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Cheddar for Mac Public Beta
- smoody 14y agoDoes anyone know if the Mac app might be open-sourced in the same way the iOS app was open-sourced? I'm working on an OS X app that could benefit from both tight integration with their server-based service and I think I could learn a lot from their Mac app source code, as this will be my first Mac app.
- ideavist 14y agoJust listened to your podcast on Founders Talk. Great podcast!
- jgoney 14y agoCheddar Mac; I wish I had a bowl right about now.
- frytaz 14y agoYou can click on dock icon to bring up Cheddar window before logging in ;)
- nealyoung 14y agoIs it a public beta if you have to pay for access?
- amishforkfight 14y agoAnother blog that talks about an ambiguously-named product and provides no links to or descriptions of said product. I had no idea what Cheddar was after a couple minutes of skimming the blog posts.
- dcope 14y agoWhat's wrong with navigating to the product's homepage to learn more?
- colomon 14y agoRight, it makes it "simple to organize your life" or something. It still doesn't tell me what it does in a meaningful fashion.
- dcope 14y agoThere's a video on the homepage that shows it in use. Showing something actually being used will resonate much better than stating a feature list.
- JangoSteve 14y agoAssuming they are able and care to view that video. Why not both?
- jentulman 14y agoVideo is great, but as an expansion on a brief introduction. I for one would prefer to at least read a couple of sentences that tell me what an app/service does before I have to watch a video, especially if I'm mobile at the time and/or it's hosted on Vimeo (great quality but looooong unforgiving buffer times in the UK)
- cilo 14y agoPersonally I'll only ever allow flash to load and watch a video if a product page has sufficiently grabbed my attention first. Doubly so if I'm at work. They should focus more on the real time nature of the updates and why I should care if my ipad gets a update in real time when I make an change on my iphone. I'm sure there's some scenarios where real time is useful and even more so once they start supporting more platforms but users are unlikely to try and come up with these scenarios for long before they move along to something else.
- chrismetcalf 14y ago@dcope - FYI, its really hard to figure out what you app is based on your blog. And there's no obvious link back to the site root to get more information.
- dcope 14y agoIt's not my product. I merely submitted the blog post here since I know there are people on HN that use this service.
- Bitwse 14y agoI'm interested in seeing how this will fare now that many of us using OS X on Mountain Lion are using the native "Reminders" app that already integrates with iOS. Although I've yet to try Cheddar, I can see how the ability to use markdown and hashtags can make it a viable alternative to the "Reminders" app.
- lukifer 14y agoRule #1 of a release announcement: don't assume we already know what your product is. Every time you fail to give a 1-sentence elevator pitch in your blog post, hundreds of potential customers say "meh" and hit the back button, taking their thousands of friends, family and colleagues with them.
- fredsted 14y agoAlso, screenshots.
- jentulman 14y agoAnd also I think it would be a good idea to put an easy link to the main site at the top of your blog, and maybe that 1 sentence elevator pitch as the subtitle. Your main site mentions nothing about pricing. I'm assuming it's all free at the moment, will it always be, are ads part of the plan or will premium features be turning up later? [edited to be a little less abrupt]
- jentulman 14y agoIf there hadn't have been some discussion here I'd probably have not dug deeper. Looking at the info page for the desktop app I saw a mention of Cheddar Plus, and not finding a mention anywhere I else I signed up to see if there was more info. The free sign-up appears to let you have unlimited tasks but only organised into 2 lists, and for either $1.99/month or $19.99/year you can get Cheddar Plus for unlimited lists. I'm not saying they're wrong in this approach, but my gut reaction was that it felt 'off'. Thanking on it a bit, if it was me, I'd probably have limited the total number of tasks in the free account, but left the number of lists unlimited. I'd want people to be able to organise lists however they wanted, but find themselves running out of task items. If users have a limited number of lists before they decide to buy a Plus account they can only create muddy generalised lists, rather than specific well organised ones. With users able to create better organised lists the app would hopefully seem much more useful and organised and leave a more positive experience.
- baconhigh 14y agoThis. I had to click through the blog and try really hard to find out WTF the app is/was.
- ApolloRising 14y agoA better description of the app: https://cheddarapp.com/apps https://cheddarapp.com/apps
- stevencorona 14y agoI'm not a Cheddar user, but one thing I love about Sam is that he ships like crazy.
- melvinram 14y agoWhat is Cheddar? Todo list app that syncs across iOS, web and Mac app.
- kickingvegas 14y agoOk, I'll just put this out here. https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas
- gfodor 14y agoFor those wondering, and without comment, this is a release announcement for a orange to-do app with a unique font.
- alpb 14y agoThat's only available to Premium users, too bad. App is incomplete (no editing and archiving) and it wants me to be a premium user. Hah, not in this world.
- iuguy 14y agoI'm not entirely sure what this is, but from what I've seen so far it appears to be wunderlist in orange.