[bruxis]

The pricing ($12/mo) is rather steep compared to other productivity/planning/todo apps on the market (Trello @ $0, TickTick @ $2.79, Any.do & Todoist @ ~$3, etc.).

While this product looks great and I'd generally think it would be worth a try, that price sets it as a non-starter for me as I don't get the impression that the advantage would be so large compared to other task management tools.

[skinnymuch]

This is Hacker News. Always talking about being against big tech and for the little guy. Trello is owned by a company approaching $50B valuation. The rest of the apps you mentioned are funded or were early on and first to market like Todoist and get pretty big press relative to Marvin or most indie stuff.

Meanwhile Amazing Marvin offers 50%+ off Black Friday deals. Year free trial. And is bootstrapped solely by a husband and wife.

[michaelcampbell]

A good product at a good price is a good product at a good price, developer notwithstanding. If the point of his post was to say he's paying this team or that team because of the team vs. the product, then maybe this would be relevant but otherwise I don't see it.

[skinnymuch]

It’s relevant to a huge vocal majority of HN as I stated the principles of said vocal majority. Thus it’s relevant, no?

[1123581321]

I would think the advantage of a more useful productivity tool would be worth much more than $12/mo. Prices in that software industry are kept low by so much competition, not the value they generate for their users. (And kept low by the difficulty of getting new users to try their systems thoroughly enough to evaluate the advantage.)