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100% Workflowy copy / clone

(https://workflowy.com/)

Let see how this pan out.

* “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”, Steve Jobs

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Wow. That landing page is bad. I learned that some successful people and businesses use Workflowy, but I didn’t learn what Workflowy is or why I might need it. Is the desktop page better than the mobile one?

Nope, there's nothing on the desktop page either. I have no idea what Workflowy is after visiting the site. There's an email list signup, a login button, and some blurbs about how Twitter and the NYT use the software. But nowhere that explains or shows what the software is.

Edit: Wait! Click on the tiny barely-readable links in the bottom corner of the page (at least on desktop) that say "List Maker" or "Online Notepad" (they both are different URLs, but link to the same page). Then you get an interactive demo.

After looking at that demo, I think Disco is ahead feature- and presentation-wise. I don't see any way to do the status tracking/people pictures/coloring showcased on Disco's landing page in Workflowy.

> Edit: Wait! Click on the tiny barely-readable links in the bottom corner of the page (...)

Yeah, this looks like the author is too happy doing SEO shenanigans and multiple landing pages, while forgetting to make the root page useful...

> Wait! Click on the tiny barely-readable links in the bottom corner of the page (at least on desktop) that say "List Maker" or "Online Notepad" (they both are different URLs, but link to the same page). Then you get an interactive demo.

I saw those links and clicked on one. I thought that it was for a different product!

Another gem: "you're not using chrome, our officially supported mobile browser".

At least that's for a webapp, not for a landing page, but still...

I like Workflowy but the core feature of this app (infinite progress rollups) is not present in Workflowy. I find that Workflowy barely works as a task progress tracker because it doesn't have any real native support for that workflow other than marking items as completed. So besides both apps being outline editors, I feel like you're really overstating this.

<irony>Steve Jobs stole (quoted) that quote from Picasso</irony>

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

How is that an irony?

I'd call it ironic, although I'd find it difficult to define what sort of irony is used. Something to do with it having a dramatic self-referential twist. Maybe this is a US/UK difference in meaning? (I'm from the UK)

It doesn't really seem like a clone. It looks like it is expanding on the core idea but adding deeper project management states. At least, I can't find out how to have the orange green etc. in Workflowey.

WorkFlowy is an awesome app that I would recommend to anyone as an idea/note organizer. DiscoTask is very similar in so far as it is based around nested lists. However, DiscoTask is not a competitor to WorkFlowy; it’s made specifically for bigger teams with many projects and is really meant to (eventually) compete with apps like Trello and Jira.

The page says literally NOTHING about what it is, or does. What?

I built something like this as well called TVSK (ios only): check it out here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tvsk. My app allows you to estimate time of subtasks and see it bubble up through parent projects.

Or like https://dynalist.io/ (which I feel is a superior product than workflowy)

Jesus christ this opt-in landing page is helluva waste of bytes.

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