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Good. I think it's an important milestone to build something end to end, no matter how simple or imperfect. On a related note, I was recently looking for a to
by incision 14y ago
Good.
I think it's an important milestone to build something end to end, no matter how simple or imperfect.
On a related note, I was recently looking for a todo app for my phone and found myself wondering how it is that there are so many (hundreds) apps, many of which have their own ardent fans.
When there are so many competing apps and such parity between them, what's the lure for using one over another?
In my case, I tried several and ended up using the one which felt most intuitive to me - the app which allows me to record and organize things the way I think of them with the least effort.
So...I wonder if the relatively low barrier of entry to creating sufficient functionality in such an app has worked with the myriad, individual ways of thinking about time and tasks to feed multiple many successful apps in the same space.
If this is the case, how different would other spaces, which are currently dominated by just a few players look and feel if the mechanics were easier to implement?
- vidarh 14y agoIt's really hard to get a todo app right because the information you juggle is so small, and individual user preferences are so vast that even competing in efficiency with a text editor and a plain text file, or a paper and pen, is hard. So in one way the mechanics are trivial. In another way they're an immense challenge.