Lots of Markdown enthusiasts in the thread... if you want to sync your markdown tasks to Reminders.app please pay me some money for the privilege: https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync
Seems like a nice place to plug my Mac app that syncs your obsidian tasks to Reminders.app: https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync (for me the only thing obsidian is missing on a fresh install).
It’s sandboxed; can’t make network connections and can only read the directory you select. I’m surprised Apple haven’t added OS level functionality to block network connections / folder access for non sandboxed apps, similar to running an un-notarised binary.
Question for the indie developers here; do you get more paying users from Apple devices?
I’ve never even considered publishing apps for other platforms as my gut tells me juice wouldn’t be worth the squeeze. Or to put it another way, I would prefer customers who already proved they have deep(er) pockets and are price insensitive.
Does anyone actually believe this is the case? I use LLMs to ‘write’ code every day, but it’s not the case for me; my job is just as difficult and other duties expand to fill the space left by Claude. Am I just bad at using the tools? Or stupid? Probably both but c’est la vie.
A little Mac app that syncs markdown tasks to Apple Reminders.
Initially I released it for obsidian: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919 but realised it works with just markdown so I rebranded the app, added some new features and increased prices.
The latest version supports dataview tasks format and multiple reminder lists with Routing Rules.
I think the product is pretty much feature complete now so I’ll probably start doing some marketing and move onto coding something new. Sales until now have all been organic.
I built it for myself after I began using Obsidian for day to day note making. A simple idea: get reminders for tasks you create in Obsidian. People seem to like it.
> if they are, in fact, leading the game when it comes to engineering and quality?
I don't think so. It's a very high quality _mass produced_ watch. For example to compare it with cars i'd say it's the equivalent of a Mercedes: a very high end car when compared to all cars in the world, but to enthusiasts a Mercedes is quite ordinary/unremarkable.
Other brands have much higher floors of quality (e.g. Patek Philipe, H. Moser, Voutilainen). To continue the car analogy these are the Ferraris, Lamborghinis etc.
>Another advantage: they almost always appreciate in value over time
On balance this is not true for any non limited brand new watch you buy. On balance models that appreciate tend to be discontinued, or a combination of rare reference/variation/materials.
I agree though, If I had a lot of cash laying about, i'd buy lots and lots of good examples of vintage watches from marquee brands.
or just vibe your own solution :)