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Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by reaperducer »

flaque wrote: post #91
reaperducer wrote: post #3

I'm not in the market for this kind of app, but thank you for making it a straight $9.99 purchase, instead of a $4.99/month SaaS (rental) scheme. Or some bogus in-app purchase that gets negated somewhere along the way when the app auto-updates and the previous in-app purchase is no longer available. I can't tell if it syncs data with my other Apple devices, but if it does, it would be great if it had the option of do…

I would much rather pay for a product over time. When you pay upfront, the dev is not incentivized to try and keep you. So the product gets worse and worse until it dies. If you pay overtime, the whole game is “how can we make this person love the shit out of this thing for as long as possible.”

When you pay upfront, the dev is not incentivized to try and keep you. So the product gets worse and worse until it dies.

This is not true.

When you pay up front, the developer has an incentive to make the product right the first time; instead of releasing a buggy product because it can always be patched later.

In the pay up front model, if the initial product is crap, then nobody buys the next version. That is the incentive to release a quality program the first time around.

Then the developer has an incentive to make the next version so much better that people who like the first product will buy the new version.

If you pay overtime, the whole game is “how can we make this person love the shit out of this thing for as long as possible.”

No, if you pay over time, the whole game is "how can we keep this sucker on the hook and milk him for monthly payments for bug fixes and things we should have done the first time."

For example, millions of people pay repeatedly for WordPerfect from version to version for decades because it just kept getting better. That's how it was done until very recently, even with operating systems.

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

#102

Post by aracena »

dang wrote: post #96
aracena wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thank you for the information I didn't know that, We offered to many people who asked to try the app to write us to h@effortless.app and we will give it to them. Hopefully next time we will do a better show HN thank you

Well, that's probably enough if you're willing to follow through on such requests quickly. I'll restore the title.

Thank you so much!!!!

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by Terretta »

jpulgarin wrote: post #84
tobr wrote: post #70

This looks brilliant in its simplicity. I’ve been using Tyke.app for a few weeks as a task list, and it’s perhaps the first that seems to work for me. Getting timers + fast task entry seems like a useful addition. Bought it, the price is perfect. Some feedback. Starting the task automatically when it’s added feels stressful. Same when I restart the app - it starts ticking. Not sure how to reset it either. Would like…

Thanks a lot. We focused a lot on simplicity so I'm glad that shines through. Your feedback is super useful to us. The ability to turn off the active task is probably something we will incorporate in the next release. Having the ability to add tasks without a timer needs to be thought through a bit more by us since many users use their Effortless task list as a sort of notepad. Please let me know if you have any more…

Big fan of the auto start and countdown stuff you’re doing — there’s a lot of value in the “pomodoro method” which this could approach or help automate.

It’s not for everyone, but the idea is to trigger a kind of competitiveness/relentlessness with your todos that helps focus and flow.

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by tobr »

jpulgarin wrote: post #84
tobr wrote: post #70

This looks brilliant in its simplicity. I’ve been using Tyke.app for a few weeks as a task list, and it’s perhaps the first that seems to work for me. Getting timers + fast task entry seems like a useful addition. Bought it, the price is perfect. Some feedback. Starting the task automatically when it’s added feels stressful. Same when I restart the app - it starts ticking. Not sure how to reset it either. Would like…

Thanks a lot. We focused a lot on simplicity so I'm glad that shines through. Your feedback is super useful to us. The ability to turn off the active task is probably something we will incorporate in the next release. Having the ability to add tasks without a timer needs to be thought through a bit more by us since many users use their Effortless task list as a sort of notepad. Please let me know if you have any more…

One more thing - maybe I’m imagining this but I wonder if you might have a bug that causes the alert sound to go off sometimes even when the tasks are paused? I’ve heard an occasional ping from two different computers since installing the app yesterday, and I can’t figure out what else would be causing the sound.

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

#105

Post by aracena »

tobr wrote: post #104
jpulgarin wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot. We focused a lot on simplicity so I'm glad that shines through. Your feedback is super useful to us. The ability to turn off the active task is probably something we will incorporate in the next release. Having the ability to add tasks without a timer needs to be thought through a bit more by us since many users use their Effortless task list as a sort of notepad. Please let me know if you have any more…

One more thing - maybe I’m imagining this but I wonder if you might have a bug that causes the alert sound to go off sometimes even when the tasks are paused? I’ve heard an occasional ping from two different computers since installing the app yesterday, and I can’t figure out what else would be causing the sound.

I know what you mean, the idea is that if you pause the the task it will remind you every 5 mins to resume the task. Basicly you have to compleat the task or remove it. if this becomes a problem write me to h@effortless.co and we will find a way to improve it

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by tobr »

aracena wrote: post #105
tobr wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One more thing - maybe I’m imagining this but I wonder if you might have a bug that causes the alert sound to go off sometimes even when the tasks are paused? I’ve heard an occasional ping from two different computers since installing the app yesterday, and I can’t figure out what else would be causing the sound.

I know what you mean, the idea is that if you pause the the task it will remind you every 5 mins to resume the task. Basicly you have to compleat the task or remove it. if this becomes a problem write me to h@effortless.co and we will find a way to improve it

Huh. That’s not at all clear, and strikes me as weird. I think you’d have to pair it with some visual indication...

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by jpulgarin »

Fnoord wrote: post #55
jpulgarin wrote: post #20

Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I'm h…

Could you consider synchronization via Nextcloud?

Will definitely look into it!

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by jpulgarin »

tobr wrote: post #106
aracena wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know what you mean, the idea is that if you pause the the task it will remind you every 5 mins to resume the task. Basicly you have to compleat the task or remove it. if this becomes a problem write me to h@effortless.co and we will find a way to improve it

Huh. That’s not at all clear, and strikes me as weird. I think you’d have to pair it with some visual indication...

Thanks for the feedback - I can definitely understand it not being intuitive. If you want to remove the alert for now you can do so from the preferences window (it's the "Mute get back to work alert" option).

Re: Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

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Post by Dextro »

jpulgarin wrote: post #83
Dextro wrote: post #62

It would be pretty cool if there was a way to add tasks straight from Alfred

There's a quick add functionality which allows you to add a task with a keyboard shortcut. Would Alfred integration still seem useful to you?

I usually forget my shortcuts and rely heavily in tools like alfred (or the Jetbrains find action shortcut). It reduces the amount of shortcuts I need to remember. It also reduces the likelihood of shortcuts conflicting if I only need a couple of them :)
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