Ask HN: What do you think about my startup (website and app) itemzapp.com?

If it'll be a product: why not focus more on what sets it apart from the competition?

The manual "enter ToDo items in a few lists, categorized as follows..." work really gets old for me, to the point that I won't ever do this again, no matter what clever algorithm optimizes whatever useful for me. Just stop asking me to manually put stuff into lists one by one. No kind of "gamification" helps with this, either.

Actually I use different kind of ToDo Apps... For example:

Evernote Premium - I don't ever manually write a note by myself, but all kinds of input channels are here collected in notebooks, just in case I need something later. A letter from someone (photographed/scanned by the mobile app, done), a cooking recipe someone showed me, some activity data from my trackers, a few GPS-triggered events via IFTTT, and so on.

Instapaper Premium - Okay, not a classical todo-list, but the "read later" aspect is kinda the same: I save stuff on the internet for reading later (buttonclick on a browseraddon, done), and on some bored weekends I go through the accumulated list and read it (if still relevant for me), discard it, or move it into a Evernote Note If I might need it for referencing later.

Apple's Todo-Appish-Thingy don't know how it's called, together with a Google calendar account, for automatically adding real todo's on lists/schedules when someone mails me something. For example on OSX mail, you can click on the text "meet later on 9PM at the restaurant?" and create an event in the calender directly. Also I can copypaste some cooking incredients from online recipes into this todo-app-thing on my iMac, and work through the list on my iPhone while shopping in the grocery store.

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There's more, but the essence is: I just don't enter "ToDo Items" manually, tag them, priorize them, sort them, whatever. At least for me it's outright irrelevant how great you gamify your app or do clever algorithms, the data input process knocks me off.

On the plus side: I really liked the tone of your tutorial popups, it's really refreshing NOT to read the same phrases over and over again, like copypasted from decade old websites. And I'm not a native english speaker (as you can see from my terrible writing style).

Just my $0.02

Thanks for the kind words on itemz. I get that the formula is just not right for you and I really appreciate that you explained it. We're planning to adjust itemz so you would integrate more data from various sources, but to be honest - I have no idea when will it happened. It's still on "someday" column.

But thanks a lot for your feedback it's really useful.

All best :)

- From the creators of this site and its previous version

- After being compared to Duke Nukem Forever

- "I’ve never agreed to having my face used on the itemz website"

- "There are millions of task management apps. Creating another one is just stupid."

- "I don’t use this app and I‘m not planning to start"

Despite OP saying otherwise in this thread, this has to be a joke.. right? Every page/video seems to have things like this. OP, if you are serious get a native english speaker (you said you weren't one) to go through the site.