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by welanes 3343 days ago
Don't Microsoft own Wunderlist? My theory is that if you observe a large cluster of developers for long enough, todo apps simply manifest into being.

None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io. Obviously ;)

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It seems they do, but are shutting it down; see related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14154378
None as good as Lanes though, https://lanes.io. Obviously ;)

Hard to verify for me as long as the linked page doesn't work in mobile Firefox ; )

Solid point! I've made the landing page responsive so you can try from mobile now. However, still in the process of moving to mobile so features won't match web version just yet. Usability will be improved in a week or two.
It doesn't seem to work on MacOS / Chrome.

Edit: Actually the UI color was set white on white background and didn't show up. No idea why it was set that way. Quite a dangerous settings.

Looks good, but I'm experiencing a UI bug. I'll just post a screenshot instead of describing it, it's got to do with some font color being the same as the background color. I'm using Firefox in Win10 at work.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/c6XTwLV.png

On first load the font theme should be dark by default. I'll add some validation and an alert if it's set to white and no background is detected.

Thanks.

On OSX Chrome 57 I'm getting this making it mostly unusable for me parse anything. Its going out of the page and without even a scroller http://imgur.com/a/SpgNy
Yikes, my media query game is weak. Will fix.
Trying out lanes now. It looks really nice, but how limited the basic version is is a killer for me, especially when there are so many alternatives.
Hey, maybe we can fix this. What in the basic version would you like to see?
The main one is the recurring tasks. having this would probably be enough for me to start using it full time.

Only allowing one friend seems a bit odd. A social feature without a proper social group. Although I can't see myself using this anyway so I'm not too worried.

I really like the idea of detailed insights and the goals, but these both make sense as paid features. They're the things that would make me pay if they could be proven to be useful, although I'm a sucker for statistics.

On a slightly unrelated note, it would be nice if we could click outside of a modal and have it disappear, rather than having to click X, like many other systems do.

Lanes looks really pretty, I love the design of the timer tab, and I'd really like to start using it. I've just followed you on twitter for any updates.

Click-away to close is added, will be live soon.

The cap on social features is a temp step while I design the process flow, so won't be around for long.

Let me have a think about recurring tasks. Catch me via Twitter or in-app chat if you don't see any move on this in the next week. Cheers.

Nice, it's great to hear a developer responding like this. I've pinned lanes.io in my browser I'll keep checking back.

One last thing, don't suppose you have an api? I'd really like to display my next task on my desktop status bar.

No API just yet as design still in flux, but stay tuned.
Very nice. The design makes me really want to use it. Does it sync calendar and tasks with Exchange/Office365?
No sync with 3rd party APIs just yet, but planned.
I was greeted with:

"Hey undefined. Lanes has been updated. See what's new:"

love this kind of shit haha

Possible solutions:

A. Are you sure your name is not undefined?

B. Perhaps you can change your name to undefined to fix this issue.

:P I'll get on this.

This is built by the Wunderlist people, and that's now dead :(
For real? Wow, that's super lame (he says, while frantically beginning to code an 'import-from-Wunderlist' feature).
I think Microsoft released one for this new thing. I'm not sure if it's cross compatible.
Microsoft's To-Do lets you import from Wunderlist.
Dude this decision was by the Wunderlist team, they're all still at the company.
Can't scroll in Firefox or chrome for mobile
Doesn't work on chrome/android
I cannot scroll on Chrome Android