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by whalesalad 4907 days ago
You're batshit crazy to try selling for this price. The most recent reviews suggest it loses data and isn't very innovative. I tend to agree. It's yet another fish in a sea of todo apps.

Your craftsmanship and attention to detail on the UI and experience are great. I'll give you that. But this is a todo application. Not only that, but it's open source. Hell, I've built it and run the iOS app myself.

The only thing you're selling is 33,000 free users (rather, a list of them, not necessarily 33k active pekple) and a Ruby on Rails app. You also said it requires 4 dynos to operate, plus a Postgres db. I'd imagine the reason you're selling this is that it's costing you $200 per month and not making anywhere near that.

While I'm grateful for everything you have done with cheddar in terms of transparency and sharing with the community: I think you shot yourself in the foot. Reverse engineering the back end (from the app and api docs) and rebranding the iOS app would take me 2 weeks tops.

$125,000? Good luck man. If you can get that.. You're an even better magician than you are a developer.