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amix

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About amix

Remote-first and async-first Founder/CEO of Doist.com (the company behind Todoist and Twist).

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amix3k

Recent public activity

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    Thank you! Starting with the Redis server is a solid choice. However, if you're aiming to support a large user base or handle many events (like billions), I highly recommend consid…

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    Comment #40605127

    If you are looking for an alternative that’s even more async than Threads, check out https://twist.com/ We (Doist) have been developing it since 2015.

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    Comment #35030765

    It was the most easiest to do I might add other sign up/login options later.

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    Comment #23953443

    William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour https://youtu.be/WEDIj9JBTC8 — An excellent crash course for the most critical concepts.

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    Comment #20915591

    I am unsure what drag and drop you are referring to, but Todoist should have full support for this. E.g., you can drag a file and add it as a task on both our Mac and Windows apps.…

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    Comment #20915579

    Hmm, these are some serious issues, and they should not be common at all. I hope you have reported them to our support team (support@todoist.com).

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    Comment #20915561

    I hope this gets improved in the October release. If not, please feel free to reach out over email (it’s in my HN profile).

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    Comment #20915529

    Todoist is fully hackable via our API https://developer.todoist.com/sync/v8/ , and your data isn’t locked in. The self-hosted solution isn’t an excellent option for a todo list as …

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    Comment #20913700

    When I develop, which unfortunately isn’t very often now, I usually try to split a project/task into smaller manageable chunks. This makes it easier for me to estimate and track wo…

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    Comment #20913051

    Most of the company are working on Todoist, and we have a big update coming in October. For the past two years, we have worked on an initiative called Todoist Foundations, which is…

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    Comment #20912939

    There are 2 unofficial and open source Linux clients: - http://todoistlinux.hakimouake.com/ - https://github.com/KryDos/todoist-linux There are also various command line clients, e…

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    Comment #20912876

    If you are looking for an alternative todo app that is in it for the long haul, check out Todoist. We have been at it longer than Wunderlist (12+ years), and we will never sell out…

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    Comment #16301902

    We still use email, but not for internal team communication. We have a help article of why Twist is radically different than email https://twist.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500…

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    Comment #16301810

    Slack is a great product, but with a wrong communication model. We have for the last three years developed Twist, which focuses on asynchronous communication by default. It include…

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    Comment #16287046

    Wonder why they didn’t go with Stripe, but with an European competitor? This is great for the European tech scene.

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    Comment #14605411

    Yes, we do. We implement the Resthooks spec. Please see this: https://api.twistapp.com/#integrations-rest-hooks

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    Comment #14605307

    We are also launching an integration with Zapier today: https://zapier.com/zapbook/twist/ And we also have a very powerful API: https://api.twistapp.com/ And we are working on a lo…