team at least once a month (currently via Zoom!).

Our CEO is Ryan Brodie, who co-founded muzmatch (YC S17) and has 3 successful exits.

We had somewhere to call home in a central London WeWork but since lockdown we're thinking about going fully remote with frequent company away days instead. What do you think?

We keep things simple and iterate fast, we use the best possible technology and tooling to realise our goals and improve our understanding.

Every hire, from our first to (one day) thousandth, gets generous equity. Everyone should consider this to be theirs as much as anyone else's. If you're not passionately arguing what you believe is best for our product, you might not be thinking as deeply as we do about our work.

We're hiring for engineering and product roles. If you want a job that doesn't feel like work, we'd love to hear from you. → ryan@onin.co

Our stack:

* Serverless (Lambda, DynomoDB, API gateway) * Node * React * Apollo GraphQL

We're building something BIG.

I wish we could tell you upfront what it is but we're in stealth. We can say if you love consumer applications and collaborative tools, we're your bag...

We're a small team of fun-loving, hardworking, software fanatics. We’re open and try new things with enthusiasm. And we’re high-momentum, focused on delivering magical products that our users love as much as we do. We socialise as a team at least once a month.

Our CEO is Ryan Brodie, who co-founded muzmatch (YC S17) and has 3 successful exits.

We had somewhere to call home in a central London WeWork but since lockdown we're thinking about going fully remote with frequent company away days instead. What do you think? We keep things simple and iterate fast, we use the best possible technology and tooling to realise our goals and improve our understanding.

Every hire, from our first to (one day) thousandth, gets generous equity. Everyone should consider this to be theirs as much as anyone else's. If you're not passionately arguing what you believe is best for our product, you might not be thinking as deeply as we do about our work.

We're hiring for engineering and product roles. If you want a job that doesn't feel like work, we'd love to hear from you.

→ ryan@onin.co

Our stack:

* Serverless (Lambda, DynomoDB, API gateway)

* Node

* React

* Apollo GraphQL

We're building something BIG.

I wish we could tell you upfront what it is but we're in stealth. We can say if you love consumer applications and collaborative tools, we're your bag...

We're a small team of fun-loving, hardworking, software fanatics. We’re open and try new things with enthusiasm. And we’re high-momentum, focused on delivering magical products that our users love as much as we do. We socialise as a team at least once a month.

Our CEO is Ryan Brodie, who co-founded muzmatch (YC S17) and has 3 successful exits.

We had somewhere to call home in a central London WeWork but since lockdown we're thinking about going fully remote with frequent company away days instead. What do you think?

We keep things simple and iterate fast, we use the best possible technology and tooling to realise our goals and improve our understanding.

Every hire, from our first to (one day) thousandth, gets generous equity. Everyone should consider this to be theirs as much as anyone else's. If you're not passionately arguing what you believe is best for our product, you might not be thinking as deeply as we do about our work.

We're hiring for engineering and product roles. If you want a job that doesn't feel like work, we'd love to hear from you.

→ ryan@onin.co

We're building something BIG.

I wish we could tell you upfront what it is but we're in stealth. We can say if you love consumer applications and collaborative tools, we're your bag...

We're a small team of fun-loving, hardworking, software fanatics. We’re open and try new things with enthusiasm. And we’re high-momentum, focused on delivering magical products that our users love as much as we do. We socialise as a team at least once a month.

Our CEO is Ryan Brodie, who co-founded muzmatch (YC S17) and has 3 successful exits.

We had somewhere to call home in a central London WeWork but since lockdown we're thinking about going fully remote with frequent company away days instead. What do you think?

We keep things simple and iterate fast, we use the best possible technology and tooling to realise our goals and improve our understanding.

Every hire, from our first to (one day) thousandth, gets generous equity. Everyone should consider this to be theirs as much as anyone else's. If you're not passionately arguing what you believe is best for our product, you might not be thinking as deeply as we do about our work.

We're hiring for engineering and product roles. If you want a job that doesn't feel like work, we'd love to hear from you.

→ ryan@onin.co