I never understood why wunderlist was so successful. Any hints?
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
#32Could it be that todo apps are kind of hard? What else explains the lethargic pace of improvements for Microsoft’s own todo app?
I don't know much about todos. But I know Microsoft. They're passionate about fucking up every good thing they own. My uncle once told me, Too many spoons in a pot makes the soup sour.
Microsoft upgrades things to death.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#33You 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.
He's not trying to keep the money, the headline says it right there: "founder wants to buy his app back."
Of course you can buy back something that you sold. They just don't have to sell it to you.
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#34Please 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.
Is this somehow worse with MS accounts than with Google or Apple accounts?
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#35I never understood why wunderlist was so successful. Any hints?
- Shared to do lists (e.g. with your partner/spouse)
- Very good platform coverage of clients
- Good UX
I don't think the set of features is too impressive by todays standards, but at the time it was pretty appealing compared to the competition.
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#36I 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.
>I am still awe at how bad MS is at making Windows apps.
They've gotten better at being bad. Before, apps crashed but at least they were full featured, had two or three ways of doing the same thing - so you could get shit done.
Now, stuff from MS is generally slower, still crash prone, looks fancy but is bare-boned, updates remove the few useful stuff and replace em with half baked alternatives or nothing.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#37I would start using WL again if this happens. 100%.
EDIT: I can't believe how much positive press MS To-Do has gotten. It's a featureless rip-off of WL that could have been built in a month.
Re: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
#38You 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.
Microsoft would get a fraction of their money back.
The former owners wouldn't pay more than 10-25% of what they previously sold Wunderlist for, at this point.
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#39I don't understand, why Microsoft is porting features from Wunderlist to their To-Do instead of just shutting down To-Do and add small shiny MS logo to Wunderlist? As far as I can see, WL is more feature rich and has better user base, no?
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#40There maybe a window opportunity in the todo space at the moment for a GTD oriented app. Look at thing that is only available for iOs. There's only NirvanaHQ coming close and it's not moving much at the moment.