mgirkins

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (recently back from living in Berlin and want stability)

Technologies: TypeScript/Javascript, Svelte(kit), Python, SwiftUI, Kotlin, CapacitorJS, Postgresql, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kafka, Pytorch, Tensorflow

Resume/CV: https://maxgirkins.com/cv.pdf

email: https://maxgirkins.com/contact

They appear to work with many institutions in a consultancy capacity so I hope that this will still continue in future even though the museum itself has to close.

Doing it yourself using an app like https://tatask.com will be much more beneficial. You need to know how and why different parts of a project fit together to gain mastery of it. I think that’s lost if AI makes those connections for you.

Full disclosure: I built Tatask years ago

You can break down any project into smaller and smaller sections to whatever degree you like and it makes it super easy to visualise everything and make progress.

It is cool that you're planning on telling the story in churches despite not being religious yourself. I think that's a great place to reach people and I really hope that your message gets across to lots of people in need.

You've definitely made a good impact this year, huge respect.

Thanks for the detailed response, I understand what you mean by not wanting to give your credit card info out. I used to not have that requirement and then was encouraged to do so by someone I respect in business. The logic was that it is a very saturated market and people are prone to trying lots of options without paying them much attention whereas if you've given over your CC details you're more likely to use the trial period fully and therefore get benefits from the app.

I might switch to freemium at some point soon and see how that works for people. Given it's a side project I'm not sure why I'm so concerned about maximising revenue as that's not really the goal!

Thanks for the advice, I hope that you end up using Tatask from here on out. Also if you have an iPhone, the app is in review currently and should be released very soon.

I don’t need it for most personal things like shopping lists etc. but when I do it’s invaluable. I also don’t understand how people work like that!

Dependencies is an interesting idea that i’ve thought about a little bit. From my own experience i’ve found that a tree naturally models this quite well as every task depends on its subtasks, but i can see for more complex workflows that wouldn't work perfectly.

What do you think?

Shockingly there aren't many other options out there for tree-based to-dos so when I posted it to my personal Twitter some people really liked it and started paying for it which turned my weekend project into more of a full-time side project.

As of today, I've been working on it for almost a year on and off and in fact yesterday I submitted my first iOS app to the app store for approval (a quick rejection but easily solvable!).

I think everyone should build their own to-do list app not least because it encourages you to actually use a to-do list app but also because I've learned so many interesting lessons from it along the way. Through this project, I've learned Svelte, iOS development with SwiftUI, lots of things about PWAs, and much more that is not easy to convey about engineering solutions.

You can find it at https://tatask.com if you're interested.

Tatask is an infinitely nestable task management system designed to help break down complex projects into simple, actionable steps.

Task lists don't convey enough information but task trees help with hierarchy and compartmentalisation.

It's still an early stages project as it's only on the web at the moment, but I'm building a native iOS app now and there are many more improvements to come.

Unlike the author I did end up creating my own solution which solves a lot of the problems suggested by using a tree structure instead of a list structure. I have found it works better for my productivity than any other app as it encourages breaking tasks down into smaller chunks which are then easy to complete and build momentum as OP suggests.

It’s available at https://tatask.com

I’m always open to feedback on improving it too.