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Todoist is a huge outlier. They had an early mover advantage (it was one of the first mobile todo apps). A few other Todo players also managed to keep an audien
by herval 1y ago
Todoist is a huge outlier. They had an early mover advantage (it was one of the first mobile todo apps). A few other Todo players also managed to keep an audience, even after Apple and Google rolled their (still half baked in 2025) alternatives - multiple years later.
It’s a very, very different story.
I’m obviously not saying anyone should stop building apps or dismissing this or any other app from being potentially successful. It’s just a fundamentally different scenario than the early days of mobile, particularly for thin LLM wrappers
- _1tem 1y agoWe're in the early days of LLMs and people are making 6 figures with silly AI wrappers while me and you argue on HN. Go out there and ship :)
- herval 1y agoThat's true. I wish I could make good memes or could sell shock-value crap like "cheat on everything" with a straight face... limiting my potential there