![]() That almost turns me into an investor, investing my money into a service and promoting it for free. Plus there’s a real person that would need to write real code to support your service, and possibly provide support / troubleshooting for free. What? Why! So that we can help them reach more users at our expense? We’re not going to make more money out of this you know. I thought it would be cool and convenient to offer this as a sync service in Bus圜al in addition to the half-dozen other services it supports, only to be surprised that they want developers to sign up to a $35/month subscription separately in order to use their API. They charge meeting organizers a monthly subscription for creating / managing meetings, that you and I can join for free. ![]() One weird experience I had recently was with (an app I use frequently). Some of these don’t even make sense though. In order to do anything meaningful, such as faster sync across devices with encryption at rest, support for multiple attachments / cloud storage, shared to-do lists and more, I end up with large overheads / subscriptions that I must pay for monthly in order to provide this functionality. Now a little digression – honestly, as much as I personally dislike subscriptions, I can’t say I haven’t been stumped repeatedly when it comes to working out costs involved in bringing out these “amazing new features” without ending up with a huge-ish bill at my end of the spectrum. It’s still a very long road ahead of me, but I’m steadily making progress. ![]() You guys will love it when it’s ready to ship. The plan is to support a couple more sync options and possibly (and eventually) move away from Dropbox (for various reason). you’re still welcome to use your sync method of choice. The idea is to modernize and fine-tune the app further, without taking away existing features and annoying many. Other than several subtle improvements, the update would include what you would expect: Dark mode, Multi-window support (for iPadOS), several new UI related features and enhancements, improved search, improved drag & drop, faster / better sync options, Reminders import, improved integration with calendaring events (which 2Do already supports, but not that visible on the phone), multiple-attachment support and maybe shared lists (without relying on CalDAV). Unfortunately this fiasco took away 6+ painful months of my time □♂️ This also means I’m now 6 or so months away from releasing a meaningful update for 2Do (other than minor fixes and improvements of course). Considering 2Do (and Bus圜al) don’t charge a monthly subscription, it was imperative that in order to survive against rising competition, and to remain afloat, I focus entirely on Bus圜al to bring it up to speed. We were spending more time replying to angry and confused emails than doing real work. This affected all calendar / task management apps (including Apple’s own Reminders app between versions of macOS), but became a major show stopper for Bus圜al. I had big plans of preparing a major update for 2Do in 2019 to coincide with its 10th anniversary, but as fate would have it, iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 got announced and created a major support nightmare. This happened late in 2017, so it’s been a little while. “How many updates can an app have? Is there really nothing else you do?” □ Well, if it wasn’t for a major update of iOS / macOS / Android each year to be continuously re-modeling and re-writing portions of your app around, perhaps there wouldn’t be many.Īnother cool fact – I’m the proud new owner of Bus圜al & Bus圜ontacts □. It’s surreal to see that it’s still around, and I’m still busy working on the same app day in and day out! It’s a weird feeling, because even family and friends at times can’t believe that’s all I do. I wanted to share a quick update on my current & future plans for 2Do, as well as some other odd bits in general.Ĭool fact – 2Do is going to be 11 years old this fall □.
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