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Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

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Re: Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

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Post by Yhippa »

When I started using Sunrise I saw all these things you could connect to it one of which was Todoist. I really love what Todoist has done for to-do lists. I am less of a fan of Wunderlist because it doesn't have quite the features of Todoist that I'm looking for and fear that they're going to be doing better integration with Wunderlist.

Re: Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

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Post by phlyingpenguin »

NSAID wrote: post #38
phlyingpenguin wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And oh crap, one of my favorite startup quotes was "Nobody got rich making a Todo list App." That is in danger of being falsified :-) Ehh, Yahoo bought Astrid a while ago and closed it. The price wasn't announced, but I imagine they did well. My heart still pangs for the long-dead Astrid app, and I'm just that much less likely to use any Yahoo service because of that murder.

You may be interested in "Tasks", an open source replacement for Astrid. I don't believe it does everything Astrid did, but it has worked wonderfully for my needs. https://github.com/tasks/tasks https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks

Hey, neat! Sadly I'm on iOS these days so I've just gone to using todoist.

Re: Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

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Post by jotm »

phlyingpenguin wrote: post #28
ChuckMcM wrote: post #20

Congrats to the Wunderlist team. And oh crap, one of my favorite startup quotes was "Nobody got rich making a Todo list App." That is in danger of being falsified :-) It is interesting to consider Microsoft's putative strategy here which is that the mobile "OS" is still searching for the right mix of capabilities to completely replace laptops.

> And oh crap, one of my favorite startup quotes was "Nobody got rich making a Todo list App." That is in danger of being falsified :-) Ehh, Yahoo bought Astrid a while ago and closed it. The price wasn't announced, but I imagine they did well. My heart still pangs for the long-dead Astrid app, and I'm just that much less likely to use any Yahoo service because of that murder.

I was wondering what happened to them. WTF, Yahoo...

Re: Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

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Post by SwellJoe »

neokya wrote: post #40
throwaway12357 wrote: post #39

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$100-$200 million!? I'm dumbfounded with this. How many users did the app have? Granted it's a more than a TODO list. But it looks like an exorbitant amount of money for it.

They have 10 million users, so it's fair price to pay I guess https://www.wunderlist.com/world-productivity-report/

That would put their sell price at $10-$20 per user. Is that going rate for something like that? I'm pretty out of the loop on SaaS business pricing. Seems high, to me, since the vast majority of their users are using the free version. Certainly their paid users are worth a lot more than that (at $5/month, they're worth a couple hundred bucks). And, I guess growth also needs to be factored in; if they're on track to have, say, 20 million users next year, then the price starts looking more and more reasonable.

So, yeah, I guess it's not that outrageous, even if it is "just" a todo list app (it's a pretty nice one, though; I use it and mostly really like it).

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