Nice app! I remember that an extremely similar product was Sunrise. It was a well crafted product and it was bought by Microsoft. The development has been since then discontinued, and functions were integrated into Outlook. Hope this won't happen to Routine. Nice work!
Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
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Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
(for now at least) That's why advertising the service around privacy is being criticized. It's a business. It will do business things. Saying it won't do those things is a distraction...like this conversation. People who seriously care about privacy are not using Google to manage their information. They are not even your potential users, because they don't use Google. Not storing data on your servers is a sound way t…
We are not trying to say that Routine has been built around privacy like Protomail could say. We do not make such claims on our website. But since we are asking users for their Google credentials, we thought it was more transparent to explain, for each service, why we needed it and what it meant. We prefer to be transparent than just ask for a bunch of permission without explanation as other services do. And yes we a…
My critique is this seems a distraction.
Just have standard terms of service.
A snowflake is always “for now.”
Placating people who don’t like your ToS is not connecting with people in your market segment.
Your market segment is people who don’t care. Your differentiation is treating them better than you can get away with.
Again I don’t have any issue with what you are doing.
I think privacy theater is a waste of your time and energy.
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#63Awesome to see more people work on integrated productivity spaces! I work on something very similar at Life ( https://life.so ). Since you decided to include notes into your bundling as well (which I did not so far) I am curious: How do you expect people to switch their note-writing habits from Notion, Roam, etc. to your project? It seemed to me that the notes market is extremely competitive already. The design looks…
Life.so looks very interesting. It does one thing I wish all task managements did: integrate calendar so that you can schedule tasks on your calendar. This, to me, is key to actually getting things done.
I would love to also have notes built into it - that way I won't be context switching and could (presumably) add tasks from within notes.
I've signed up for your app - looking forward to seeing it!
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#64Awesome to see more people work on integrated productivity spaces! I work on something very similar at Life ( https://life.so ). Since you decided to include notes into your bundling as well (which I did not so far) I am curious: How do you expect people to switch their note-writing habits from Notion, Roam, etc. to your project? It seemed to me that the notes market is extremely competitive already. The design looks…
Life.so looks very interesting. It does one thing I wish all task managements did: integrate calendar so that you can schedule tasks on your calendar. This, to me, is key to actually getting things done. I would love to also have notes built into it - that way I won't be context switching and could (presumably) add tasks from within notes. I've signed up for your app - looking forward to seeing it!
Definitely agree. Looks like what you are describing is Routine (http://routine.co) :)
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Life.so looks very interesting. It does one thing I wish all task managements did: integrate calendar so that you can schedule tasks on your calendar. This, to me, is key to actually getting things done. I would love to also have notes built into it - that way I won't be context switching and could (presumably) add tasks from within notes. I've signed up for your app - looking forward to seeing it!
Definitely agree. Looks like what you are describing is Routine ( http://routine.co ) :)
Yes but sadly I'm on Exchange - so it won't work for me right now. Otherwise I'd already be playing with it!
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#66Nice app! I remember that an extremely similar product was Sunrise. It was a well crafted product and it was bought by Microsoft. The development has been since then discontinued, and functions were integrated into Outlook. Hope this won't happen to Routine. Nice work!
We were definitely inspired by Sunrise. We tried to extend the idea by integrating tasks and notes as well.
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#67I need this on Windows/Web
Hey Jonas. Our team is too small for us to go after all the platforms right now unfortunately. But we do have a Web app: https://bit.ly/3rhkYLt
Ack! Why isn't the web app featured prominently on your homepage? I bounced when I saw the Mac-only requirement, and almost abandoned checking out your product any further until I found your comment/link at the bottom of this thread.
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#68Another app that aims to "fix" workday tasks? It's hard to see why this is better and choosing Electron is a red flag. Reminds me of the email client wars from years ago.
Half an app, barely a business. Why did YC back this?
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey Jonas. Our team is too small for us to go after all the platforms right now unfortunately. But we do have a Web app: https://bit.ly/3rhkYLt
Ack! Why isn't the web app featured prominently on your homepage? I bounced when I saw the Mac-only requirement, and almost abandoned checking out your product any further until I found your comment/link at the bottom of this thread.
Thanks lenova. Duly noted, we'll improve that as it's not the first time we get the feedback here.
Re: Launch HN: Routine (YC W21) – Tasks, notes and calendar all in one product
#70I've been an early user of Routine and have been surprised by how much it sticked.
I like seeing my calendar, notes and tasks in the same place. I think that going forward contacts should also be part of the app. If I take notes during a meeting, they should be linked to my Routine
Main thing I use in the app is the calendar to join meetings in a click