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Former founder of Wunderlist wants to acquire it back from Microsoft
- PalmCentro 7y agoMicrosoft paid more than 100 million dollars to kill this.
- WorldMaker 7y agoThey didn't kill it, they did exactly what they promised to do: they converted it into an Outlook sub-brand tool that speaks Exchange first and everything else second. It's just unfortunate that it was harder to keep Wunderlist's "soul" than Accompli (Mail) or Sunrise (Calendar) in the conversion/brand and feature alignment, but also maybe not surprising because TODO features have always maybe been historically some of the weakest parts of Outlook.
- appleiigs 7y agoWhat was so great about Wunderlist? For $100MM, I think the previous owner could build a new one... it's just a to-do list. If you built one for your school project, you'd probably get a C+ due to lack of originality and difficulty.
- meerita 7y agoI think the only intesteing thing it was the community around it than the code itself.
- tenebrisalietum 7y agoIt's way easier than trying to use Outlook for that purpose. Tbh I don't even know how to share tasks in Outlook.
- throwaway090619 7y agoWhat did the founder expect would happen when he sold the company. Obviously Microsoft wanted to remake a Wunderlist app to be apart of their Office 365 portfolio. Why else would they have bought them