We built Solstice because we were tired of not looking at the month.
Every day, billions of humans move through time without pausing to acknowledge its shape. They open apps stuffed with notifications. They swipe through infinite feeds. They schedule meetings inside black-box calendar UIs that were designed to extract engagement, not cultivate awareness.
We believe a calendar should be rendered — not consumed. It should arrive as a grid of days, quiet and unadorned, and it should remind you that you are here, that the week has structure, that months have boundaries.
Solstice is not a productivity tool. It is a presence tool. We render time in its most honest form: a simple, beautiful grid of numbers. Nothing more. Everything less.
This is mindful time awareness. This is Solstice.
Every flag is a meditation on how you relate to time.
The -1 flag displays exactly one month. The current month. Your month. No past. No
future. Just now.
With -3, render three months spanning past, present, and future — Solstice's
signature context window for the contemplative user.
The -y flag renders an entire year at once. Twelve months. Three hundred sixty-five
(or six) possibilities. One breathtaking grid.
The -m flag sets Monday as the week's first day. For those who believe weekends
belong at the end — where they're earned.
The -j flag renders days as their ordinal position in the year — day 1 through 366.
See time not as dates, but as distance traveled.
Use -n NUM to render any number of consecutive months. Because sometimes context
requires more than a triptych.
Four steps to reclaim your relationship with temporality.
Open your terminal. Type the command. No arguments needed — Solstice knows you want the current month.
Add flags to express your temporal philosophy. -m for European sensibilities.
-j for ordinal thinkers. -3 for contextual beings.
Solstice renders your calendar grid to stdout. Clean rows. Aligned columns. Today highlighted. Nothing else.
Look at the grid. Locate today. Notice where you are in the week, the month, the year. That pause? That's the product.
How much time do you deserve to see?
For the mindful minimalist.
Past, present, and future — unlocked.
Unlimited temporal vision.
-y)"I used to open Google Calendar six times a day. Now I run one command and I just... know where I am. Solstice gave me temporal sovereignty."
"The ordinal day view changed my life. When someone asks me the date, I say 'Day 147.' They look confused. I look enlightened."
"We replaced Notion calendars, Fantastical, and two project management tools with Solstice. Our team's relationship with time has never been more honest."
"I set Monday as my first day of the week and suddenly I understood what the Europeans have known for centuries. Weekends are earned, not assumed."
Render time. Right now.
CEO & Co-Founder
Former Stripe engineer who realized calendars shouldn't have a feed. Left fintech to build presence tech.
CTO & Co-Founder
Contributed to util-linux before it was cool. Once rendered a calendar so beautiful a designer cried.
Head of Temporal Design
Believes grids are the purest form of information architecture. Has opinions about column alignment.Your phone's calendar is an engagement platform. It optimizes for notifications, invitations, and time-blocking. Solstice renders a grid of days. That's it. The difference is philosophical.
Of course. Pass a month and year as arguments. Solstice supports the full Gregorian and Julian calendar systems. You can even view September 1752, where 11 days were historically removed.
Instead of rendering dates like "March 15," Solstice's -j flag renders days as their
position in the year — day 74. It's a different way of experiencing temporal distance, and our
users find it profoundly clarifying.
You're not paying for the renderer. You're paying for the permission to see more than one month at a time. Temporal awareness at scale requires institutional support.
No. Solstice outputs to stdout. It does not integrate with anything. That is the entire point.
Join the waitlist for early access to Solstice. We'll reach out when it's your time.
No spam. No notifications. Just a quiet email when we're ready.
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This is a fictional startup. No real social accounts exist — but if they did, we'd only post once a month. On the first.