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Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by lelandfe »

kareemm wrote: post #13

Love it. I've been increasingly dissatisfied with Things. Specific things I'm looking for in a Todo manager: 1. iPhone Mac apps and syncing 2. Hotkeys + Speed 3. Shared lists (you don't even mention this until I get into Guides, but I love it) 4. Smart lists 5. Nesting 6. Pasting images 7. Projects + subtasks 8. An inbox 9. Snoozing to the future 10. Focus mode (gets rid of everything else EXCEPT for the current task…

$150 is $90 more than getting Things for iOS and macOS. I'm a big Things user, will be curious to see if this is worth the price.

Shame that it only nets you 18 months, and seemingly no support guarantee. I'm also curious how limitless bug fixes for older versions is going to work out. "Godspeed will never stop working" feels like a bold claim to make given enough time in "never." I've been using Things for 6 years now.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by busterarm »

graypegg wrote: post #27
apetrovic wrote: post #10

I understand that making a good app is hard, and don't want to undermine your effort, but $150 for a todo app... ouch.

I am (personally) alright with this model. $150 is on par with OmniFocus Pro [0] which I've gotten easily more than $150 of value out of. (Including prior purchases of earlier versions, and similar price points.) With todo apps, I don't really expect the same sort of constant on-slaught of features like I do from other things. I expect it to continue to work and get out of the way. I expect the price to reflect the f…

Right, but by choosing to go keyboard-focused it's competing in a space with very feature-rich Vim and Emacs plugins (and users who want to work out of those) that are free.

Even the Sublime users have lots of options already. Sublime is ALSO a very capable text editor and $100.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by lukefreiler »

kareemm wrote: post #17
apetrovic wrote: post #10

I understand that making a good app is hard, and don't want to undermine your effort, but $150 for a todo app... ouch.

Pay no mind to this guy/gal. S/he's not your ideal customer. $150 once for an app to organize your work and personal life is a screaming bargain.

Just because they don't feel the price is right/competitive doesn't automatically write them off as not your target market/ICP - it could still be very valid feedback, especially when competitive options may be cheaper.

Personally I pay less than 1/2 the sub rate they're charging for TickTick Premium, and love it. That's not to say I wouldn't pay double for what it gains me (I definitely would), but given that TickTick is a viable option - I don't need to.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by kareemm »

FredPret wrote: post #28
kareemm wrote: post #13

Love it. I've been increasingly dissatisfied with Things. Specific things I'm looking for in a Todo manager: 1. iPhone Mac apps and syncing 2. Hotkeys + Speed 3. Shared lists (you don't even mention this until I get into Guides, but I love it) 4. Smart lists 5. Nesting 6. Pasting images 7. Projects + subtasks 8. An inbox 9. Snoozing to the future 10. Focus mode (gets rid of everything else EXCEPT for the current task…

Do you have Things for Mac? I loved Things on my iPhone until I saw the Mac version is another CAD 70. Now I use vanilla Obsidian with checkboxes - super simple, and I own the file. There's no snoozing though - you have to cut-paste a task into a different todo list if you want to move it. I'm sure there's also a plugin that would make it more org-mode-ish.

I have both Things for Mac and iPhone. The money's trivial for organizing my life. I don't want to spend a second more in my todo app than necessary and would rather pay to have things just work.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by mrinterweb »

This looks great and I appreciate the demo period and the option to buy one-time. Do wish the buy one-time had a longer update length. The subscription looks like the better deal. The $149 / 18 months is $8.28/month. Guess the upside is you get to keep using the app without updates after the 18 months. I have subscription fatigue so I do appreciate the one-time purchase.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by kareemm »

lelandfe wrote: post #31
kareemm wrote: post #13

Love it. I've been increasingly dissatisfied with Things. Specific things I'm looking for in a Todo manager: 1. iPhone Mac apps and syncing 2. Hotkeys + Speed 3. Shared lists (you don't even mention this until I get into Guides, but I love it) 4. Smart lists 5. Nesting 6. Pasting images 7. Projects + subtasks 8. An inbox 9. Snoozing to the future 10. Focus mode (gets rid of everything else EXCEPT for the current task…

$150 is $90 more than getting Things for iOS and macOS. I'm a big Things user, will be curious to see if this is worth the price. Shame that it only nets you 18 months, and seemingly no support guarantee. I'm also curious how limitless bug fixes for older versions is going to work out. "Godspeed will never stop working" feels like a bold claim to make given enough time in "never." I've been using Things for 6 years n…

Agreed re: 18 months. Been using Things for 8-9 years now, tried Sunsama, Todoist, and Amazing Marvin but keep coming back to Things.

Godspeed looks interesting enough vs Things to kick the tires b/c:

1. Speed of date picking and moving todos (choosing dates in Things is a mouse operation and I do it multiple times a day. It's 2024 guys, we don't need calendar pickers when we have command palettes)

2. Image support (super annoying I can't include files in Things. Again... 2024, come on)

3. Sharing lists (can't do in Things which doesn't respect that todos are often collaborative / shared)

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by graypegg »

busterarm wrote: post #32
graypegg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am (personally) alright with this model. $150 is on par with OmniFocus Pro [0] which I've gotten easily more than $150 of value out of. (Including prior purchases of earlier versions, and similar price points.) With todo apps, I don't really expect the same sort of constant on-slaught of features like I do from other things. I expect it to continue to work and get out of the way. I expect the price to reflect the f…

Right, but by choosing to go keyboard-focused it's competing in a space with very feature-rich Vim and Emacs plugins (and users who want to work out of those) that are free. Even the Sublime users have lots of options already. Sublime is ALSO a very capable text editor and $100.

Fair, though I do think there's value you might be discounting here that ISN'T keyboard shortcuts. The market isn't all vim/emacs users, it's complex Omnifocus-style todo app users, who are frustrated with the lack of keyboard support in those apps. These users are more comfortable with this price point than you may expect (IMO) but will need feature parity for things like OmniFocus perspectives/floating timezones/easy outlining.

A CLI app is not something I would want to use for something I touch every 30minutes, every day, from many devices. But I do use vim for text editing.

Re: Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

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Post by kareemm »

lukefreiler wrote: post #34
kareemm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pay no mind to this guy/gal. S/he's not your ideal customer. $150 once for an app to organize your work and personal life is a screaming bargain.

Just because they don't feel the price is right/competitive doesn't automatically write them off as not your target market/ICP - it could still be very valid feedback, especially when competitive options may be cheaper. Personally I pay less than 1/2 the sub rate they're charging for TickTick Premium, and love it. That's not to say I wouldn't pay double for what it gains me (I definitely would), but given that TickTi…

If you organize your life using a todo app then $8/m is not even worth thinking about. It's 1.5 coffees.
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