johnmax

Hey, we are a startup in Germany. When are you going to come to Germany/Europe?

Great, thanks for the numbers and the advice.

Will definitely need to check this out.

I come from the mobile world, and my experience is, from myself and others, that cross-platform solutions always brought more pain than joy.

The latter solutions were great in theory, but created huge problems, when a little bit of a custom behaviour had to be implemented, maybe dependent on the target platform.

Also, when developing natively, there seems to be much more usable open-source code.

Wow, AutoHotkey looks cool - maybe it is nice for doing a first prototype.

Yes, I would check the focused windows, but also would take screenshots to evaluate (with OCR/NLP) whether the email you are writing really relates to your todos.

I would not store those data, neither locally, nor transmit them to my servers, as I am very concerned about security (if my servers get hacked, then I don't want to have anything sensitive on them).

Yes, it's a good point to do such market research. Will need to carefully structure the ads, to not skew the results (e.g. because users from one platform are cheaper per click, and thus will be preferred by Facebook)

Thanks a lot for the numbers.

Do you have any view on whether those percentages still hold, if you only look at (e.g.) startup employees or freelancers or other customer groups, which may probably like such productivity apps?

Interesting - I didn't know about that possibility. Thank you!

Yes, I totally agree, I would first build it for me and work with it.

Right now I use a Mac, but I have used also Windows in the past, and - if I decided to code in Windows - then would switch all my work to a Windows machine, too.

Everything I do is pretty portable between those two platforms, so I don't have any problems with switching between the two.

Thanks a lot for your feedback - eventually, if it is successful, I would launch it for all possible platforms.

So, getting to paying users is not a priority for me at the beginning.

Getting to heavy users definitely is, and discoverability may be better on the Apple App Store I guess, though eventually I would like the product to be so good, that it also gets word-of-mouth attention.

very true, need a study which shows which activities/rules are really effective, including people-were-able-to-stick-to-them

If there was a method to fight such abusive patent trolls, I would immediately donate!

It is the exploitation of a bug in the government source code, and it should be fixed..