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Hog Bay pulls back its iOS applications
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Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM
... according to App Annie, TaskPaper over the past year has ranked on average at around the 750th most downloaded app in the “US - Productivity” category.
Paul Korm wrote:
>In the very crowded market for todo organizers.
Posted by MacSE
Jan 9, 2014 at 05:33 PM
“Jesse Grosjean is an innovative developer, but he doesn’t seem to have the ability to make a plan and stick with it”
I totally agree! Back in 2007 he sold Mori to Apokalypse (!) software ; that was the end of it.
Posted by gunars
Jan 14, 2014 at 09:32 AM
>Regarding the subject of the thread, Taskpaper is now open source.
>Perhaps not all is lost if someone smart picks it up.
>
>http://blog.hogbaysoftware.com
I took a quick look at the github source. It looks like what’s been open-sourced is not the current iOS version, but the code for the original version (1.0?) before the internal synch was replaced by Dropbox. Here’s the description:
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This is the source code for the original TaskPaper for iOS.
It contains the source code for the original TaskPaper for iOS app. I no longer have time to develop this app, but there seem to be other developers who’d like a crack at the code.
It’s fairly old and needs some work in many places. If you really want to spend some time on it I would recommend taking away the custom sync lib and replacing with a Dropbox or iCloud based solution as a start. The existing sync has some hard to track down bugs.
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Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 14, 2014 at 12:57 PM
In fairness, why is that indicative of Grosjean’s faults rather than Apokalypse’s?
Having been a sole proprietor for quite a while, I’d report that it’s not easy to “make a plan and stick to it”. HogBay isn’t Google.
MacSE wrote:
“Jesse Grosjean is an innovative developer, but he doesn’t seem to
>have the ability to make a plan and stick with it”
>
>I totally agree! Back in 2007 he sold Mori to Apokalypse (!) software ;
>that was the end of it.
Posted by steveylang
Jan 23, 2014 at 08:00 PM
I don’t think the lack of progress with Mori was put on Jesse. He was more discussing the seeming habit of Jesse to keep jumping to new (but similar) apps. Mori, TaskPaper, FoldingText, Oak Outliner (?). I’m not really criticizing it, I think there are both pro’s and con’s here.
Paul Korm wrote:
In fairness, why is that indicative of Grosjean’s faults rather than
>Apokalypse’s?
>
>Having been a sole proprietor for quite a while, I’d report that it’s
>not easy to “make a plan and stick to it”. HogBay isn’t Google.
>
>MacSE wrote:
>“Jesse Grosjean is an innovative developer, but he doesn’t seem to
>>have the ability to make a plan and stick with it”
>>
>>I totally agree! Back in 2007 he sold Mori to Apokalypse (!) software ;
>>that was the end of it.