I'll come out with a contrarian point of view: I think you're wasting your time and certainly your money. To have invested your life savings into this app which, uh, is really hard to determine what it does seems silly to me - especially since you have a family to care for. Slack Meets GitHub Issues? Doesn't Slack already meet GitHub issues in that it integrates with GitHub fine? The fact that you need a very long bl…
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#72Can someone explain to me the apparently common obsession with creating to-do lists and chat programs? I can't figure out why so many people devote this much of their time to building to-do lists.
Being developers, we wind up blaming the record-keeping tool for the unmanageable mess rather than our own habits. That leads us to think that if we could just create a better tool for keeping track of our TODO list, our lives would be easier to manage, and maybe others could benefit from the tool as well.
Of course it never seems to pan out, because what we're trying to manage is our (work) lives, and our lives cannot be represented as a simple task list. There's a lot more nuance and complexity to it. And that's why we end up with a million different implementations of simple TODO lists.
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#73I'm not a fan of the to-do/chat combination. There just isn't a lot of intersection between the things on my to-do list and the things I want to chat about. Who wants to chat about their grocery list? Who would contact their family about dinner plans with this instead of a phone call, text message, Tweet, etc. just because they can easily save a to-do item? Perhaps this has other uses.
Consider extremely detailed user stories. Who might want to this? A software product manager communicating with the technical team about features and bugs; a high-school student and her study group; an extended family planning a vacation together?
What would they share, and how does this tool help? Why would they use something new instead of a phone, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, preferred existing group to-do list app, or a thousand other tools? What are their favorite colors; favorite words; turn-offs?
Kudos on what you've done so far. And remember, even if this fails as a startup (most do), it certainly demonstrates your skills. Hopefully it will open doors.
Oh...and don't bankrupt yourself working on this. That would just be crazy.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really like the concept and a bunch of the features but echo other thoughts. Also, plzplzplzzplz don't keep something a bunch of people have said they dislike because it came about years ago and you're attached to it.
I agree. "OpenLoop" and "OpenLoopz" is enough to justify it.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
While the name is not perfect, I don't believe it is as dramatic as you are making it out to be http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz
If you're Joel Spolsky you can release a piece of software with any name you care to choose and people will still take it seriously because you have earned the respect of your peers. Other people who don't have decades of experience producing exceptional software don't have the same luxury. Fogbugz is a terrible name and if an unknown developer had released it there's a good chance too few people would have looked at…
"Ve still neet a buck trecker, I vas finking about Jira, or do you haef a better idea?" "Yes, I recommend FuckBugs!"
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#76I'll come out with a contrarian point of view: I think you're wasting your time and certainly your money. To have invested your life savings into this app which, uh, is really hard to determine what it does seems silly to me - especially since you have a family to care for. Slack Meets GitHub Issues? Doesn't Slack already meet GitHub issues in that it integrates with GitHub fine? The fact that you need a very long bl…
#middlebrow_dismissal
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#77There are too many apps created that say nothing on their landing page, and it feels frustrating for users when they cannot find / understand "what is this?".
Best of luck!
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#78I'll come out with a contrarian point of view: I think you're wasting your time and certainly your money. To have invested your life savings into this app which, uh, is really hard to determine what it does seems silly to me - especially since you have a family to care for. Slack Meets GitHub Issues? Doesn't Slack already meet GitHub issues in that it integrates with GitHub fine? The fact that you need a very long bl…
What this product would be useful for isn't explained well, and I'm not sure even the OP knows.
But there's clearly something compelling here based on the attention we've all given it.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. "OpenLoop" and "OpenLoopz" is enough to justify it.
I was speaking broadly and not actually directly about the name but using the name as an example. :)
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope whenever I submit something to HN that 1) someone cares enough to be this critical\constructive and 2) I am adult enough not to take it on the chin and not get sulky. I'm most worried about #2
I am the OP and I would hate it if I had a few "this is cool" comments and no constructive criticism. I really appreciate it. When I first read some of the harsher feedback on here, it did feel like a punch in the face - I won't lie ;-) But then I took a deep breath and read it again objectively and actually tried to take it in. And 99% of what's here is excellent feedback. I wasn't expecting any responses, honestly…