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Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by jeroenhd »

dinkleberg wrote: post #43
jeroenhd wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For 20 bucks a year without any sort of cloud servers to pay for, I'd expect dark mode at the very least. The app looks nice of course, but it's priced quite steeply. If you charge a premium, customers will have high expectations.

It is not a binary system. If every time an app misses a feature you want you rate it a 1 star, it completely devalues the rating system.

I agree, but unfortunately ratings are rather useless until you've gathered at least a couple dozen of them.

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by seec »

allenu wrote: post #35
spiderice wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What changed that made selling software (as opposed to renting) work before that prevents it from working now?

It's a bunch of things. In the old days, if you bought software in a box for your OS (let's say DOS), you didn't expect it to need to be updated. It also continued to work just fine and maybe you didn't update your OS that frequently or had security issues to worry about. Nowadays, iOS gets updated every year and APIs get deprecated, and users update, so you have to maintain the app after initially shipping it. A lot…

Actually people don't expect it to be updated in most cases. In fact, Apple is generally forcing their hands with constant nagging to update and the psychologically taxing red notification dot that people do not know how to get rid of.

Most people would be just fine buying a phone as it is and using it as is for the rest of it's useful life. But they can't, because Apple came with a clever marketing trick to make things easier for them: "free" updates for everyone. This way they get to keep working only on one OS version, deprecated stuff aggressively and largely no need to care about security patching stuff after a few years.

If you are in the "ecosystem" they will force you to upgrade your OSs to be in sync if you dare use one of their apps since they are tied to OS release (dumbest things ever, but of course it's on purpose).

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by seec »

ActionHank wrote: post #6

Love the app, hate IAP / subs model

Yep, 25 euros a year for a goddamn app is ridiculous. It's the same price as a nice physical agenda, that needs all kinds of production and supply chain wizardry.

Mobile devs are out of their minds nowadays. No that it matters that much because those phone apps end up being largely pointless most of the time (hence the absurdity of the high price).

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by jamil7 »

zesfy wrote: post #50
jon-wood wrote: post #7

If this were available on macOS as well, and did sync via iCloud I'd be all over it. It's a great model for a calendar/task manager but I really don't want to have to squint at my phone screen while using it.

Thanks. I'm happy to share that iCloud sync and MacOS app is something that already in the plan for future development. In the meantime, if you have an M-series Mac, you should be able to run the app directly on your Mac since I've enabled Mac Catalyst support.

Just a heads up from someone who's gone down iCloud sync path before. Make sure you're aware of the tradeoffs before relying on it for your app. It has a lot of downsides that aren't immediately obvious due to it relying on the user's iCloud storage quota. Many user's don't understand this and will leave 1 star reviews etc.

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by jamil7 »

righthand wrote: post #57
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #27

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I suspect the guy enjoys some food every now and then

I think someone that can afford to publish on the most expensive app publishing platform can afford food all the time. There are no poor iOS developers.

The developer fee is a business expense for anyone publishing software as an entity on the App Store. This is the same as any other expense someone might require for their profession, it doesn't have anything to do with their financial security.

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by nashashmi »

raybb wrote: post #23

I don't have an iPhone to try this, but I've been a long time time user of Tasks.org on Android and particularly because it supports CalDAV and works so well offline. However, while we are on the topic of planning apps, you should know the Todoist added the best use of AI I've ever seen. It's called Ramble mode and you can just talk and instantly it'll start showing a list of tasks that update as you go. It is extrao…

standard AI meeting room note takers have been able to extract todo items for a while now.

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by raybb »

nashashmi wrote: post #77
raybb wrote: post #23

I don't have an iPhone to try this, but I've been a long time time user of Tasks.org on Android and particularly because it supports CalDAV and works so well offline. However, while we are on the topic of planning apps, you should know the Todoist added the best use of AI I've ever seen. It's called Ramble mode and you can just talk and instantly it'll start showing a list of tasks that update as you go. It is extrao…

standard AI meeting room note takers have been able to extract todo items for a while now.

Is one well integrated with a project management tool and actually creates and updates the todos?

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by nashashmi »

raybb wrote: post #78
nashashmi wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

standard AI meeting room note takers have been able to extract todo items for a while now.

Is one well integrated with a project management tool and actually creates and updates the todos?

All of the ones I come across only extracted the points for action items. I didn’t notice any of them submitting to task managers.

You asked “how they are able to do this” and I said it has been a standard feature for a while now in meeting rooms. The additional features in todoist fills in the right data in the right columns, which is notable, but things like have been done with 30boxes where natural language is used to create events.

Re: Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

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Post by zesfy »

dinkleberg wrote: post #14

It looks well done. It is a shame that people posting reviews can be such dickheads. Out of the 4 public reviews, 3 are 1 star and only one of those is because of an actual issue. One is because the app isn’t right for them. The other because they wanted dark mode (really? You like the app enough to care that it doesn’t have dark mode but still gave it a 1 star?)

Thanks so much for the kind words. Yeah, too bad people can be so quick to leave bad reviews for something like feature requests, especially since I've made it easy to reach out via email for feedback or requests. Really appreciate you pointing this out.
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