Did he sign a non-compete? Rebuild something new/better.
This is what the guy from meh.com did. Sold his woot com to some large corporation saw they turned it into junk and he launched meh.com
The large corporation was Amazon.
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
#22I am still awe at how bad MS is at making Windows apps. To Do is a poster child. I think Visio uses less RAM, is extremely laggy, slow to load, crashes many times a week and has awful layout for pen input.
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#23You don't usually have to tell this to an adult, but: no backsies.
Your can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't sell your company and keep it too. Basic.
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#24I think that it's a good sign that we see more and more founders who publicly admit that their creation is not between good hands after acquisition. Let's hope Microsoft makes this thing happen.
Call me cynical but if they wanted it to be in good hands ... maybe don't take the money and run?
Dude in one way or another cashed out and now wants to have his cake and eat it too.
We get so many "founder sad about how things turned out after it is sold". If the founder hands over the keys IMO to some extent they're "responsible" for what happens next.
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#25You don't usually have to tell this to an adult, but: no backsies. Your can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't sell your company and keep it too. Basic.
Well tell that to Skype :)
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#26You don't usually have to tell this to an adult, but: no backsies. Your can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't sell your company and keep it too. Basic.
Yeah, that’s why he wants to buy it back. They will get their money back.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#27Did he sign a non-compete? Rebuild something new/better.
I gotta think that's the standard operating procedure and part of the deal for getting bought out ($$$) is the founders can't run off and just clone it.
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#28What's the point of buying it back, if he can just start another similar company and siphon off many active, disgruntled users? Yeah, you don't get to keep the already registered userbase, or the brand, but I think former users would flock to it if they knew the original people were in charge of this product.
Is there something in the contract that they can't start a competing product within X years, but could do a buyback?
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#29Could it be that todo apps are kind of hard? What else explains the lethargic pace of improvements for Microsoft’s own todo app?
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#30Please 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.
The company I now work for has decided to separate out admin accounts in Windows. Fair enough, except it's not like a Unix system where you can quickly context switch. Trying to administer Office 365 with two separate Office 365 accounts is an absolutely nightmare!