Reading all the negative sentiment on HN about Electron beforehand I was a bit concerned about picking it for the desktop app but now I am positively surprised to be honest.
I totally understand that Electron's memory footprint is not acceptable for very small apps that only serve as a utility. For Life though, which is supposed to replace 2-3 other apps, a memory footprint of ~300mb seems fine to me. In-app performance is also good.
I cannot say anything about the iOS Routine app because I have not tried it yet.
Hey Alex, very cool project! What made you pause working on it?
You are making a great point. There is an inherent trade-off between customisability and simplicity. That is not necessarily a problem though because I think there are different target groups depending on where your product is on this scale. I like to think of productivity software as a pair of shoes where everyone has their preferred size and fit. That also allows different tools to successfully co-exist.
The desktop application is Electron-based, so porting it to Windows will be relatively easy. For mobile we go native though and that's why a native Android application will take some longer.
Awesome to see more people work on integrated productivity spaces! I work on something very similar at Life (https://life.so).
Since you decided to include notes into your bundling as well (which I did not so far) I am curious: How do you expect people to switch their note-writing habits from Notion, Roam, etc. to your project? It seemed to me that the notes market is extremely competitive already.
The design looks clean and beautiful. Congratulations to your launch and I will try to sign up for early access later.
I can't get my head around why their documentation is so poor.
They should have all the resources in the world to recruit people that have proven to write good documentation. If open-source projects run by volunteers can have excellent documentation (e.g. Vue), why can't Apple?
Better docs mean a better developer experience which means more people want to (and are able to) develop apps for iOS which increases the value of their platform. It looks like a no-brainer to me to invest some resources into this to improve the current state of affairs.
The arbitrariness with which these companies rule over our digital lives infuriates me more from month to month. We do our best to fight dictators in the physical world but somehow accept them in the digital realm.