About
Raphael Schaad founded and led Cron, a calendar product acquired by Notion in 2022. At Notion, he expanded the Calendar product and served as Head of Design for Growth, while also contributing to design roles at Flipboard and iA Writer. He holds degrees in Computer Science from Bern University of Applied Sciences and Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.
Raphael Schaad @raphaelschaad
It really stinks that there’s no way to run these anymore. Even if you had an old iPhone, running an old iOS version, and if you could somehow gather the era-correct app packages of these apps — it would just be a screen full of colorful icons, wouldn’t it. They’d all crash on
Aug 2, 2026
Raphael Schaad @raphaelschaad
This was the GOLDEN era of mobile interaction design & invention (circa 2010-2014). Rdio, Path, Flipboard (worked on it for 4yrs+), Clear, Tweetbot, Mailbox, Paper. I wish there was an easy way for the current generation to run these apps and learn how EVERYTHING came to be … https://t.co/Dh35Kuo2x1
Aug 2, 2026 · ♥ 95 · ⇄ 2
Raphael Schaad @raphaelschaad
Congrats Safi on 100k GH stars! Clearly something working with Graphify … https://t.co/fXFI1jEvsH
Aug 1, 2026 · ♥ 12 · ⇄ 2
Founder CEO at CronYC W20
Intro paths
Raphael went through Y Combinator (Winter 2020) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Raphael can intro founders to Cron's investors below.