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carlmrtoday at 7:10 AM1 replyview on HN

Which is not getting better.

I'd pay you 10€ for a TODO app that improved my life meaningfully. It would obviously need to have great UX and be stable. Those are table stakes.

I don't have the time to look at all these apps though. If somebody tells me they made a great TODO app, I'm already mentally filtering them out. There's just too much noise here.

Does your TODO app solve any meaningful problem beyond the bare minimum? Does it solve your procrastination? Does it remind you at the right time?

If it doesn't answer this in the first 2 seconds of your pitch you're out.


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bluGilltoday at 1:50 PM

> It would obviously need to have great UX

There is the problem. Todo apps are easy to make. However making one that is actually useful for tracking todo items it hard. Getting the todo into the app is harder than writing it on paper. Getting reminders at a useful time is hard (now is not a great time to fix that broken widget - it needs parts not in the budget, I'm at work, it needs a couple hours of dedicated time and I have something else coming up...). I've tried a few different ones, most are a combination of too complex and not complex enough at the same time.