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by landongn 4475 days ago
Looks like the vast majority of this is built as a wordpress plugin. You may run into scaling issues due to the massive amounts of overhead within the wp_loop for this to be something sustainable long term.

Looking through the rendered source somewhat confirms this, and puts together a darker picture of sloppy, jQuery riddled javascript flung into whatever context it was needed.

I don't know how this is much better than asana (which is totally free, and quite performant) or tools like Firetask, Things, or any other myriad GTD tools. It's simply slower than those, and that's unfortunate.

Congrats on shipping something. Please take the time to polish it up as your immediate next step.

edit: Yikes. Wordpress isn't as secure as you think it is. things like this:

https://jottlyapp.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=delete&po...

as a direct action within your application isn't such a great idea.

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Wow. Sorry, I can't support any web apps that modifies the wordpress app into something else. It's pretty much like using Flash to power the Login forms on website.

It's an automatic deal breaker for me.

I do hope Jottly reconsiders this and I'll try when this happens.

I wish you guys the best luck on this though.