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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

#11
Please make this a reality.

To-Do is a joke compared to Wunderlist. It suffers from the same fate as all MS-built iOS apps: random logouts. I can't convince anyone to use MS apps because the first time they get logged out after an update they just stop using the app.

Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

#14

Did he sign a non-compete? Rebuild something new/better.

Possibly but it for sure expired at this point. The reason not to rebuild is because Wunderlist is great as it is. It is feature complete, I cannot think of a single new feature I would want to add to it.

Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

#17
post #6

Microsoft 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.

Not to mention that even the full purchase price of $100-$200m doesn’t make the Microsoft CEO even raise one eyebrow one millimeter.

Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

#18
post #11

Please make this a reality. To-Do is a joke compared to Wunderlist. It suffers from the same fate as all MS-built iOS apps: random logouts. I can't convince anyone to use MS apps because the first time they get logged out after an update they just stop using the app.

That sounds like an infuriating and interesting bug. Any idea what would cause that across Microsoft iOS apps? Do they just aggressively timeout sessions?

Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

#19
post #11

Please make this a reality. To-Do is a joke compared to Wunderlist. It suffers from the same fate as all MS-built iOS apps: random logouts. I can't convince anyone to use MS apps because the first time they get logged out after an update they just stop using the app.

And God help them if they somehow have a work/school and personal Microsoft account and don't remember which one they used.

Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

#20
post #7
post #2

Given 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 find the complete 180 to be true. Very easy to get a business into a competitive space, but it’s hard to build a capable team of engineers. If you have both money and a solid idea to generating revenue (business plan) then you have solved both problems easily, relatively speaking. Engineers come together with the universal language.. money. Something startups don’t have.
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