Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
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Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
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Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#2Given how unrealistic reviving Wunderlist is (almost everyone of the original employees is working on other things inside Microsoft or has left), this ought to be a PR stunt, right? He might as well start from scratch at this point.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#3Given how unrealistic reviving Wunderlist is (almost everyone of the original employees is working on other things inside Microsoft or has left), this ought to be a PR stunt, right? He might as well start from scratch at this point.
I think it speaks to how companies buy teams not products most of the time, and it's often tragic for the app itself.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#4I tried to use To Do this summer and gave up after a few weeks. Across Windows and iOS: notifications mostly don’t fire, apps kept reloading content every time I opened them (aka no cloud = no functionality). In the end, I gave up and just resumed using a combo of Reminders and Notes.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#5I tried to use To Do this summer and gave up after a few weeks. Across Windows and iOS: notifications mostly don’t fire, apps kept reloading content every time I opened them (aka no cloud = no functionality). In the end, I gave up and just resumed using a combo of Reminders and Notes.
I had a similar experience, but without the Windows element.
I paid for Wunderlist, but dropped it because it evolved into something more convoluted than I wanted. I went back to the stock iOS apps.
I didn't even know what Microsoft ate Wunderlist. I guess that's why I got an e-mail about Wunderlist out of the blue after I hadn't used it in what seemed like years.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#6Microsoft has a directly competing product, so I don't see why they would ever want to sell Wunderlust. They would essentially be creating their own competitor, in return for a fraction of the money they had paid to acquire Wunderlist earlier.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#7Given how unrealistic reviving Wunderlist is (almost everyone of the original employees is working on other things inside Microsoft or has left), this ought to be a PR stunt, right? He might as well start from scratch at this point.
This might provoke strong responses from hacker / programmer crowd, but...
Relatively speaking, building a small team of capable engineers is much easier than getting a business, especially in a competitive space like TODO lists, to 13+ million users (their numbers in 2015 at the time of Microsoft acquisition).
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#8Given how unrealistic reviving Wunderlist is (almost everyone of the original employees is working on other things inside Microsoft or has left), this ought to be a PR stunt, right? He might as well start from scratch at this point.
I think it speaks to how companies buy teams not products most of the time, and it's often tragic for the app itself.
Or alternatively, they buy a competitor to sink it before they become too powerful or falls in the hands of another larger competitor.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#9Did he sign a non-compete?
Rebuild something new/better.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#10Given how unrealistic reviving Wunderlist is (almost everyone of the original employees is working on other things inside Microsoft or has left), this ought to be a PR stunt, right? He might as well start from scratch at this point.
This might provoke strong responses from hacker / programmer crowd, but... Relatively speaking, building a small team of capable engineers is much easier than getting a business, especially in a competitive space like TODO lists, to 13+ million users (their numbers in 2015 at the time of Microsoft acquisition).
I don’t know why this should be controversial. Plenty of good products fail and shoddy ones succeed. It’s clear engineering merit is not the primary factor in success.